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With the Doodle3D sketching tool you can 3D print your own personal drawings on a 3D printer! Start 3D printing your own doodle now!

(…more Info kickstarter.com/projects/companje/doodle3d)

3D printers are becoming increasingly common. Architects, technicians, designers and inventors all make use of this technique to create the most beautiful and complex shapes in the blink of an eye. But not only professionals spend their time printing in three dimensions. A growing amount of consumers buy 3D printers or visit so-called ‘FabLabs’ where these printers are publically accessible.

There are websites with countless 3D designs available for download so people can easily print other people’s vase, toy car or iPhone case. But wouldn’t it be more fun to create your own designs? Most definitely, yet designing and printing your own objects requires specific knowledge of complex 3D design programs. Rick Companje, founder of Doodle3D also ran into this problem.
A Mediatechnology graduate and co-founder of Globe4D and FabLab Amersfoort, Rick is at the frontier of many new technologies. In this Dutch Fabrication Laboratory he spends his time lasercutting, CNC milling and working with other digitally driven tools. Though his results with the 3D printer were limited by his little experience with 3D design software.

For this reason Rick started developing Doodle3D, a very simple sketching tool with which anyone can bring their hand-drawn drawings come to life with a 3D printer, but without having the steep learning curve of 3D CAD programs.
It works like this; you make a drawing on a tablet, smartphone or computer, connect the Doodle3D WiFi Box to the 3D printer, and with the press of a button your drawing is sent to the printer. The printer builds, layer for layer, the 3D model out of heated plastic, which immediatly cools and solidifies into a rigid 3D shape. The beauty of it is that your Doodle will be completely unique! But you can do more with Doodle3D. A simple starting shape – like a circle – can be extruded, turned, twisted and bent into a spatial 3D object. This way your flat 2D drawing becomes an interesting 3D object with very few actions.

In order to finish the development of Doodle3D and share it with the world the Doodle3D team is launching a campaign on kickstarter.com on the 17th of April, (7 AM CET, 1 AM EST). By pledging for the Doodle3D project backers can receive one of our WiFi Boxes, or a different reward and support the development of this project. The raised money will be used by the team to facilitate Doodle3D’s compatibility with every mainstream OS and every 3D printer, and offcourse make the rewards a reality! Accessible 3D printing for everyone!

Support the project on http://doodle3d.com/kickstarter or check out www.doodle3d.com for more information.

(Quelle: www.doodle3d.com)