Studio Basic
netfabb Basic is available to anybody, it is free just like in free beer, and runs on Windows, Linux or Mac. netfabb Basic is not just a viewer, it provides mesh edit, repair and analysis capabilities to everyone already being or aspiring to become part of this fantastic, growing, creative, high-tech industry called Additive Manufacturing, Rapid Prototyping or 3D Printing. netfabb Basic is available and is just one click away. Its compact size of only a few megabytes allows a quick download, an easy installation and the handling of STL and slice files within seconds.
Automatically clearing the bed and starting the next print (Videos+Instructions) - Fully automated production!
So when visiting the huge CNC shop where they build my hotends I saw an awesome auto-feed lathe that you load up with bar stock, it turns a workpiece, parts it off whereupon it falls into a little chute, and it then pops out the back of the lathe into a little basket for collection. The guy running the machine shop says he just fills the machine, presses "go" and goes home for the night! Well, I had massive engineering jealously right there. If he could do it, then why not me on my little RepRap?! Another motivation was that as well as running E3D with David I am also a full time teacher of Engineering at a high school.
Control media using hand gestures with Flutter
Smartphones and tablets are spoiling us for our other devices. It's so easy to swipe, tap, and gesture our way through our mobile lives that we sometimes get frustrated with more traditional tech like laptops. Flutter aims to help solve one small problem in a fun way -- playing and pausing music quickly -- and it works great. Here's how to use it:
Designing a 3d printed EXOSKELETON and how to 'grow' electronic parts on it!
Printing Exo1: How to design your exo-skeleton and how to grow electronic parts on it from leaving the planet on Vimeo. video Designing a 3d printed EXOSKELETON and how to 'grow' electronic parts on it! Originally posted on symbioticcube.com [ David Gann from symbioticcube.com explains a workflow for producing a body fitted exoskeleton from freely available resources. Additionaly a method of growing mounts for electronics on it is explained: Continuing with my thoughts and experiments about bringing together wearable computing and a generative or ‘symbiotic’ design processes, I ended up doing a 12 minutes video tutorial.
Product Pricing
2015 Product Pricing All new license purchases include a 1 year support & maintenance. *After 1 year, this price applies to continue the maintenance agreement. While on maintenance ALL support and upgrades are free. **Upgrade is an option for clients currently not on an active support & maintenance agreement. If purchased clients can get back on support & maintenance for 1 year from date of invoice allowing major and minor updates along with technical assistance from our industry leading support & development teams via phone, email, & forum.
heekscad - Free CAD based on Open CASCADE
There is a fork of HeeksCAD at However, I have been working on this Google Code version quite a lot, recently. I have gone back to my older undo code and HeeksCAD is now quicker and easier for me to understand.
STL Volume Weight Calculator
In two lines: Vital stats for 3D printing objects. Quickly estimate the cost of printing your 3D object! What is STL ? .STL is a file format that is popularly used for representing 3D object information for 3D printing applications.
Solid Iris Technologies
It seems like yesterday, when we started developing a small freeware rendering application with a very weird name, a pure invention, Kerkythea. The renderer back at that time was rather simple with respect to the interface and it was mainly a photon mapping based renderer. Even with this - rather primitive - form though, it has strong supporters and the renderer is embraced by SketchUp community.
