Delays along the supply chain have the same effect on manufacturing as lane closings on highways. Nowhere is this more apparent than in quality inspection. “Better processes in design, analysis,…
Case Studies by Industry
Aerospace
Imagine if you could increase your productivity by automating the process of scanning parts, analyzing them for accuracy, and creating detailed reports of the findings. Well, Level 3 Inspection has…
It’s not unusual for enthusiasts of vintage aircraft to go down to their local hobby store and buy a 1:72 scale model fighter to glue together. But very few, like…
Imagine a submarine floating through the sky, and you’ll essentially have an airship; a.k.a., a blimp. Strange but true: beyond a physical likeness, the design and mechanical features of a…
Space travel will always be a gamble, but new approaches to safety such as 3D reverse engineering and inspection are tilting the odds overwhelmingly in NASA’s favor. “As taxpayers, you…
Rus Emerick, Global Process Owner for 3D Imaging at Schneider Electric, spends a lot of time thinking about tolerances. Starting with tolerances of individual parts, his brain moves swiftly on…
Architecture
Buildings designed today may not open for a decade, so architects make models to help people understand the future. Before presenting ideas to the clients, governments, and communities who must…
Project Title 1:2000 Context Model – Metung, East Gippsland Project Scope Neil architecture was commissioned to design and manufacture a large scale context model for Metung which is in East…
Arts
Engineering
Display for road wheels at his business Cycles Galleria; 3D printing to the rescue! Here’s a render of the models… Visit Rod Laird’s Thingiverse collection here Thingiverse
Company: Pankl Racing Systems Industry: Manufacturing Profile: Pankl Racing Systems, a subsidiary of KTM Industries, specializes in developing and manufacturing engine and drivetrain components for racing cars, high performance vehicles,…
Nika Holding is a manufacturer of automotive accessories. The company has been in the automotive accessories market for about 2 years, engaged in production of floor mats for trunks and…
Artec scanners are used by Hyundai in perceived quality for scanning automobile seats. The Artec L scanner is used to create a 3D model of a car seat. It is…
The Vladimir Auto Specialty Center began operating in 2003. The company specializes in exclusive work on automotive customizing. They create truly unique designs of interiors and convert large off-road vehicles…
This started out as a job for Artec. We were asked to scan parts of a car for our client. When we saw the minivan, we fell in love with…
A compressor 3D scanned with Artec Space Spider is reverse engineered in 3D Systems’ Geomagic Design X.
Entertainment
Main Road|Post, a visual effects production studio, was set up in 2006. The studio worked on visual effects for well-known movies and series like Wanted, The Inhabited Island, The Admiral,…
2h3D Ltd, based near the Pinewood and Shepperton Studios in the UK, has a film and TV credit list stretching back 15 years. Their work includes Hollywood blockbusters and award-winning…
Helen Yentus, the art director of Riverhead Books, designed two covers for Chang-rae Lee’s new novel, “On Such a Full Sea,” which is being published today. The regular hardcover has…
Project Title A unique trophy for a unique charity event Project Scope BSX is a small organisation who run an annual charity BMX event that raises much needed funds primarily for…
Fashion
Anna Wilhelmi, a Berlin fashion designer aspired to create an innovative fashion collection. The designer found inspiration for her clothing line in oversized, padded uniforms of American football players. The…
Does mankind’s destiny lie in the stars? Artist Carrie Mae Rose thinks so. Her show, “Light As a Feather” at New York City’s Eyebeam Gallery, exhibited Carrie Mae’s fashion concepts…
Ica Paru, an accessories designer and model, is the first person to wear the Bristle Dress from Francis Bitonti Studio. Paru put it on a couple of weeks ago, at…
Sebastian Errazuriz, a Chilean artist who works in Brooklyn, NY, designed and made “12 Shoes for 12 Lovers” on a MakerBot Replicator 2X Experimental 3D Printer. Errazuriz talks about his…
Forensics
The official distributor for Artec in China, Beijing Coase Instrument Company Limited, recently participated in a joint project of the police for the city of Zhoukou, located in Henan province,…
Heritage
Hidden inside his brightly decorated coffin, the face of Nesperennub, priest of Karnak, has remained a mystery for thousands of years. The question of what this mummified corpse looked like…
The year was 1812. Napoleon invaded Russia and was getting dangerously close to Moscow. The last stance for the city was the infamous battle of Borodino which took place on…
Ogham stones are among Ireland’s most remarkable national treasures. These perpendicular-cut stones bear inscriptions in the unique Irish Ogham alphabet, using a system of notches and horizontal or diagonal lines/scores…
Who would believe some two to three years ago that there will be a consumer market of 3D models suitable for 3D printing? A small company from Sofia, Threeding, has…
Graham Combines Art & 3D Reverse Engineering Technology to Create “Majestic” Virgin Mary for New LA Cathedral The Virgin Mary that presides over all who enter the Cathedral of Our…
Medical
This company is one of the leaders in providing O&P services and full solutions to doctors around the world. Their Workflow: A patient comes to the clinic and it is…
RSI’s customer Johannes Carstens, the owner of SC Medical Supply Store, has been using the Artec MH scanner for about 2 ½ years already. He recently decided to add an…
When Richard Van As, a woodworker in South Africa, decided to make a set of mechanical fingers, it wasn’t just for fun. He’d lost four of the fingers on his…
Steven Jaworski, a biomedical technician, had to replace so many cables that monitor patients’ vital signs that he ordered cable tethers from a medical supplier for $24.50 per cable, or…
Artec 3D Scanner delivers information on the shape of an object within a matter of seconds. As a result, our devices are successfully used whenever there is a need for…
A few years ago, Kersten Revalidatietechniek, a Dutch manufacturer of customized products for the disabled decided to expand its business. Kersten was already making high-quality products which allowed persons with…
Product Design
After more than a century in the business and a history of turning out the best performing running shoes in the world, it would be an understatement to say the…
Blueprinter visited Lars Lund Jorgensen, who is a Toolmaker at Oticon A/S, a hearing aid maker. Full Transcript “We produce hearing aids here at Oticon, We make between 5,000 and…
Recently, Artec employees visited NPP Zvezda, a unique enterprise in Russia, which produces individual life-support systems for pilots and astronauts. The task was to scan a Sokol-KV-2 spacesuit, which astronauts…
Hooke Audio envisions a hi-fi future–achieved by using binaural recording technologies that seep into our everyday lives, aiming for a collective desire for better sound quality. Anthony, CEO of Hooke…
Bill Phelps has a home office in Tarrytown, NY, a 35-minute train ride from midtown Manhattan. It occupies 100 square feet between the ground floor pantry and a playroom. There…
Once GE FirstBuild added MakerBot® Replicator® 3D Printers to their toolkit, they were able to prototype and test the next generation of smart home appliances in real time. In the…
MakerBot® collaborated with design teams from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia to create the Trellis Collection, a set of branded table accessories that customers can download from the MakerBot Digital Store:…
Five years ago, Ian Bernstein was working at a robotics company and dreaming of controlling robots with his smartphone. “Back in 2009, nobody was doing it,” says Bernstein, a cofounder…
Kisi is a startup that turns your smartphone into a keycard and lets you send keys over email with more security and flexibility than, say, leaving a spare key under…
Chris Milnes had never 3D printed anything when he invented an iPhone accessory he desperately needed. While the Square credit card reader makes his life easier as a business owner,…
Here’s a rad example of ingenuity helped by a MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer! Geoff Larson and Ben Forman created the ZBoard, an electric skateboard by Intuitive Motion Inc.,…
Jim Rouse and his team at Boudlo Forge Ltd in Guernsey, have created print samples to test in underwater atmospheres. Using NinjaFlex, they printed a simple parametric knurled ring that…
Schools
Lauriston Girls’ School’s FabLab@School officially opened in April 2014. In a collaborative partnership with Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, Lauriston is the first school in Australia to launch its…
Vinny Garrison is the technology teacher and racing commissioner at A. MacArthur Barr Middle School, in Nanuet, NY. Over the course of seven weeks, each eighth grader will shape a…
Brooklyn Technical High School, as teacher Tom Curanovic says, “is a pretty amazing place.” Brooklyn Tech, which counts two Nobel Prize winners among its alumni, is the largest specialized…
A class of Browning eighth-graders, who designed their own Lego-style pieces, learns how to print them on a MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer. When the eighth-grade boys finish the…
Leslie Perry at Whitby School in Greenwich, CT uses MakerBot® Replicator® Desktop 3D Printers in the school’s Design Technology classroom to spark an interest in 3D printing and design and…
Universities
The digital thread is alive and well at the University of South Florida’s Alliance for Integrated Spatial Technologies (AIST). See how AIST uses 3D Systems’ CubePro® 3D printer, Sense® and…
3D scanning and Geomagic Studio 3D imaging/reverse engineering software is being used by the University of Manchester to enable the 3D modeling of both pre-historic and modern-day animals and the…
Florida Polytechnic University uses a MakerBot Innovation Center to introduce its students, faculty, and the surrounding community to hands-on STEM learning and applied research through 3D printing. The MakerBot Innovation…
For a course at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture, two undergraduates designed an artificial iceberg that is also a floating resort. The cooling system that generates the ice gives…
The State University of New York at New Paltz is home to the world’s first MakerBot Innovation Center: a ground-floor room with 30 MakerBot Replicator 3D Printers. “3D printing is…
We recently upgraded the 3D printing lab in the Advanced Manufacturing Precinct at RMIT University here in Melbourne. Eight Makerbots Replicator 2’s and two Replicator 2X‘s have replaced their lab…
