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20 years ago graphic designers were facing another massive shift in their market: the internet. Many graphic designers who didn’t learn web design skills found themselves without jobs. Businesses wanted designers who could not only create graphics, but also the web pages to display them on. 3D design has the potential to leave just asRead more

You’re busy. Your clients are busy. And that leads to frustrations between you. Your architecture clients don’t want to spend time examining blueprints and plans that they don’t know how to read (or they don’t know how to read well). The time you spend showing them how to read those blueprints could be better spentRead more

SAN FRANCISCO and COLUMBIA, S.C., June 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — ZVerse today announced that they have partnered with PlanGrid to integrate its Design On-Demand platform with PlanGrid, the leader in construction productivity software. The integration makes it easy for contractors, building owners, engineers and architects to create 3D printed models from existing assets, such as blueprints and scan data. The process forRead more

GAITHERSBURG, Md. and COLUMBIA, S.C., April 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Xometry, the largest on-demand manufacturing platform, has partnered with ZVerse, the leading 3D design on-demand platform, to create manufacturable 3D files for customers who need parts designed from scratch, existing CAD files modified or legacy parts reverse engineered. “A common manufacturing roadblock we see is that a customer needs a partRead more

The Small Business Administration talks about it, marketing associations talk about it. Business owners and executives throw it out in conversation. If you’ve been involved in marketing a business at any point in the past ten years, you’ve probably heard the term: content marketing. It’s definitely become a buzzword. And big brands like John Deere,Read more

You’ve been tasked with donor relations – and you don’t know what to use as a thank-gift. There are so many options out there. And the ones you can afford, well, they’re a bit overdone. The ideas you love would cost more than your organization gets in donations! But what if there was a wayRead more

When research chemist Vin Smentkowski slipped on some ice and fell while walking his family dog, X-rays showed he had a fracture in his ankle. But after weeks, the fracture wasn’t healing properly. Further X-rays couldn’t reveal why. So his doctor sent him to have 3D computer tomography imaging done on his ankle. The 3D image revealedRead more

There just aren’t enough choices. Sometimes you really want a product, but you don’t buy it. Because the colors don’t work. Because it’s just a little too small or a little too big. You’re like Goldilocks: you only want to spend money if it’s just right. And you are not alone. There’s another trend that’s developedRead more

In 1985, Disney used computer graphics in the animated movie The Black Cauldron. In 1986, Pixar created “the first fully computer-generated, computer-animated (or CGI) film.” And it all went downhill from there. Just kidding. Many of our favorite animated movies contain elements of computer generation or animation – even the ones we like to think were all hand-drawn.Read more

If 3D printers can do all of the things we say they can do, then certainly they can print themselves, right? Yes…and no. It’s definitely possible to 3D print parts for a 3D printer. But not all parts can be printed yet. However, projects like RepRap are working to change that. Creating a Self-Replicating 3DRead more