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According to the International Data Corporation (ID

C) the 3D printed m

arket is expected to nearly double w

ithin five years. Compared to traditional m

anufacturing techniques, the technology m

akes it much easier, w

ithout an added cost to: create com

plex shapes, customize each object of a serie, and get a fast turn-around.

These advantages are even greater with the use of 3D

printing service: it allows to

get the advantages of the technology withou having to deal w

ith the complexity of

the machines.

These characteristics make 3D

printing an evident choice for prototyping, product developm

ent, and small series, especially for sm

all companies that can’t afford to

invest into injection modeling or spend w

eeks and months on developing an object.

How

ever, since it’s a fairly new technology, it’s som

etimes difficult to im

agine what

actually is made and can be m

ade using a 3D printing service. This is w

hy we com

bined this Top 21 Custom

er stories, of the past 3 years: we are very lucky to have diverse and

inspiring customers, w

ho might inspire the readers of this ebook to launch their ow

n 3D

printed project!

Whether you are already experienced w

ith digital manufacturing, or if you are about to

launch your own product, learn how

entrepreneurs, comm

unication teams, researchers,

industrial manufacturers and artists have already used 3D

printing successfully, in areas as diverse as drones, robotics, m

edical research, the internet of things, fashion, education, architecture and transportation!

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rones, Ai, Robotics & next-gen e-sports

Nano-Racing

The Accessible 3D Printed D

rone

Jarriquez Your drone go w

here humans can’t

Blue Robotics Subm

arines Drones splashing Industry

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IMS Research

Making an im

pact in Electromagnetism

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3D Printed tools for surgery

GaleFirst Aid Kit U

pgrade

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Poppy The 3D

printed Open-Source Robot

FendyFurther O

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Ikilock The Sm

art Prototyped Lock

My D

riving Pal Tracker for Privacy &

Peace of Mind

Mag Target

Stay Carbon Charged

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Lowe’s

3D Printing Space for a H

ardware Store

Kiwatch

Embelish your Security Cam

era

SkôdaLittle Fabias

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Virus Collection3D

P Line for Consumer Electronic Show

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ichel CornelissenGlasses D

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L’Illiade du Patrimoine

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Like the 3D Printing Industy, the D

rone industry is growing fastly. According to estim

ates from

research firm M

arkets and Markets, the global drone m

arket will grow

annually by 32% betw

een 2015 and 2020, into a $5.6 billion industry! And like 3D

printing, drones have existed for decades and have only recently bloom

ed in reach and uses. Originally drones w

ere mostly used for m

ilitary purposes. Their uses now

tend to widen and reach the general public, in particular through the

increased popularity of drone racing.

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Drone racing only appeared in 2014, and already gathers several thousand practicioners and

hundreds of professional competitions. It’s a fascinating cultural phenom

enon, which takes

e-sports into real life.

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With various uses and an ever m

ore demanding audience, drone m

akers are looking for a fast and easy w

ay to prototype, and solutions to create light, strong objects. That’s why 3D

printing is becom

ing a solution, for prototyping, but also production!

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WH

AT IS UV

IFY ?

UVify is an Am

erican tech company (their H

Qs are in San Jose) w

ith Korean roots. They first got funding from

robotics: they were building AI, robotics

and autonomous system

s - self-driving cars, for instance. They then shifted, to seize the opportunity of drone racing.

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AT’S SPECIA

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ACO

, TH

E DR

ON

E CREAT

ED B

Y UV

IFY?

Draco w

ill be sold along with replacem

ent and upgrade components, as

a standalone unit with nylon or carbon fiber arm

s, in a variety of bundled configurations

with

radio transm

itters, goggles,

radio controls,

and/or carrying packs. As drone racing is a very recent phenom

enon, pilots often create their drone them

selves, using a selection of frames and com

ponents from

various manufacturers. W

hat UVify offers is an out-of-the-box solution

that is competitive in term

s of performance, race consistency, custom

er experience, product, design, and technology. O

n top of that, there is their proprietary m

achine vision technology, called SLAM.

“Drones, AI, robotics, and next-generation eSports in a fast-clim

bing company”

UVify, created in 2015, has decided in 2016 to apply their AI and machine

vision expertise to creating high-quality racing drones. Their Head of Business

Developm

ent, Robert Cheek, talked with us about their prototyping and

production experience with our online 3D printing service.

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ext-Gen E-Sports

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Drone or First-person View

(FPV) racing is the fastest-growing sport

in history. According to estimates from

research firm M

arkets and M

arkets, the global drone market w

ill grow annually by 32%

between

2015 and 2020 into a $5.6 billion industry. Drone racing is going to be

a very interesting cultural phenomenon to w

atch: it’s bringing video gam

es into real life, and might becom

e a symbol of the generational

cultural shift that is taking place today.

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AVE FO

R UV

IFY?

UVify iterates at a very fast pace, creating at least a new

prototype every w

eek, and in total more than 80 iterations so far. They’re testing

aerodynamics,

performance

and design:

since drone

racing is

a spectator sport, w

hich will be practiced and w

atched: the drones have to be fast and look good. For all these iterations, the rapidity and price efficiency of a 3D

printing service are essential.

UVify also uses 3D

printing for their fully functioning drones: those being

flied in

drone races

right now

w

ere m

anufactured using

Sculpteo’s services. When they go into our production phase, they’ll

create small production runs to test the viabilities of different options,

which m

eans they’ll still use 3D printing to rem

ain cost-efficient.

Another key aspect with regards to the prototyping process has been

the use of Solidwork sim

ulation tools. This was particularly useful in

order to adapt the parts to the motors’ pow

er. Many tests w

ere made

directly with professional and sem

i-professional pilots, as well as

hobbyist clients.

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m le

ft to rig

ht: P

aul b

aur, U

vify

Pilo

t, Robert C

heek

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ano Drones are sm

all in size, but also in price! This means they m

ake drone racing accessible to all, w

ithout comprom

ising on quality. They are also very easy to use thanks to in-house created flight profiles. Finally, they are the first drones to be fully assem

bled by interlocking: no screw, no

welding. This is a great advantage for custom

izaion.

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S BEEN

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NO

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Fabien and Charles, two of the founders, have a good m

astery of 3D printing,

they started using it at the very beginning, when the Stratasys patents

became public in 2009.

They consider it’s essential to master 3D

printing technologies to make the

most of their prototyping phase. That’s w

hy they worked w

ith FDM

(fused deposition m

odeling), SLA (stereolithography) as well as SLS (selective laser

sintering) through Sculpteo’s online service.

Another key aspect with regards to the prototyping process has been the

use of Solidwork sim

ulation tools. This was particularly useful in order to

adapt the parts to the motors’ pow

er. Many tests w

ere made directly w

ith professional and sem

i-professional pilots, as well as hobbyist clients.

Nano-Racing is a startup launched in 2015, w

hich makes m

ini 3D printed racing drones. It is on a quest to dem

ocratize imm

ersion drone racing, a sport that has been gaining popularity since 2014. Their drones are partly realized through our online 3D printing service. Charles Venayre, co-founder of this hardw

are & softw

are startup, was kind enough to tell us about his experience.

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According to Charles, 3D printing isn’t just for prototyping. N

ow that

that the team is heading tow

ards production in larger series, they will

offer two options: a product done through injection m

olding, and a “hacking kit” that w

ill make the drone m

ore powerful, w

ith 3D printed

parts. “ We o

ffer p

opula

r tools

thro

ugh o

ur m

obile

app, w

hic

h

simplify configuration greatly. You can, for exam

ple, choose a “drone personality” using pre-set flying m

odes (note that each pilot has their ow

n specific choice of settings and way

of flying). “

“ Our o

ther g

reat p

artic

ula

rity is

that o

ur d

rone is

the o

nly

one in

the w

orld

to b

e e

ntire

ly a

ssem

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by interlock jjing: no screw, no w

elding. This a key advanta

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r custo

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WH

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RIQ

UEZ ?

Jarriquez w

as been

created by

Five Engineering

students as

a fully

autonomous exploration drone. It is capable of generating m

aps, without

light constraints in hostile or inaccessible areas for humans. D

uring its m

issions, it is also able to establish high-quality 3D plans that can be used

for simulations.

WH

AT IS IT USED

FOR ?

Jarriquez is fit for specific tasks such as exploring buildings architecture, bridges, dam

s, tunnels, sewers. It can be used to m

ap historical sites, as well

as to also operate recognition of damaged land to enable rescue forces to

prepare their action plan more efficiently.

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The team decided to go on w

ith a quadcopter geometry for its drone. They

used the power of 3D

printing to develop one of the key components of

their drone. The goal was to have an aircraft that can carry a little over 1

kilogram of payload, especially able to em

bark a LIDAR Sensor that w

ould offer the drone the possibility to detect elem

ents that are meters aw

ay. This particular part w

as critical. To adapt the sensor on the drone, the team

Making drones is becom

ing more and m

ore about the features. With aircraft

capable of flying on long distances, at incredible heights and always carrying

more loads, the real deal is to have drones that can take care of specific tasks

for precise applications. The team behind Jarriquez decided to build a drone

that can generate 3D maps on the go so that it’s able to find its w

ay with

minim

al human intervention. JARRIQ

UEZ

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decided to materialize the part they design w

ith 3D printing.

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ATIO

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For the LIDAR sensor, it w

as critical that the part could offer the largest possible detection by not blocking the laser in any w

ay. While

dealing with the sensor through using Sculpteo’s 3D

printing device, Jarriquez found out that the geom

etry of the design wasn’t optim

al and that the m

aterial itself should be stronger. For their second 3D

print, the team turned to w

hite polyamide.

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AT AR

E 3D P

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AL A

DVA

NTA

GES

All in all, most of the com

ponents were picked because they w

ere available right aw

ay and easy to find. What 3D

printing changed for the team

is that when a solution didn’t already existed for them

, it w

as very easy to develop the CAD draw

ing and have it ready in a few

days. 3D printing w

as a big help for the project and provide a m

anufacturing solution that can be done with a few

parts up to a few

hundred. This also helped evacuate key manufacturing w

ithout the com

plexity of industrialization.

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Thanks to this critical mount, the drone can perceive its environm

ent in 3D

and find navigable routes in real time. U

sing the three-dim

ensional models created from

the laser and various sensors, the drone landm

arks in space and moves then independently. The

onboard computer calculates in real tim

e the most appropriate w

ay

“ Polyamide m

ade sense for two reasons. It is a m

aterial th

at h

as e

nough s

trength

to s

upport im

porta

nt p

art, b

ut

that remains flexible so that if stress is applied to the part

it doesn’t break. And since we’re fyling a drone, the fact

that it’s light helps too. “TH

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Blue Robotics is a well established com

pany based in Southern California. They m

ade a name for them

selves by offering a niche product: underwater

drones. There are many potential applications of underw

ater drones, and as the m

arket begins to open up, Blue Robotics specialize in creating drone subm

arines, and additional misc. parts that stand up to the harsh conditions

of the ocean.

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RU

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Rusty and his team searched online and offline for a thruster (m

otor and propeller unit) that could stand up to the w

ater pressure and salt water in

the ocean - something durable, inexpensive and easily adaptable. They then

realize the part they needed didn’t exist for a price that justified seeing this interesting project through to the end. M

ost thrusters on the market needed

to be serviced after 50 hours, and they were designed w

ith noticeably outdated technology. That is w

hen Rusty saw an opportunity that he w

as com

pelled to pursue: 3D printing.

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IVE T

HE P

RO

CESS FORW

AR

D?

Prototyping with Sculpteo m

eant that Rusty and his team could custom

ize a part for a specific end result, m

ake it light, able to fit with som

e metal parts,.

This way, they created a unique m

otor and propeller designed in a way that

lets water pass through both parts. That’s w

hat allows their drones to run

fully imm

ersed in water. BLUE RO

BOTICS

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WH

AT EVO

LUT

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HE SU

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NES M

AR

KET?

Due to the inexpensive and quick prototyping and m

anufacturing process Rusty w

as able to get his product to market faster than by

using a other prototyping processes. The thruser which is a m

ajor com

ponent in Blue Robotics’ submarine drone w

on Proto Lab’s 2014 Cool Idea Aw

ard, and their Kickstarter gained over $100,000 they w

ere funded at 293% of their original goal.

“The industry of Marine Robotics has stifled innovation

by keeping the mechanics and technology expensive.

With 3D

printing people are able to prototype and final m

anufacture parts inexpensively and quickly. That’s why w

e chose S

culp

teo!”

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If you read about 3D printing, you m

ost probably have heard about how its applications are

always m

ore numerous in m

edicine and research. Research teams are now

able to 3D print

bones structures, but also organs and living tissues for transplant purpose. One can also m

ention drug delivery m

icro pumps or organic solar cells. Being able to integrate 3D

printed elements

for rehabilitation, reconstruction and regeneration of the human body is a boom

ing area that is called Bio-Printing.

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But 3D Printing helps m

edicine and research in much less spectacular yet just as im

portant ways:

medicine m

ight be the field in which the need for custom

ization is most obvious. 3D

printing gives doctors and researchers the ability to create at a low

er cost customized care tools for their

patients, on top of making the prototyping of tools m

uch faster and simpler.

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Florian Voineau, a PhD researcher, tells us m

ore about the use of 3D printing

in his department at IM

S, the conception of microw

ave frequencies system

research team. H

is team is com

prised of 15 people working on a m

eans of radio com

munication w

ith very high frequencies. The structure to guide w

aves developed to reach such frequency is called a Waveguide, its m

ain objective is to transfer pow

er.

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Usually the production of this structure is very costly and standardised.

It is produced with m

achining equipment and requires assem

bly for the individual parts.

1. The first flaw in this process is assem

bly. When the final pieces are

assembled together by a joint, the pow

er transfer is reduced because the joint is not alw

ays optimal.

2. The second flaw in this process is cost. Producing the part w

ith traditional m

anufacturing is very costly and standardised. It is difficult to improve the

final part as the costs incurred are enormous.

3D printing often helps move science forw

ard in the research process. The collaboration betw

een the IMS Laboratory and Sculpteo is a telltale exam

ple. Based in Bordeaux, France, the IM

S laboratory works on the integration process

of materials. W

ith 165 researchers, 140 PhD students and 35 engineers/technicians, their research covers a w

ide range of topics.

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When M

r. Voineau and his team decided to develop their ow

n w

aveguide, they looked for a solution to overcome these constraints.

Indeed, to develop this highly customized project, the scientists

needed non-traditional,

non hom

ogeneous parts.

This is

how

Mr.Voineau had the idea to use Sculpteo’s online 3D

printing service, to test the custom

izable aspect of the additive manufacturing.

Then they requested their 3D printed parts in m

irror polished silver to increase the accuracy and precision of their end product. At the m

oment, they are running tests on a standard m

odel ( WR12) w

ith their Sculpteo 3D

printed parts.

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ECT HELP

S TH

E FUN

CTIO

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This 3D printed piece has a rectangular cavity w

hich allows the

radio waves to spread w

ith the reflection on the metallic w

all. This process enables the part to carry m

ore power than the usual cable

system, the geom

etry of the internal part determines the frequencies

that spreads. It’s the reason why the surface accuracy is extrem

ely im

portant.

FOR W

HICH

AP

PLICAT

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The result of their research could be used in multiple fields; antennae,

satellites, radars and even for security purposes.

“ Usually

the p

roductio

n o

f this

stru

ctu

re is

very

costly

and

standardised. It is produced with m

achining equipment

and requires assembly for the individual parts. “

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Dr M

arc Soubeyrand has been using 3D printing for a couple of years now

. O

ne of the main challenges for an orthopedic surgeon is to be able to

position prosthesis and implants w

ith the upmost precision. To help them

in this m

atter, they use what is called an ancillary tool. The basic function of

an ancillary tool is to guide the surgeon when positioning a prosthesis. The

right position is a relative matter since every individual has his ow

n physical characteristics. Therefore w

hen being given the choice between a tool that

is only defined by a range of different sizes and a fully customized one w

ith the patient’s data, the choice is pretty obvious.

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AT 3D P

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TED

PR

OCESS H

AS B

EEN U

SED ?

In the process of preparing for a surgery, Dr M

arc Soubeyrand compiles the

patient’s medical im

aging (in this case from CT scans) to turn them

into a proper 3D

file. To do so, he’s using a software called O

sirix. Importing the

result into Cinema 4D

allows him

to create the 3D printed m

edical tools he needs for the surgery. The 3D

prints are then used to guide the surgeon during the surgery and m

ake sure the implants are positioned perfectly.

As an orthopedic surgeon at the CHU Bicêtre hospital and as a researcher,

Dr M

arc Soubeyrand coments on latest changes in the m

edical industry and explains w

hy 3D printing was a m

ajor advantage for him. In particular w

ith regards to the creation of custom

ized product and 3D printed medical tools.

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“ Before turning to 3D printing, all the tools I used had to be

manufactured by hand. It becam

e clear very quickly that 3D

prin

ting w

ould

help

me to

save tim

e a

nd m

oney, m

akin

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is

kind of use within reach of m

ost healthcare professional. “

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To create those 3D printed m

edical tools, the surgeon uses a plastic m

aterial (PA 12), very comm

on in SLS 3D printing. The m

ain upside of this m

aterial is that it’s bio-compatible and that it can also be

sterilized if needed. At the same tim

e, it’s strong enough to resist a large range of possible uses w

hile remaining flexible on thin sections

of a design.

For Dr M

arc Soubeyrand, this way of using actual 2D

imaging from

patient and using it for a new

application is part of the future of the healthcare industry. As for m

any other industries, there is already plenty of data available but often w

e are not harnessing it efficiently or even not harnessing it at all. Instead of just looking at the m

edical im

aging, it can be used to make tools that are m

ade-to-measure for

each patient. Dr M

arc Soubeyrand told us that he took the initiative on his ow

n, but he’s seeing more and m

ore doctors eager to fully em

brace those technologies. The result is simply to give the patient

the best possible treatment and confort.

WH

AT IS TH

E NEX

T STEP ?

The next natural step towards 3D

printed ancillary tool is not only to produce tools and parts that helps the surgeon position im

plants and prosthesis, but also to directly m

anufacture those on the same basis

as the ancillary tools. Following his first experim

ent a few years ago,

Dr M

arc Soubeyrand has been prototyping various implants using the

same process. To this point, they rem

ain at the prototyping phase as integrating them

in a human body w

ould mean to print m

aterial that w

on’t be rejected be the human body. For surgeons as D

r Soubeyrand, this is the next barrier: being able to easily design and m

anufacture m

ade-to-measure im

plants that can be added during a surgery. In this race, D

r Marc Soubeyrand has m

ade lots of theoretical experiments.

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Ram Fish is the Founder/CEO

of a startup that has reinvented the traditional first aid kit into the w

orld’s first smart, portable health center. The last thing

you want to do in a crisis is Google em

ergency instructions, and with that

in mind Ram

applied his years of knowledge w

orking as an executive for Sam

sung and Apple and created GALE. At his Stanford University appearance

Ram introduced attendees to GALE, by show

casing the smart portable health

center’s access to live medical expertise through interactive first aid guides,

supplies, and the latest health sensors.

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The target demographics for his product, the list includes but is not lim

ited to households w

ith children and/or seniors, hospital discharge, educational institutions, offices kitchens, and any additional places that currently have a traditional first aid kit. In addition to its internet connectivity the GALE also houses a pull out com

partment that holds bandages and epipens, to heart

monitors and a charging station to keep sensors ready to use.

Ram Fish is the CEO

of startup 19Labs in Palo Alto, CA. When he told us he

was using Sculpteo’s 3D printing services to revolutionize the first aid kit, w

e just had to know

the story behind how his startup is m

erging healthcare with

3D printing.

GALE

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Ram’s first thought about 3D

printing with Sculpteo as an option

to prototype his product because of the speed offered during the iteration process. This helped him

to quickly iterate and make sure

that he was the first on the m

arket with his product.

The second reason Ram turned to additive m

anufacturing is the design of the prototype. The goal of GALE is to offer easy relief in stressful situations, and because m

edical needs vary, it was im

portant for the design to be custom

izable. In the aforementioned com

partment that

slides out on the front, the owner can custom

ize the drawer to fit

their needs, and 3D printing assisted w

ith this goal as well.

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AT FUT

UR

E FOR G

ALE

When w

e asked Ram how

he saw the m

arket for his product has changed over the past year, or so, he replied “Technology is enabling the adoption of sm

art home devices, but w

hen it comes to the first aid

kit, not only does it lag, it’s virtually a mess. GALE brings the first aid

kit out of the dark ages to meet the needs of savy parents w

ho take a proactive approach in m

anaging their family’s hom

e health care. W

hen you’re faced with a serious situation the last thing you w

ant to do is find yourself scram

bling for the right supplies or trying to use Google w

ith a crying baby. It’s no fun. Now

GALE can help.”

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“Bria

n, w

ho is

our v

ideo p

roducer, c

am

e u

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ith th

e id

ea o

f

Nightingale. W

e liked the sound of it – and we loved w

hat Florence N

ightingale represents, but it was too long. O

ne of o

ur in

vesto

rs, D

r Pete

r Fitz

gera

ld o

f Sta

nfo

rd, h

eard

that

and suggested 19GALE. And 19Labs came out of that.”

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PoppyThe 3D

printed Open-Source

FendyFurther O

pen-Source Developm

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R2D2 O

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HE STA

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When in decem

ber 13th 2013 Google inc acquired Boston Dynam

ics, the engineering and robotic com

pany, notable for the creation of a quadruped robot for the US arm

y ; it gave a clear signal that Robotics is a sector in full sw

ing for years to come. If Industrial robots conquered num

erous production areas, new

ventures encourage the development of individual robotics as w

ell.

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AN

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Robotic is one of the primary technologies facing the challenge of integrating electronics w

ithin a com

plex mechanical structure. This creates the need for strong lightw

eights structures able to support servom

echanisms. 3D

printing has become a very useful solution to tackle these

White Plastic Polyam

id or Thermoplastic Polyurethanes m

atch perfectly these solid and flexible arm

ature constraints while being less costly than carbon fiber.

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R TECH

NO

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A new perspective for 3D

printed robotics is the possibility of updating your design with additional

plugin pices. 3D printing technologies allow

a better lifecycle for adaptive products, while keeping

essentials parts and trading defective one for other more suitable.

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Poppy is a robotic open source project - its various components can be

modified and rearranged. For exam

ple, on the software, users can m

odify the source code to custom

ize the functionalities of their Poppy. For a project w

here sharing is the key, 3D printing is particularly w

ell suited to the task. Participants of the Poppy project only need to provide 3D

models on their

platform so that users can then produce them

via a 3D printing services such

as Sculpteo. With traditional m

anufacturing methods, the project developers

would have to deal w

ith various stages of production with huge costs and

quantity issues. With 3D

printing, regardless of the quantity produced, the cost rem

ains the same, w

hether it is for 1 or 1000 copies. 3D m

odels used in printing are easy to dow

nload, share and 3D print.

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Moreover, a com

plex and unique customization w

ould not have been possible in any other w

ay than by 3D printing. M

aking Poppy 3D files

available to everyone allows users to decide to m

odify or improve upon

existing 3D m

odels and share the results. For example, in the case of the

Poppy drone, the shoulders on the model have been m

odified in order to support propellers.

Poppy was born from

the desires of groups like INRIA (French Institute for

Research in Computer Science and Autom

ation) and Génération Robots to dem

ocratize and popularize robotics research by developing a fully open source robot. The idea w

as to make the various com

ponents of the Poppy robot (hardw

are, software, m

echanical parts) available to the public on a single platform

, so that everyone can create their own robot.

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Lastly, the clear advantage of using 3D printing to m

anufacture Poppy resides in the quality and cost of the m

aterial chosen for Poppy production. Poppy com

ponents are printed with SLS (Selective Laser

Sintering) technique, a 3D printing process that binds polyam

ide’s pow

der with a laser. It is a quick and affordable process, and the

plastic used in SLS 3D printing is flexible and durable. Its properties

are particularly suitable for producing mechanical objects (gears,

hinged parts, etc.).

In our role as project partners, we’ve printed m

ore than fifteen Poppy robots! W

hat will your Poppy look like? To get started, dow

nload the Poppy 3D

files and upload them to our w

ebsite. With our ability

to handle multiple 3D

file uploads, uploading the 40 components

composed by the Poppy m

odel will be a piece of cake!

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“ 3D

prin

ting is

an o

pportu

nity

to e

asily

repro

duce th

e

stru

ctu

re o

f a ro

bot a

nd to

share

it, so th

e u

ser c

om

munity

can improve on it. M

ore and more robots are being

produced thanks to 3D printing. Additive m

anufacturing is

a lo

ng-te

rm tre

nd fo

r the ro

botic

mark

et, ju

st a

s it is

for

aeronautic and automotive industries. “

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WH

AT IS TH

E INSP

IRAT

ION

FOR T

HE FEN

DI P

RO

JECT ?

The passion for a humanoid robot and the desire to create a robot for

the medical and educational fields. The purpose ? To m

ake hospitalized children sm

ile, and give young people the opportunity to learn CAD and the

production process with a product: the robot. Another goal in m

ind: build a team

to compete in the Robocup! For this open-source project and open to

participation, Sculpteo was chosen for 3D

printing of the mechanical parts.

WH

AT’S SCUPT

EO’S 3D

PR

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SERVICE M

OST SU

ITAB

LE FOR ?

Above all, affordability, an essential aspect for the team behind Fendi,

which w

e don’t neglect at Sculpteo. Want to know

how the cost of a piece

is determined? It depends on m

any complex and interrelated factors. O

ne of the factors is the quantity of m

aterial used to 3D Print the object. In this

sense, a hollowed-out plastic part w

ill always cost less than a full piece.

Fortunately, among the optim

ization tools that we offer on our platform

, there is the H

ollowing tool. It allow

s you to scoop out your piece easily, w

hile respecting the necessary minim

um thickness for the m

aterial and the dim

ensions of your object. So you can save up to 60% of the cost of

production of your piece.

Alexandre Le Falher and Yusuf Gokol embark on the Robotics adventure w

ith their Fendi project. They run a blog w

here they share their enthusiasm in their

robot project, and have not missed expressing a very positive and detailed

opinion on our 3D printing service. It is quite natural that we w

anted to also share their story.

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Another tip we offer: econom

y production mode, a slow

er production m

ethod which adds a few

days to production time w

ith the same

quality, and you can save an extra 30% (an option available only for

plastics for now). The Fendi team

was able to m

ake the most of it.

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AT FEATU

RES H

AVE B

EEN T

HE M

OST U

SEFUL ?

The team also highlights our unique advantages in term

s of quality of service and ease of use of our 3D

printing platform. The team

especially appreciated our M

ulti-Upload tool, the ability to load

multiple 3D

models sim

ultaneously. A function which “m

akes life easier” and prevents you from

wasting tim

e, especially when it com

es to load all the m

echanical parts of a future robot!

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OES D

ELIVERY FA

RE ?

No less than 8 parts w

ere received on time and w

ell packaged, yet surprising for the Fendi team

they arrived in 4 deliveries (the team

only paid for one). At Sculpteo, we ensure that you receive your

different pieces as early as possible. An additional cost for us, but a quality of service that w

e care about. Once the parts w

ere received, the team

only needed to assemble the robot. N

o problems w

ith assembly,

and of course : the team chose our plastic, an ideal m

aterial for the assem

bly of mechanical parts or prototyping.

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“ Apart from the financial cost, Sculpteo has other technical

and practical benefits that competitors do not offer.”

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IkilockThe Sm

art Prototyped LockM

y Driving Pal

Tracker for Privacy M

ag TargetStay Carbon Charged

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In the late 80’s, Xerox Parc scientist Mark W

eiser described his vision of the “ ubiquitous computing “.

This third informatic era is characterised by the m

ultiplication of mobile term

inals connected with

one another, collecting and treating data from the environm

ent around. Objects from

everyday life thus participate to a bigger interconnected netw

ork succeeding to desktop informatic.

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Heart m

onitor implants and quantified-self tracker, m

icro autonomous greenhouses, dom

otic regulating system

s... According to Ericsson’s CEO H

ans Vestberg, by 2020, 50 billions of these devices are expected. These connected objects are characterised by the use of sensors and em

bedded microcontrollers. Their spread w

as made possible by the fall in prices of electronic

components and the easier access to prototyping technologies like 3D

printing.

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3D printing is ideal for the creation of custom

ized and perfectly fitted cases, which are particularly

needed for connected objects due to their various uses and their need for versatility and specific accessories.

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Founded in Decem

ber 2015, GEMECO

D introduced the IKILO

CK. The aims

is to propose the most secure solution out there for sm

art locks. Jacques Leneveu, founder of the com

pany, matured the project for 6 years until he

found the right team and the resources to m

ake it happen.

WH

AT IS IKILO

CK ?

Since a few years now

, we are seeing m

ore and more projects and com

panies that offer a new

way to interact w

ith your locked doors. The trend is so noticeable that W

ired Magasine published a post about the five best

solutions for smart locks. Im

agine that instead of always looking for your

keys you could just approach your phone near the door of your apartment to

open it. Even better, you could activate virtual keys from you phone so that

guests (friends or Airbnb) could also get in. This way of m

anaging doors is already here and not reserved to five star hotels any m

ore.

WH

ICH P

RO

TOTY

PIN

G T

ECHN

IQU

ES WER

E USED

?

Manufacturing, w

hether it’s a prototype or a finished product, is not the result of one m

anufacturing technology. On the contrary, it’s a blend of different

manufacturing m

ethods. The team at IKILO

CK used both 3D printing and

CNC m

achining to create their prototypes. 3D printing m

ainly helped them

with the parts they needed in plastics, w

hile CNC m

achining was useful to

create the metal fram

ework of the object.

Specialized in the data security, the company GEM

ECOD introduced the

IKILOCK, a new

smart lock for your doors and your building doors. W

e sat dow

n with Jacques Leneveu, CTO

and Founder of the company, to understand

how 3D printing played a central role in bringing the product to life.

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Depending on the precision and resistance needed for the parts,

Jacques Leneveu favored different 3D printing technologies. The parts

that needed less precision and could allow for a rougher surface finish

(for the structure) were created in our polyam

ide plastic material.

The finest parts were m

ade with a technology called Polyjet and 3D

printed in resin.

For the electronics, the team prototyped a lot of it using on-the-shelf

components that w

ere easy to find and to assemble. H

owever very

specific and miniaturized com

ponents required too much precision to

be assembled in house and the com

pany had to turn itself to other partners.

WH

AT DID

TH

E TEA

M W

ON

BY U

SING

3D P

RIN

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All in all, prototyping with those technologies allow

ed the team to

cut the time for product developm

ent by a year. The three different prototypes w

ould otherwise have asked for the creation of a basic

polyurethane mold or for CN

C machining. Both are also giving great

results, but they are generally more expensive and take m

ore time.

The major upside for the team

was that they could test the three

forms, the fitting and functions in a very short delay. O

f course, the design of the IKILO

CK played an important role, but 3D

printing is now

so precise that the CAD files do not need changes before being

uploaded on our platformp. For the com

pany the right partner is located in France as the founder is convinced that IKILO

CK should be a M

ade in France product. After the presentation of the first prototypes at CES 2016, the com

pany has now a year to m

eet all the challenges that com

e with industrialization. To learn m

ore about the product, discover their presentation video.T

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“I knew from

the beginning that 3D printing w

as the right technology to produce som

e of our prototype’s parts. I first discovered 3D

printing back in the early 90s when I w

as w

orking at Schneider Electric.

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AT PR

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LEM IS IT SO

LVIN

G ?

It’s always im

portant to start with the W

HY. W

hy am I creating this product

and why am

I using this technology to create it? For My D

riving Pal they have m

any why’s but one of the reasons that Shahram

highlights is the fact that his product can help preventing vehicular heatstroke by issuing alert on user’s phone, w

hen interior temperature of car get too hot. Each year in

the United States an average of 37 children lose their lives in this w

ay, or about one every 9 days. M

y Driving Pal w

as designed to this.

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W D

OES IT W

OR

KS ?

MD

P device measures the tem

perature via its built-in temperature sensor

and it detects presence of child or pet via its sound detection sensor. MD

P Application issues an alert on user’s phone, w

hen he/she is not with the

range of the car.

Once this first Problem

Solving design created, Shahram realized the

applications were as vast as your im

agination. He im

portant to think of the product you create as a solution to som

eone else’s problem, beginning

with that thought process w

ill help you save time and m

oney as you going through the process of building your business.

My D

riving Pal is a smart tracker that protects your privacy and provides peace

of mind. Shahram

Rezaei is the Founder of this multi-purpose D

evice-App solution. It delivers a suite of security, m

onitoring, and tracking applications. From

delivering remote push notification on parent’s phone if the interior

temperature, to autom

atically tracking bike, car, drone if it’s ever stolen.

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hen s

tartin

g y

our n

ew

ventu

re it’s

importa

nt to

ask…

What problem

am I solving?”

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Like most people in our com

munity, Sharhram

learned that the additive m

anufacturing process was less expensive than injection

molding for the quantity he w

anted to print.The team at M

y Driving

Pal knew that they w

anted to offer their device in many different

customizable options. For exam

ple, customers can select the color

and size of their device, and they can do that because Shahram and

his team are using our plastic m

aterial which com

e in 11 different colors and 3 possible finishes.

Something to consider w

hen you’re creating a customizable product

for your customers is the iteration process that needs to take place.

There are very few products that are successful w

ithout going through an iteration process. This is the process of m

aking tweaks to the

model (and som

etimes to the idea itself), it doesn’t m

ean that there’s anything w

rong with the original idea, in fact it generally m

eans that you’re closer to giving your custom

ers the perfect product for them.

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When Shahram

and his team ran into a m

inor design issue during the prototyping phase of their product they w

ere able to quickly correct it (both of w

hich are extremely im

portant for an up and coming

business). Shahram w

as surprised to learn during the prototyping phase that the case w

as a bit lose. There was a super tiny piece of

the case that wasn’t closing. Shahram

let me know

that it needed a correction of about 1-2m

m for it to close. “That’s it 1-2m

m!“ H

e was

even more surprised to learn that using this technology he could fix

that minor issue and that the process w

as quite simple and w

asn’t expensive at all.

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WH

O IS JEA

N M

ICHEL T

HIER

S

Jean-Michel Thiers is an engineer and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, you

might recognize his nam

e and/or the name of his com

pany from our

“Sculpteo presents Carbon 3D” video (which you can find below

). Yes it’s true that he w

as the first person to step forward and offer his feedback w

hen we

were testing our new

Carbon3D printer, but w

hat we haven’t told you yet is

Jean-Michel needed it later that w

eek to show his distributors.

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AT IS MA

G TA

RG

ET ?

Today he is the CEO/Founder of M

agTarget, a wireless charging system

for your sm

artphone and tablets. It securely holds your device with no clips and

no clamps. It w

irelessly charges your devices without plugging the phone

into anything. The MagTarget team

have been working for tw

o years and gone through hundreds of prototypes to achieve the developm

ent of their patent pending technology that allow

s you to simply attach a Target Ring to

your device (with or w

ithout cases), and touch to charge.

At Sculpteo we are very proud to have so m

any engineers and entrepreneurs in our custom

ers because it allows us to reach out to them

to test our materials

and technology. We can also receive their feedback and im

plement new

ideas alm

ost very quickly. That’s why w

hen this experienced entrepreneur let us know

he wanted to use our Carbon printer to create the m

ost recent iteration of his enclosure and that he needed to bring it to his distributors

In march 2016, Sculpteo introduced the Carbon Pilot Program

, and with it w

e released photos, videos, and related new

s articles which included quotes from

Sculpteo’s CEO

Clement M

oreau and Carbon’s CEO Joseph D

eSimone. O

ur very first tester has been Jean-M

ichel Thiers, engineer and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, Founder/CEO

of MagTarget.

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later that week. W

e knew that utilizing a m

echanical engineering part to test our m

aterials, its speed and technology would be the best

stress test that we could have.

WH

Y JEAN

-MICH

EL IS TH

E PER

FECT TEST

ER FOR CA

RB

ON

3D

PR

INT

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As a busy entrepreneur JMT needed to receive great results, and

he needed it delivered quickly, we accepted the challenge because

this is more than half of our users. O

ur users are entrepreneurs and engineers w

ith the aim to sell their parts or show

case them at trade

shows. W

e stepped up because if we could achieve this entrepreneurs

goal we knew

we’d not only set him

up for success with his distributors

but we’d set ourselves up for success as w

ell by meeting our key

demographic’s needs.

According to JMT, entrepreneurs w

ho work w

ith distributors are com

monly w

orking within a very tight schedule. D

istributors will

often tell the entrepreneur that they want to fit a product into their

catalog with very little w

arning. This is exactly what happened in our

engineer’s case, his international distributor wanted to add a product

to their catalog but they needed final samples from

him by the end

of the week.

That’s where Sculpteo com

es in. The file was perfect for SLS, in fact

JMT had already printed this item

using our SLS technology (and with

his own m

odified FDM

printer as well) for quality control. H

is interest in Sculpteo’s Carbon 3D

Pilot Program w

as to receive a very precise and detailed rapid prototype so that he could create a silicone m

old. And on top of that he needed it done quickly, to have enough tim

e for the steps that w

ould come after.T

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“Bein

g a

n e

ngin

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the S

ilicon V

alle

y is

gre

at

because y

ou g

et th

e s

ense th

at e

very

thin

g is

right

at your fingertips, and that gives you a drive to keep m

oving forward. You m

ight have neighbors or friends w

ho a

re e

ntre

pre

neurs

that a

chie

ve g

reat s

uccess, a

nd

you have access to the same resources they have”.

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Mass custom

isation is the combination of M

ass Production - the production of a large amounts of

standardized products - with Custom

isation - building objects according to individual preferences. This allow

s to manufacture products that are each different from

the other, without additional

costs. In this area, 3D printing is the only technology enabling this flexibility for production.

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Customization to fit a custom

er’s taste, habits, or modes of consum

ption is more and m

ore looked after. It’s a grow

ing opportunity, for producers and marketers.

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If this new possibilities have been explored for fashion, furniture and advertising products, one

still has to wonder if it can be used for m

ore useful applications. In this regard, applications in the m

edical field such as morphological 3D

printed orthopedic soles or prosthesis give food for thoughts in term

s of thinking products from a m

odular structures standpoint.

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If you have ever wanted to use 3D

printing to customize your furniture and

give a personal touch to your home, but you’re not graduate in design, w

e bet that you’ll becom

e enthusiastic about the new initiative developed by

Lowe’s Innovation Lab. In april 2015 they have opened their first 3D

printing space to help people access to design and 3D

print home accessories.

The first Orchard Supply H

ardware opened w

ith a 3D printing space is based

in Mountain View

, California. Customers at O

SH can custom

ize color, shape and m

aterial of light switch plates, address plates, door handles and cabinet

knobs on a dedicated store interface. For people unable to visit the Golden State in this period, O

SH also put a live online experience directly on their

website.

Lowe’s Innovation Labs has created a new

program in O

rchard Supply H

ardware to bring custom

ers simple, fun experiences w

hen they’re designing and producing item

s for their home w

ith 3D printing. Of course, Sculpteo w

ill be there to 3D print all these creations.

LOWE’S

“The home is very personal and 3D

printing gives hom

eow

ners

unpre

cedente

d a

ccess to

build

item

s th

at

reflect their individuality,”Kyle N

el, executive director of Lowe’s Innovation Labs.

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ICIPATE TO

TH

IS EXP

ERIEN

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Customer can choose to use the 3D

-printer in store or get other m

aterial and quality by ordering online. Lowe’s uses Sculpteo 3D

Printing Cloud Engine to proceed these online orders and asked us to 3D

print in Sculpteo factories and deliver it directly to the customer.

For the first time in a retail setting, custom

ers can also scan some

items, such as out of production antique hom

e accents, to create 3D

models for printing. This project has been conducted by Low

e’s Innovation Lab w

ith the consultancy Authentise and include also the great folks of CGTrader.

The 3D printing space has opened in the beginning of m

ay and is fully functionable. If you w

ant to experience the best in 3D printing

customization for furniture, you’ll know

where to go.

“Until n

ow

, it’s b

een h

ard

for th

e a

vera

ge c

onsum

er

to benefit from this technology because of the cost

and complexity, so w

e are bringing customers an

approachable and affordable customization experience.”

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A CAM

ERA CA

MO

UFLA

GE?

It’s pretty revolutionary to imagine that cam

eras can now cam

ouflage and disappear into their environm

ents and the home security com

pany Kiwatch

has pulled it off. The folks at Kiwatch have given their custom

ers the option to 3D

print their camera cases, allow

ing customers to custom

ize the color, pattern, and design of the cam

era’s case. You can choose between a w

ood im

itation pattern or a cute monster that w

ill blend into your child’s room.

You can also create your own pattern w

ith just a picture (for example of your

wallpaper), using Kitw

atch’s online customization application..

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W SCU

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ED T

HE CU

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N P

RO

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Sculpteo plays a big role in the customization process. U

sing our 3D printing

service has allowed Kiw

atch to launch the cases very quickly, without

having to manage a stock or invest in any equipm

ent. 3D printing m

akes the industrial process m

ore flexible and fluid. It is also particularly fitting for a business that involves m

ass customization as there is no need for m

olds of the objects as is necessary w

ith some, m

ore traditional manufacturing

processes.

Mass custom

isation isn’t just for smartphone cases, but security cam

eras too! Since they usually peer into their environm

ents, the CCTV business Kitwatch

wants to com

bine security and quality aesthetic, by making custom

izable 3D printed cam

era shells.

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CUSTO

MIZIN

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ITH

COLO

R

With 3D

printing, all you need is a 3D m

odel. Our plastic m

aterial is being used for the plain colors pads, but also our m

ulticolor material

for the more sophisticated designs. The process involves a m

ineral pow

der that is glued and simultaneously painted layer by layer,

creating a 3D object. That’s how

the model com

es out of the printer in full color! All it takes is a quick brushing of the excess m

ineral powder

and you’ve got a fully colored object. The results are stunning – if you w

ant to learn more about the process, feel free to head over to our

page dedicated to our multicolor m

aterial.

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HO

W CA

N YO

U G

ET YOU

R OW

N FAV

OR

ITE CA

R FOR FR

EE ?

Just go to ww

w.printm

yfabia.com and follow

the steps! This special website

gives you the opportunity to customize a Fabia. You have the choice betw

een tw

o models (either a Berline or a Com

bi model), you can pick the different

colors (bodywork, roof, rim

s) and even get your name printed on the chassis!

All you need to do to get your own 3D

printed car is book a test-drive at your local ŠKO

DA dealer. The 3D

printed car will be w

aiting for you there!

HO

W D

ID T

HIS CA

MPA

IGN

COM

E AB

OU

T?

The campaign and w

ebsite were devised by Shivacom

, a French comm

unication agency. Sculpteo follow

ed up by leading the 3D printing end. W

e 3D m

odeled the shapes of the Fabia car thanks to our in house 3D

designer. It was an

important step to be sure that the m

iniature version of the car would look

great. Of course, every car is produced at our m

anufacturing premises: every

time som

eone makes a reservation and orders their 3D

printed Fabia, we 3D

print it and ship it to the car dealer.

The campaign is initially launching in France and is planned to be spread

through Europe. Beyond the customisation part, the cam

paign also includes interesting contents that show

how the 3D

printed cars are produced. Here

some quick videos that describe the process of 3D

printing the Fabias.

The 15th of February 2015, ŠKODA France launched a special cam

paign for custom

ers who have taken a test-drive: custom

ize and 3D print your ow

n miniature Fabias! It is the first tim

e a brand has used 3D printing for a cam

paign of this type.

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«This innovative campaign show

s the wide-ranging

possibilities and uses of 3D printing. 3D

printing eases access to creating real m

iniature objects, and gives ŠKODA

the opportunity to enhance its customers relations.»

Clément M

oreau

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Printed Fashion Pattern LineArro

Concept Lamp

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Eyewear Kit for 3D

P Glass

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The introduction of 3D printing opens up new

perspectives for designers and possibilities for creating new

shapes and using new m

aterials. For example in Fashion D

esign, one can explore latticed structures in order to play w

ith deformation properties; generated patterns

are experimented w

ith acoustic isolation materials; and other filling structures are used for

optimizing resistance.

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Combined w

ith traditional techniques, 3D printing com

pels designer to think their concept in a different w

ay. 3D Printing allow

s to work w

ith shapes that are impossible to create any other

way. This new

technology is being ceised by creators as a way to enrich their existing range of

practices and tools.

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IZATIO

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KE

3D printed design requires a genuine know

-how in m

anufacturing. Previously, injection moulding

production favored repetition and standardization. Not only 3D

printing helps with prototyping,

but it also allows sm

all production with very com

plex and numerous interchangeable parts.

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E STORY B

EHIN

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NA

STASIA’S FA

SHIO

N T

ECH ?

Anastasia chose to retain a few traditional fashion m

anufacturing techniques such as using traditional fabric; how

ever 3D printed custom

ized patterns elevate the designs by adding architectural interest. Anastasia’s focus for this collection w

as to create an example to proved that 3D

printing is not only for ‘haute-couture’, but that it could be used off the catw

alk as well. This

is an idea we also believe in. There w

ere however several challenges that

we needed to overcom

e to create the “Virus” collection.

FIND

ING

TH

E RIG

HT 3D

PR

INT

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EAR

AB

LE MAT

ERIA

L

For the Virus collection we used both our polyam

ide and our brand new

material TPU

, the most flexible on the m

arket, with a flexibility of 65A

Shores. The specific mechanical properties of these tw

o different materials

require that we create the m

esh in two very different and unique w

ays. For the m

esh 3D printed in Polyam

ide our attention was m

ainly on the joints, w

e focused on this section using that material for the purpose of creating

articulated mesh. W

hereas the 3D printed m

esh in TPU needed to provide

structure which enhances the flexibility of the m

aterial, as counterintuitive as that sounds.

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IECE : TOP CELLS B

ASED

PATT

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At first Anastasia Ruiz put on paper her vision for each cell. Then she used Illustrator softw

are to design the shape and replicate them to create a

In 2016 we w

anted to showcase the practical use of 3D printing technology

with Sculpteo collaborative collection w

ith ESMO

D and Fashion Designer

Anastasia Ruiz. The ‘Virus’ collection is an example of elevating traditional

fashion design by incorporating 3D Printing technology.

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new form

. From this first 2D

representation, the collaboration with

Sculpteo started. With the help of our 3D

designer, Alvise Rizzo, we

figured out a way to create a 3D

model. As the flexibility is not one

of the technical properties of the Polyamide w

e had to think how to

create an articulated structure to make it follow

the movem

ent of the traditional fabric. Sculpteo’s team

came up w

ith the idea of triangular joints to m

ake all the parts fully mobile but also to respect the vision

of the fashion designer. Our collaborative goal for this design w

as to really highlight the possibilities of 3D

printing by creating innovative articulations.

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UP O

F DIFFER

ENT

VIR

US CELLS 3D

PR

INT

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POLYA

MID

E.

By using the same process, our collaborative goal w

as to show how

size and scale can be used in 3D

printed fashion. When you look at the

dress from the top to the bottom

you can see the 3D design grow

ing to better fit the shape of the dress and em

phasize the flared bottom.

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IRD

PIECE IN

TH

E COLLECT

ION

: A SKIRT W

ITH

CELLS 3D

PR

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OU

R BR

AN

D N

EW T

PU

MAT

ERIA

L.

The third piece in the collection is a skirt with cells 3D

printed in our brand new

TPU m

aterial.This skirt is very special to us. Indeed, this year for the CES 2016 w

e have announced the launch of our new

material w

hich is TPU, as w

e said earlier it is the most flexible on the

market to date. So in this skirt, Anastasia Ruiz and Sculpteo’s team

w

anted to enhance the flexibility of the material and also display how

the conception differs w

hether you want to 3D

print in polyamide or

TPU. For exam

ple with TPU

we played w

ith volume, and this proved

to be a challenge due to flexibility of the material. To m

ake the most

of this flexible 3D printing m

aterial Anastasia decided to design a bubble skirt. Anastasia’s pattern allow

ed us to 3D m

odel the cells on tw

o levels to create a visual effect.

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Designers for alm

ost ten years, they have used 3D printing in their previous

projects, mostly to m

ake prototypes of their final designs. But this time they

decided to use 3D printing not as a m

ere mean of production but as an end

product.

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W 3D

P

RIN

TIN

G

HELP

ED T

HE

DESIG

NER

S TO

CREAT

E TH

E CO

NCEPT O

F TH

EIR LAM

P?

They explained us that one of the first idea is based on the aesthetics of the cord. As this kind of cord is often used in design, they w

anted to reinvent the w

ay to see it and use it. Also, as they wished to use the form

complexity that

is allowed by 3D

printing, they created a structure that helps to bring out a new

shape for the cord. They firstly designed an intricacy of little tubes to bend the cord and quickly realised that the cord becam

e the aorta of their lam

p. The complexity of their design allow

ed them to reproduce the concept

of a heart, with the 3D

printed structure enabling the energy to pass and give life to the lam

p.

WH

AT KIN

D O

F MAT

ERIA

LS HAV

E BEEN

USED

AN

D W

HY ?

They used a classic white Polyam

id or PA 12 with a 100 m

icrons thickness w

ith a raw finish and dyed som

e of the prints black and blue. As the final aspect w

as dull and matt, w

e wondered w

hy they did not try a polished finish such as the double polishing? But they replied to us that the m

at

When tw

o French designers are inspired by 3D printing, they give light a heartbeat. Ludo Roth and Erik Arlen, the tw

o founders of Arro studio, used Sculpteo to print their w

ork exposed during the Paris Design W

eek. Curious about their living design, w

e met them

to better understand their process of creation and their vision of 3D printing.

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aspect enhances the shining texture of the cord, and this contrast was

closer to their vision of the materials.

WH

Y DID

TH

EY CHO

OSE A 3D

PR

INT

ING

SERVICE CO

MPA

NY

OV

ER INV

EST INTO

A FDM

PR

INT

ER?

Their vision of 3D printing is very relevant. For them

, 3D printing is

not only a mean of production, it is above all a technology. Investing

in a FDM

printer would be a w

ay to limit them

selves in terms of

materials and process possibilities. Curious about the developm

ent of the M

IT glass printer or the multi-m

aterials printers they said “ these progresses becom

e our design briefs ” and as soon as we talked

about the recent progression made w

ith the technology, they were

overflowed w

ith astonishing ideas!

Also a 3D printing service com

pany like Sculpteo helps them to keep

control on their projects. It was really im

portant for them as they

want to use the least outsourcing possible, except for the 3D

printing, and sell their design only on their e-shop. U

sing Sculpteo service is for them

“ the simple w

ay to go and to handle our project from A to

Z, to be responsive and to realise it directly. The product becomes an

imm

ediate reality.”

WH

AT WILL B

E TH

E NEX

T STEP FO

R 3D P

RIN

TIN

G ?

Accordingly to them, there are still tw

o important aspects that the

3D printing industry needs to w

ork on. Firstly, it is the multi-m

aterial printing. W

hen printers would be able to fully print a final object

without final assem

bly necessary, then 3D printing w

ill have reach a higher level. But there is not only the technological aspect that m

atters for them. There are also the people. People, often do not

realise the impact and the range of 3D

printing. They keep thinking that it as gadget technology or a m

ere hype phenomenon. But the

technology is already way beyond that. Then it is im

portant to raise aw

areness and allow people to better understand the possibilities.

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AN

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EN FR

AM

E COM

MU

NITY

Quite like m

any digital platforms are releasing APIs for third parties to

connect, the Eyewear Kit cracked the code to insure 3D

printed glasses are on the w

ay. They created a designer kit which offer 3D

models of a

large range of lenses that they can provide. Around those 3D files, designers

can come and im

agine new designs of glasses. For the first m

odels, the N

etherlands based

company

partnered w

ith M

ichiel Cornelissen.

The designer im

agined a set of three different glasses frame. Those m

odels are available in M

ichiel’s Sculpteo shop. Each frame w

ill be printed in nylon.You’ll find three different m

odels for now:

– the “Hatch” m

odel:– the“Pince-nez” m

odel

The Eyewear Kit is a N

etherland Based Company specialized in the creation

of lenses for 3D printed glasses. In order to allow people custom

ize their own

frame, they develop on their w

ebsite a customization application. Beyond this

fun application, their website m

ust be put in the context of CAD Sharing Site - such as the popular thingiverse. In this regard M

ichiel Cornelissen “hacked” the m

odel to propose a very fine lattice worked 3D printed vision.

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E CUSTO

M A

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Once you’ve picked your fram

e model, you need to visit the Eyew

ear Kit w

ebsite to choose the lenses you want. You can choose betw

een m

any different lenses type.

For now, the only registered designer is M

ichiel Cornelissen but in the future, you’ll see m

ore and more m

odels. This is a great example of w

hat 3D

Printing can achieve when it com

bines traditional manufacturing

and on demand 3D

Printing. The Eyewear kits is basically a w

ebsite that allow

s you to buy and recieve sets of lenses you can use to transform

3D printed fram

es into fonctional glasses. Then you just have to snap the lenses on the fram

e.

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L’Illiade du Patrimoine

Abbaye Model for the Visually Im

paired

Cap Science - INRAP

3DP Archeology D

iscovery

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DEL CO

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Models are a great tool for com

municating ideas: everything is m

ore explicit when it’s in 3D

and it’s possible to handle it. But w

ith traditional technologies, it’s often too expensive to create one unique m

odel for it to be worth the cost and effort. W

e put architecture and education together because they encounter the sam

e need to comm

unicate visually efficiently.

INCR

EASED

ACCESSIB

ILITY

One of the custom

ers we present to you, L’Illiade du Patrim

oine, created a model for the visually

impaired. Such an object w

ould have been way too expensive if not 3D

printed. 3D printing

makes it possible to equip historic buildings w

ith scaled replicas. One can im

agine this practice spreading in the upcom

ing years. In the same w

ay, one can imagine, in schools, anatom

ical replicas for science classes, historical sites for history and arts classes,...

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EL FOR V

ISUA

LLY IMPA

IRED

PEO

PLE

The model is a m

ediation tool. Visually impaired people often have m

aps of historical m

onuments m

ade with therm

oforming w

hich, even though they’re great tools, aren’t very detailed, and only give a vague idea of the space. M

oreover, Manon Sarthou asked for a m

odel in order to experience and feel the abbaye and its garden. Sculpteo already w

orked on a similar m

odel for the M

ont Saint Michel - w

hat really convince Manon to w

ork with Sculpteo.

WH

AT WA

S TH

E DESIG

N P

RO

CESS?

They already had the architectural plans, but not the measurem

ents of the garden The association had to m

easure manually, take pictures, m

ake films

while w

alking through the alleys and comm

enting the elevation levels.

Manon then ask to architect Alexis D

idier, who just graduated from

school in Belgium

, to handle the 3D design. Alexis used all the m

easurements they

had gathered, and completed them

by coming on the site.

He w

asn’t very familiar w

ith Sketchup, but he got it quickly, with the help of

Sculpteo’s comm

ercial service, especially Romain Renault. The first question

he helps them w

ith was to choose the m

aterial the model w

ill be made of.

They choose White Polyam

id , the most sim

ple and least expensive option, on top of being resistant.

The Saint-André Abbaye, located in the South of France, in an important

historical monum

ent. From a sim

ple hermitage in the 6th century it is still

evolving with its tim

e.Especially when it com

es to accessibility tools for the visually im

paired. Sculpteo worked w

ith Manon Sarthou, tow

n-planning and architectural heritage expert in charge of the accssibility projects for the association l’Illiade du patrim

oine.

L’Illiade du Patrimoine

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ESIGN

MEET

S TECH

NICA

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AIN

TS

An important question w

as : should they cut the model in several

parts? At first they wanted it to one unique piece, but Rom

ain warned

us that there was a risk of w

arping because it was so long and flat (it’s

an unusual 3D printing hazard : w

hen a piece is long and flat, it tends to get distorted during the cooling process). After a long hesitation the association decided to follow

Sculpteo’s advice and to cut it into 4 parts, w

ith added systems to keep the parts together. This also

allowed to strengthen the design.

WH

AT FU

TU

RE

EVO

LUT

ION

FO

R 3D

P

RIN

TED

CU

LTU

RA

L H

ERITA

GE?

As for further evolution of the project in terms of cultural accessibility,

the Center for National M

onuments, in charge of the neighboring site,

the Fort Saint André, might be interested in enlarging the m

odel, to include the Fort in it, since the tw

o sites are actually one, and supposed to be thought of as a unit. Believing in project like this one, since the are high quality w

ithout being financially disastrous, l’Illiade du Patrim

oine are now looking for crow

dfunding with the

group Dartagan Patrim

oine.

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I contacted model m

akers, but what they offered w

as too dull, and too expensive: the usual m

odels for the visually im

paired are rough, imprecise. I w

anted better. A friend w

ho works in an architect’s office told m

e about 3D

prin

ting, a

nd th

e o

nlin

e 3

D p

rintin

g s

erv

ice o

ffere

d b

y

Sculpteo. This seemed to be the solution for a m

uch more

detailed and less expensive model.

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Cap Sciences is an association based in south of France with the goal of

sharing scientific culture to the public. This time, they w

ant to awake the

vocation for archeology to the youngest in a playful way. Children w

ill discover archeology by searching and finding artifacts them

selves.

The issue with real artifacts is that they should not be handled by the public,

especially children. They are fragile objects that could even be dangerous (like ancient knives) for the youngest. That is the reason w

hy they needed to be reproduced and adapted for this particular public.

Cap Science wanted to use an innovative technology for the reproduction of

the artifacts: the partnership with Sculpteo w

as born. As partner, we helped

to make this project com

e true by advising, 3D printing the artifacts and

being mecenes.

From the 7th of February to the 20th of Septem

ber, Cap Sciences has organised “Fouille, farfouille. Aventure-toi dans le tem

ps !”. Like real scientists, 3-6 years old children w

ill discover how archaeologists w

ork and have to find out buried objects – all reproduced thanks to 3D printing.

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E PH

OTO

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AM

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RIC P

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About 40 real artifacts (made of ceram

ic, metal, bones, stone, etc.)

have been reproduced through photogramm

etry and 3D printed. The

3D m

odeling was an im

portant and uneasy step to achieve. Thanks to H

enry Elophe, a researcher in the filed of 3D and a passionate

of photogramm

etry, thousands of pictures were taken in order to

make realistic artifacts w

ith precise details. A lot of time and energy

was spent to im

prove the objects so they could be handled easily by children, and yet convey all their archeological m

eaning. Our

engineers recomm

ended to use a plastic material, covered w

ith a food varnish. This w

as decided for security issues, in case the children w

ould try to “taste” the 3D printed objects!

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M A

RCH

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GY TO

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OTO

YP

ING

: PAST TO

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UR

E B

RID

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ENER

ATIO

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3D printing w

as an appropriate technology for this kind of project: it w

as perfect to make quickly and w

ith a less cost artifacts especially conceived for children. Furtherm

ore, 3D printed artifacts are great

mediation supports of science: thanks to this exhibition, children can

also discover the 3D printing technology. Therefore, Cap Science w

as especially pleased to have the opportunity to integrate an innovative m

anufacturing process into one of its events. For sure, Cap Sciences w

ill use more and m

ore 3D printing because this technologies

allows a w

ide range of applications: from reproduction of precious or

complicated objects to the creation of prototypes.

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A Safer Urban Electric Bike

ElectricMood

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According to american econom

ist Jeremy Rifkin - the third industrial revolution w

ill go through a m

ajor transitional shift of our transportation modes. D

ue to the energetic transition from

fossils to sustainable energies, new electric based transportations w

ill be led to develop. One

can already witness the developm

ent of hybrid electric cars and shared transportations systems.

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eco-friendly transports are progressively replacing the individual car era. Bike renewal

particularly illustrate this shift: a modular chassis m

ade of 3D printed nodes and m

etal printed m

echanical parts such as chain and derailleur, electric power-assistance for traveling longer

distances and even folding-up structure to carry your bike as a suitcase.

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From another Standpoint, 3D

printing has substantial transport implications. In particular w

ith regard to international freight. As products can now

be manufactured in sites closer to the

end destination, it is not necessary anymore to im

port pieces from all around the w

orld thus decreasing the need for international transportation.

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We have seen m

any changes in cycle safety, but typically they involve changes to road design, protective devices such as helm

ets, education and training for cyclists and drivers, and visibility m

ethods such as street lighting and/or reflective devices w

orn by the cyclists. According to the 2015 European Com

mission Report “Road Safety in the European U

nion” released in March

2015 it states that “In total, cyclists make up 8%

of all who die on the road

in the EU.” But w

hen we take a look at cycling fatalities broken dow

n by country w

e see that countries like Denm

ark and Netherlands report 17%

and 24%

respectively. In the past years the fastest growing category w

ithin the biking industry is the electric bicycle or EPACs (electric pow

er-assisted cycles), and N

oordung saw this as a unique opportunity.

In Europe more than 20 m

illion bicycles are sold, and more than half (around

12 million) are produced in countries w

ithin the EU. The European bicycle industry em

ploys more than 70,000 jobs in m

ore than 600 small or m

edium

enterprises. The Slovenian startup Noordung has created of an urban electric

bike to mix biking w

ith music and introduce innovative solutions, providing

excellent biking user experience for urban bikers.

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A Safer Urban Electric Bike

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music. Today m

usic on bikes is mostly listened to through

headphones, but this is extremely dangerous, it lessens

the perception of the surroundings.”

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Gregor and his team at N

oordung decided to hack the design of the tradition electric bike by putting at the heart of their bike a sleek pow

erbox which houses not only m

echanisms necessary to m

ake the electric bike m

ove, but it also includes an integrated sound system

which can be used to play m

usic from any sm

artphone devise using BlueTooth. They refer to it as the “pow

erbox”. Due to innovation of this

idea, it’s only natural that Gregor would seek out innovative w

ays to create their urban bike, and that’s w

hen he reached out to Sculpteo. Gregor learned about 3D

printing about 5 years ago; he saw it in

the media and it struck him

as a great option for prototyping and iterating. And he’s right! The m

ost affordable way to test a prototype

is with additive m

anufacturing, and because the price point of their product w

ill be higher than traditional electric bikes currently on the m

arket they opted to use a professional 3D service vs purchase and

use an FDM

printer.

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Prototyping with 3D

printing is fast and relatively inexpensive. Gregor Fras think the future of crafting new

products lies in 3D printing.

He absolutely loved Sculpteo service design, and enjoyed our great

website, sm

art updates and unbeatable delivery times.

Noordung states that they are the first to address the user experience

of listening to music w

hile biking in an appropriate way. Gregor

jokingly states “the Noordung idea can be com

pared to Tesla meeting

dr. Dre”. The prototype for the N

oordung “Powerbox” w

as created in both w

hite plastic and black plastic with SLS technology, how

ever w

ith the final prototype the powerbox w

as manufactured in carbon

and aluminum

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ELECTRICMO

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is not your average scooter, it comes equipped w

ith a custom

designed e-motor that com

bines great power density and an optim

ized w

eight. With so m

uch stability, comfort, you’ll realize that no aspect w

as overlooked w

ith an ‘air cushion’ ride. Not only the ride is im

pressive, it’s eco friendly. The ELECTRICM

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D uses a sim

ple wall outlet and a full charge

offers 12 miles of free range. W

hen you’re done scooting, you can simply

fold up the ELECTRICMO

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and the ergonomic design lets you drag the

transporter like a suitcase!

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Launched thanks to the crowdfunding w

ebsite ww

w.indiegogo.com

, this beautiful product is the result of 4 years of intense developm

ent and testing. Sculpteo w

as the prototyping choice for creator David Libault in the early

stages of the product’s design. In fact, 3D printing w

as the only manufacturing

process Libault was aw

are of for prototyping his parts destined further for an injection m

old. 3D printing w

as by far the most suitable tool for his

project: its the most affordable, easiest and quickest m

anufacturing process to produce prototypes. It helped D

avid Libault’s realize his project with

restricted funds.

Powerful,

well

designed, safe

and sm

art…

We’re

talking about

the ELECTRICM

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artest portable transportation. Entrepreneur D

avid Libault explains how 3D printing helped build this e-Scooter into a

success.

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Prototyping is a very important step in the developm

ent of a product. It confirm

s the functionality of specific parts and also helps to validate the appearance of the product. H

owever, prototyping can be

quite tricky. David Libault experienced the difficulties to m

odelize the prototypes w

ith the accurate measurem

ent and went w

ith Sculpteo to resolve those issues.

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ELECTRICMO

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is set to appear on the market in O

ctober of 2015. H

undreds have already been preordered through indiegogo, and more

will undoubtedly com

e once it hits the shelves. We here at Sculpteo

are related to be a part of the project because this is all about what

Sculpeo is meant to do: carry the 3D

printing revolution!

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