3D Printing and its Effect on the Fashion Industry: It's More Than Just About Intellectual Property

When most people think about 3D Printing and the fashion industry, they immediately focus on the intellectual property consequences.

While there certainly are a myriad of intellectual property issues that must be addressed right now, there are several other areas that will be equally affected.

This paper will discuss how 3D Technology will affect the supply chain, employment opportunities, entrepreneurialism, tariffs, and other subject matter.

Since the technology is in its evolutionary cycle, many of the concerns to be discussed are forward-looking and of-the-moment; consequently, a deep dive into any given area is impractical.

Rather, this paper will address topics from a bird’s eye view and conclude with

thought provoking and sometimes unanswered (or even unanswerable) questions that readers should store in the back of their minds as they watch the technology improve and unfold.

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Free Jewelry 3D Printing Models for Download

2.189 free 3D Jewelry models ready for 3D printing with FDM, SLA, SLS and other types of 3D printing technologies.

https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-print-models/jewelry

Yeggi: El Google de la Impresión 3D

Creada en abril de 2013 por Sebastien Karpp, Yeggi reúne ya más de 2.3 millones de Modelos 3D en una sola plataforma que ha estado creciendo constantemente desde que entró en funcionamiento.

Puedes elegir el Modelo 3D que más te convenga, pues Yeggi te enviará directamente a la plataforma desde la que podrás descargar el modelo: Cults3D, MyMiniFactory, Thingiverse, etc.

Yeggi ofrece tambien la posibilidad de crear una cuenta gratuita a la que asociar una lista de Modelos 3D y seguir palabras clave específicas para estar informado cada vez que se publique un nuevo Archivo 3D sobre el tema en cuestión.

Anisotropy of additively manufactured AlSi10Mg: threads and surface integrity

Implementing Additive Manufacturing in an industry, particularly for critical applications of lightweight aluminum (AlSi10Mg), requires part properties that are both accurate and precise to conform to the intent of a robust design. In this experimental study, the objective was to evaluate anisotropy in part properties (i.e., flatness, surface roughness, surface porosity, surface hardness, pre-hole shrinkage, drilling thrust force, and thread-stripping force) when the part orientation (i.e., print inclination and recoater angle) was independently changed. This study developed and investigated an innovative procedure for determining anisotropy in part properties.

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The Top-10 3D-Printable Gadgets for Xbox One

Hi gamers! Tired of confinement by the Covid-19? If you have the XBox One and a 3D Printer at hand, here I show you some gadgets for XBox, ready to download and print in 3D.

Xbox One S/X Wall Mounts

There are 3 different bottom mounts. A bottom left and right that has side tabs to keep the Xbox from sliding and one without tabs. The bottom wall mounting holes should be 8 1/4" apart for the Xbox One S. This prevents the mounts from blocking any of the air vents.

Controller Wall Hanger

A standard wall-attachable mount for hanging 2 console controllers. It can be attached to the wall either via 1/16" holes for pushpins or with an adhesive such as Command strips. Designed to be printable on a 7x7" build plate with no supports.

Xbox One Riser

These console risers are intended to lift an original Xbox One safely above a Playstation 4. When your entertainment center is crunched for space, placing the PS4 on top of the Xbox One may seem like the obvious solution... WRONG! Most of the air vents on the Xbox are directly on top and blocking those is begging for you console to overheat. The inverse (Xbox on top of PS4) isn't the most stable of stacking situations. So, the Xbox risers are simple solution to a simple problem.

Xbox One controller mini wheel

Rack and pinion steering for your xbox controller. 100 degrees of rotation. Enjoy finer control in racing games.

Xbox One Controller Stand

This is just an Xbox One controller stand but with the Xbox logo.

Xbox controller and headset wall mount

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3045545

XBOX ONE Thumbstick Controller Extension

Thumb stick for a standard XBOX ONE controller.

Desk Clamp Xbox Controller Holder

This is a desk holder for the controller clam grips (also works for controllers without the grips).

Modular controller stands for multiple consoles

Current set includes stands for Xbox 360, Xbox One, Gamecube, Nintendo Switch Pro, Steam, and Playstation 4. They're designed to snap to each other, and work in almost all combinations. The Steam controller is the only one that cannot be behind a Gamecube controller due to the unusually large size of the Steam controller. A spacer is included for wired Gamecube controllers, so there's space to place the coiled up cable and rest it besides the controller.

Xbox Power supply wall mount

YouMagine: More than you imagine

YouMagine is an online community of 3D Printing Enthusiasts who wish to work together to share, remix and make better 3D Printed Things.

YouMagine facilitates this community, empowers and gives you the tools you need in order to improve, invent & make.

Uniquely YouMagine is primarily a vehicle for supporting open source creation and wants to be a force multiplier for the entire 3D Printing Community. 

Uniquely they are focused on building the entire end to end open source software toolchain to make things malleable.

YouMagine wants CAD & 3D Files to be as easy to create, adapt, share and change as text is nowadays.

The Top-7 3D Model Sources from A to Z

If you are not a professional or a designer, you may need a lot of time to design 3D Models since it involved a lot of imagination, creativity, and skills to build from scratch.

There are tons of online websites available that provide 3d Models free to download. You can download the models for free and feed directly into your printer, or you can customize to meet your need.

To make your life easy, I am listing the top-7 websites to download 3D Models for 3D Printers.

GrabCAD

GrabCAD, from Stratasys, helps engineers get products to market faster by connecting people, content and technology. GrabCAD Workbench makes it easy for engineers to share files, work with partners and complete projects on time.

NIH 3D Print Exchange

The NIH 3D Print Exchange provides models in formats that are readily compatible with 3D printers, and offers a unique set of tools create and share 3D-printable models related to biomedical science.

Pinshape

A curated collection of 3D-printable designs. Some are free and some require payment to download.

Repables

3D printable file repository.

SketchFab Cultural Heritage (Creative Commons)

A collection of public domain cultural heritage 3D models. 

Thingiverse

The grandaddy of 3D model sites, Thingiverse has over 100.000 models and is easy to add to and "remix" your own versions. There are groups you can join, rating systems for models, and challenges where you can compete to complete a task.

YouMagine

A community to share, remix and make better 3D Printed Things.

Take advantage of quarantine time discovering useful free applications to learn how to model in 3D with your iPad

There are many iPad applications made for 3D Design out there. However, things get even more complicated when you realize that most 3D Design applications are targeted towards visualization or fun rather than 3D Printing. Fortunately, there are some of the best 3D Design apps for iPad that actually fit into a 3D Printing Workflow. Alright then, time to jump head-long into the world of mobile 3D Printing. Find out now some interesting applications to discover:

Sculptura: An app that hopes to satisfy all your virtual clay-morphing cravings. The simple set of tools available makes it most suitable for creating base meshes, which are then exported to desktop modeling software for more granular edits.

Shapr3D: Allows you to create concepts on the go, all of which can be exported to desktop software for more granular editing at any time. One of the most functional and reliable mobile apps out there for parametric modeling.

uMake: An application that takes advantage from the touch input to offer an easier approach to modeling. A nice bonus is the ability to view your 3D designs in augmented reality.

¿Could Chinese Cyber Army use 3D Printing to cheat The Pentagon?

“Biometrics are not an Achilles heel,” said Craig Williams, director of Cisco Talos Outreach. “Biometrics are something that makes it very, very easy to use. You don’t have to remember a password. You don’t have to enter a password, which makes it very fast and easy. You don’t have to carry anything around with you. And so I think for most users, it’s still perfectly fine.”

However, it’s possible to use 3D printing technology to create “fake fingerprints” suitable to cheat most fingerprint scanners from Apple, Microsoft and Samsung mobile products: Researchers with Cisco Talos created different threat models that use 3D printing technology, and then tested them on mobile devices (including the iPhone 8 and Samsung S10), laptops (including the Samsung Note 9, Lenovo Yoga and HP Pavilion X360) and smart devices (such as a smart padlock).

The fake fingerprints achieved an 80 percent success rate on average, where the sensors were bypassed at least once. Researchers did not have success in defeating biometrics systems in place on Microsoft Windows 10 devices (though they said that this does not mean they are not necessarily safer; just that this particular approach did not work).