Want to Know More About How 3D Printing Can Help You? Join the 3DP ACADEMY!
Materialise regularly hosts sessions for people who want to learn more about key 3D printing topics in a hands-on environment: we call it 3DP ACADEMY. To Materialise, it’s an integral part of the...
View Article3DPrintCloud Now on Onshape’s App Store – The World’s First Full-Cloud 3D CAD...
Onshape claims the world’s first and only fully-cloud-based 3D CAD system, which allows a group of people to work on a single CAD document simultaneously, and seamlessly integrates their edits while...
View ArticleRadiologists Unite at RSNA to Explore the Next Imaging Modality – 3D Printing
Over 45,000 attendees gathered in Chicago to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). The conference brought together radiology professionals for education...
View ArticleBenin Summer School 2015: What We Learned from Organizing a Scholarship...
In early August, I reached Benin with my partner Lotte, Materialise CEO Fried Vancraen and Executive Vice President Hilde Ingelaere. The goal for the next month was to conduct a summer school at the...
View ArticleBraveheart: How Mayo Clinic Put Baby Kieran’s Heart Back into Her Chest
When Caitlin Veitz was 20 weeks pregnant, the happy expectation surrounding her first ultrasound quickly turned into fear and anguish: her baby daughter’s heart was growing outside of the chest wall....
View ArticleLet There Be LIGHT, Said Fraunhofer ILT: A Mammoth Print Job for...
How do you create a showstopper display for an exhibition about lasers? You let there be LIGHT! For the LASER World of Photonics 2015 exhibition, the Fraunhofer Institute of Laser Technology ILT wanted...
View ArticleStaff Picks: The Top 5 Blog Stories of 2015!
It’s been a year of amazing innovation and inspiration. Behind it all is the support and ingenuity of truly talented and compassionate people: many of them working right here at Materialise. We try to...
View ArticleCharlotte’s Internship at Materialise: Leading the Baobab Express
You’ve heard the cliché of the coveted internship that turns out to actually be merely coffee-bringing and document-printing with a few hours of uninspired sitting at a desk. Charlotte’s internship,...
View ArticleMy Experience of Formnext and Materialise HQ: A Visit from South Korea
Formnext is an innovative and international exhibition platform for additive technologies, tool-making, and other sectors of product development and manufacturing. The different booths showcase what’s...
View ArticleTheoretical Physicist 3D Prints a Ring Based on the Topography of the Planet...
Dr. Casey Handmer is a theoretical physicist passionate about 3D Printing, technology and space. Together with our consumer printing service, i.materialise, he has managed to combine those three...
View ArticleThe Opening of Our Metal Facility in Bremen: Retracing the Steps of the Past
In 1988, a young engineer named Fried Vancraen visited a research facility in Bremen Germany, and while there, saw one of the first 3D printers up and running in Europe. For the entire drive back to...
View ArticleUnfold at Milan Design Week 2016: When Support Structure Becomes Art
Antwerp-based design studio Unfold is constantly pushing the boundaries of how design intersects with modern digital manufacturing. For Milan Design Week 2016, they participated in the Belgian Matters...
View ArticleCelebrating Ten Years of Inspiration with the Innovation Prize
At Materialise, innovation has always been one of the strongest foundations of our company culture. We like to encourage the growth and input of our employees, because we know that a company is only as...
View ArticleIn Search of a Golden Voice: Using 3D Modeling to Improve Phonosurgery in...
Gender reassignment surgery has come a long way since Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld performed some of the world’s first male-to-female operations in Berlin in the 1930’s. Transsexual men and women are able to...
View Article5 Things You Need to Consider when 3D Printing Wearables
Far from its days as a niche technology, 3D Printing now accounts for more than 90% of the world’s in-ear hearing aids: and that’s just one example of how 3D Printing is making waves in the...
View ArticleMaterialise Featured in Manus x Machina: The Spring 2016 Exhibition at the...
Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology | Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is opening the doors to its 2016...
View ArticleA Closer Look at the Manus x Machina Dresses 3D Printed by Materialise
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has finally opened the doors to its latest exhibition: Manus x Machina, the Costume Institute’s new tour de force curated by Andrew Bolton. The exhibition...
View ArticleCapturing the Perfect Panorama with Tom Shot 360
Thomas Huang is the intrepid explorer behind Tom Shot 360, a company that sells lightweight panoramic camera heads printed in 3D by Materialise. Thomas started designing the parts himself when faced...
View ArticleCubetto Playset gets the Materialise Design & Engineering Treatment
When Primo came to Materialise they had already identified 3D Printing as the ideal manufacturing method for the first 650 runs of the Cubetto Playset. What they went on to discover was the value you...
View ArticleWe Introduced Our Software Suite at RAPID!
From 16 to 19 May, Materialise was present at RAPID, one of the largest Additive Manufacturing events in North America. There we gave presentations about 3D Printing for both medical and industrial...
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