Four Ideas For Customizing Everyday Products with 3D Printing (& Grasshopper)!
In this video tutorial, we explore four different ideas that take advantage of the power of 3D Printing and Parametric Design to customize everyday objects!
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Getting to know... Distributed Manufacturing!
Distributed manufacturing makes goods close to where they're used. What it is, why it's growing, and four steps to adopt it in your business.
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Top 5 Things I Learned While Creating A Lamborghini Configurator!
Automotive designer Michele Farina on five lessons from building a Lamborghini configurator in Grasshopper: booleans, parameters, shadows, lights, and decals.
Michele Farina
Getting to know... Computational Design!
What computational design is, who uses it, and what it can do, from automotive and AEC to apparel. A guest post by Christine Evans of Fictiv.
Christine Evans
Desktop vs Cloud Computation Time Explained!
Why a Grasshopper model responds differently online than in Rhino: the four steps from a parameter change to the new 3D view, caching included.
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Improving Construction With Additive Manufacturing
Four obstacles that slow the use of 3D printing in construction (technology, costs, regulation, and interest), and what could change next.
Ezequiel López and Alex Walzer
On Local Resilience During COVID-19 Times
How the COVID-19 crisis showed the value of local manufacturing, and how online co-design and product configurators can support makers.
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ABT’s Christmas Design Challenge 2019
ABT, a Dutch engineering firm, invites its staff to design Christmas objects in Grasshopper every year. The 2019 designs, published on ShapeDiver.
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What’s The Designer’s Role In 2020 And Beyond?
Victor Alonso da Silva, CEO of BLECAUTE, on computational design, how the studio started, and why co-design is the designer's new role.
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3D Printing Robots At Maker Faire 2019 in Italy!
Annapaola Vacanti on POS3D, a workshop at Maker Faire 2019 in Rome where visitors designed their own robot on ShapeDiver and watched it being 3D printed.
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Why I Switched From SketchFab To ShapeDiver To Create Product Configurators
Grasshopper expert Edwin Hernández compares Sketchfab and ShapeDiver for building product configurators, and why he chose ShapeDiver.
Edwin Hernández
Product Configurators Explained!
What product configurators are, why e-commerce adopted them from Nike to IKEA, and the technologies behind them, parametric design included.
Mathieu Huard
