3D Systems Names Special 3D Design Challenge Winners

• Students challenged to express their bold ideas through 3D printing within the Future New category
• 3DS rewards 3 students with $1,000 scholarship or Cube^® 3D printer

 

Release Date: 

Monday, March 31, 2014 – 08:31

ROCK HILL, South Carolina – March 31, 2014 – 3D Systems  (NYSE:DDD) today announced the three winners of the 3D Design Award for the 2014 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The 3D Design Award, which exemplifies the Scholastic Award’s “Future New” category, inspires students to use 3D design and printing tools to create innovative art. The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious award and recognition program for creative students in grades 7–12, and this year received more then 255,000 submissions for the program’s 28 categories, which include everything from Future New, comic art, video game design and flash fiction to the more traditional mediums of poetry and sculpture.

The “Future New” category evaluates the originality, technical skill, and the emergence of personal vision or voice through the 3D printed designs. The winners are offered a choice between a $1,000 scholarship or their own Cube^® home 3D printer.

 

The winners of the 2014 Future New 3D Design Award are:

 

TJ Gascho, 10th Grade, California

TJ Gascho submitted “Egg-scape” using the 3D animation program Blender. Egg-scape portrays an egg yolk as a creature trying to escape from the egg whites representing a “human, born into this word in a bad environment, and though it tries to escape, it never can…”

 

Eric Voorhis, 12th Grade, Florida

Eric Voorhis created “Visual Representations of Audio Files” by various musical artists using 3D printing software. He converted mp3 music into a visual 2D plane, presenting a final image containing millions of pixels composed into static white noise. His three 3D static blocks represent the complexity of sound as an image.

 

Elbert Han, 12th Grade, Michigan

Elbert Han designed “Metamorphosis,” a multipurpose accessory that converts from a set of two cufflinks to a cuff bracelet via a system of hinging magnets. The goal of this piece is to create a versatile accessory that could transition from a formal to casual setting, giving the wearer the freedom to sport this accessory regardless of the situation in which they find themselves.

 

“This year’s award winners are a testament to the art of the possible, with 3D design and printing tools. Together with the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers we are nurturing a new kind of digital literacy with real world implications,” said Leanne Gluck, Director of Social Impact, 3DS. “Scholastic Art & Writing Award winners give teachers, students and parents reason to be optimistic that these skills are relatively quick to learn and even quicker to implement.”

 

3DS has partnered with the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the nonprofit presenter of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, since 2012 with a joint mission to provide 21^st century tools of expression and to challenge today’s students and tomorrow’s artists, designers, entrepreneurs and leaders to think and create in new, bold directions. 3DS provides free access to its consumer design tools for students to create their work in 3D.

 

“The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards were created with a mission to recognize creative teens and show their work to the world, proving they are sophisticated young artists in their own right,” noted Virginia McEnerney, Executive Director of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. “The works that students share with us in the Future New category that are designed with free resources provided by 3D Systems are wonderful examples of the innovative thinking that our country needs in future leaders of all industries.”

 

To learn more about 3DS’ commitment to education and providing today’s students with tomorrow’s technology, visitwww.cubify.com/education.

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Objex Unlimited

36 Fieldway Road,

Toronto, Ontario M8Z 3L2

 

Objex Unlimited is a 3D printing studio located in Toronto.  We take pride in all of our products and services, offering the newest, and highest quality methods of production. With a highly skilled team of trained individuals we have no doubt that we can offer your business alternatives, which will save you work, time, and money. We use advanced 3D Printing Technology to produce Rapid Prototypes and highly detailed Concept Models directly from CAD Drawings. We can bring your CAD designs to life by creating real parts you can use and models that you can hold in your hand. Our commitment to you is to deliver in DAYS. Don’t let prototype production hold up your design cycle. Objex Unlimited is an Authorized Distributor of Artec 3D Scanners and 3D Systems Professional 3D Printers.

 

Contact Information

Phone: 416-233-7165

Email: sales@objexunlimited.com

Monday-Friday 10am-6pm EST

 

O.D.D.Shoppe 3D Printing Boutique

The O.D.D.Shoppe is bringing 3D printed O.D.D.Goods to your home. These O.D.D.Goods are from the realms of artistic, geeky, stylish, and beauty. Some of their most successful products include their beautiful, stylish, and precious metal hollow D20s (20-sided die) and LifeCount (the Magic Gathering life counter). They also offer custom board game pieces and costume props.

The O.D.D.Shoppe is always making new wonderful goods and loves to bring people’s imagination to life through 3D printing. They would love to hear what goods you think they should create next and they take any requests to design the very best O.D.D.Goods for you!

“We at O.D.D.Shoppe have all come from a broad range of industries, from jewelry, VFX, illustration, story boarding, fashion design, sculpture, game design, print making and many more. What unites us all is our love of art and our passion for 3D printing and its potential to bring those lovingly crafted digital creations to the real world. But, for us it is more than just pressing the print button. We take those extra careful steps to insure our product has vivid and beautiful color, fantastic production value, and is more than something you can just print at home. To us, 3D printing is an art. And it like any other medium has its own challenges, and techniques to be mastered. Frequently we have been told that no one has seen anything like what we’ve made before, and we want to continue with that tradition. So to all those would be fans who are anxious and excited to bring their digital world to the real world, join us for this amazing ride ahead!”

 

O.D.D.Shoppe is currently selling and operating out of Etsy. You can find the OD.D.Shoppe store at https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/ODDStore. Check them out today and like their Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/oddshoppe!

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Objex Unlimited

36 Fieldway Road,

Toronto, Ontario M8Z 3L2

 

Objex Unlimited is a 3D printing studio located in Toronto.  We take pride in all of our products and services, offering the newest, and highest quality methods of production. With a highly skilled team of trained individuals we have no doubt that we can offer your business alternatives, which will save you work, time, and money. We use advanced 3D Printing Technology to produce Rapid Prototypes and highly detailed Concept Models directly from CAD Drawings. We can bring your CAD designs to life by creating real parts you can use and models that you can hold in your hand. Our commitment to you is to deliver in DAYS. Don’t let prototype production hold up your design cycle. Objex Unlimited is an Authorized Distributor of Artec 3D Scanners and 3D Systems Professional 3D Printers.

 

Contact Information

Phone: 416-233-7165

Email: sales@objexunlimited.com

Monday-Friday 10am-6pm EST

 

3DS Projet 3510 Dental Printer Now Prints From 3Shape Implant Studio |

 

• 3Shape Implant Studio easily integrates with 3DS’ ProJet 3510 and VisiJet Stoneplast for the ultimate distributed dental manufacturing solution

 

Release Date: 

Tuesday, March 25, 2014 – 16:05

ROCK HILL, South Carolina – March 25, 2014 – 3D Systems  (NYSE:DDD) today announced that its ProJet^® 3510 MP 3D printer and proprietary VisiJet^® Stoneplast dental materials are now also available for use with3Shape Implant Studio™, allowing dental professionals to output accurate and fully functional dental implant drill guides that are designed using the 3Shape Implant Studio software. Implant Studio is 3Shape’s newest software product for implant planning and surgical guide design. 3Shape Implant Studio will be launched in the EU countries in April 2014. Implant Studio is not available for sale in the US.

The ProJet 3510 MP uses 3DS’ proprietary Stoneplast dental material in a transparent or opaque build mode. The printed surgical guides are based on ready-to-print, Implant Studio-exported STL models to produce accurate, fully functional surgical guides.

 

“3D Systems’ ProJet 3510 MP and Stoneplast materials produce accurate prints and easily integrate with our software for the ultimate distributed manufacturing solution,” said Rune Fisker, VP Product Strategy, 3Shape. “This digital workflow with 3D printing integration brings the dental field a highly precise and affordable solution.”

 

“We are very pleased to offer our dental lab customers a proven solution for manufacturing drill guides using 3Shape’s new Implant Studio software, a solution that combines the latest products from two leading providers forming a powerful and affordable manufacturing tool,” said Lee Dockstader, VP Business Development, 3DS.

 

For complete product information on the ProJet 3510 MP dental printers, visit http://www.3dsystems.com/.

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Objex Unlimited

36 Fieldway Road,

Toronto, Ontario M8Z 3L2

 

Objex Unlimited is a 3D printing studio located in Toronto.  We take pride in all of our products and services, offering the newest, and highest quality methods of production. With a highly skilled team of trained individuals we have no doubt that we can offer your business alternatives, which will save you work, time, and money. We use advanced 3D Printing Technology to produce Rapid Prototypes and highly detailed Concept Models directly from CAD Drawings. We can bring your CAD designs to life by creating real parts you can use and models that you can hold in your hand. Our commitment to you is to deliver in DAYS. Don’t let prototype production hold up your design cycle. Objex Unlimited is an Authorized Distributor of Artec 3D Scanners and 3D Systems Professional 3D Printers.

 

Contact Information

Phone: 416-233-7165

Email: sales@objexunlimited.com

Monday-Friday 10am-6pm EST

Mykita Glasses “Manufactory” Makes State-of-the-Art Designs with SLS from 3D Systems

 

Monday, March 24, 2014 – 09:44

There are glasses and then there are Mykitas. Each model of beautifully crafted Mykita glasses has a style and look all its own, and even a name (think Chester, Owen, Aretha and Faye) that makes each frame its own character.

 

This “manufactory” embodies the spirit of the new manufacturing revolution as they combine “precision craftsmanship with new technologies.” One of these new technologies is SLS 3D printing from 3D Systems, which Mykita uses to produce its Mykita Mylon line of sunglasses. These glasses boast “individual adjustability” with a sense of style for the mountaineer or the urban hiker, and the SLS system allows Mykita to produce the frames in virtually any geometrical configuration. (Image via mykita.com)

 

Mykita has already won an iF material award and a Red Dot design award for the manufacturing process of the Mylon collection and the product design, respectively.

 

Click here to see how Mykita creates its Mylon collection.

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Objex Unlimited

36 Fieldway Road,

Toronto, Ontario M8Z 3L2

 

Objex Unlimited is a 3D printing studio located in Toronto.  We take pride in all of our products and services, offering the newest, and highest quality methods of production. With a highly skilled team of trained individuals we have no doubt that we can offer your business alternatives, which will save you work, time, and money. We use advanced 3D Printing Technology to produce Rapid Prototypes and highly detailed Concept Models directly from CAD Drawings. We can bring your CAD designs to life by creating real parts you can use and models that you can hold in your hand. Our commitment to you is to deliver in DAYS. Don’t let prototype production hold up your design cycle. Objex Unlimited is an Authorized Distributor of Artec 3D Scanners and 3D Systems Professional 3D Printers.

 

Contact Information

Phone: 416-233-7165

Email: sales@objexunlimited.com

Monday-Friday 10am-6pm EST