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3D Printing News Briefs: February 6, 2018

Valentine’s Day is next week, so we’ll start today’s 3D Printing News Briefs off with a heartwarming story, before moving on to 3D printed models, and plenty of business news….

Tiny 3D Printed Model of Manhattan Shatters Kickstarter Funding Goals within a Few Days

Have you ever wandered around a major city and felt completely dwarfed by your surroundings? I felt that way on a recent visit to New York City. It’s one thing…

Help Voodoo Manufacturing 3D Print a Crowd-Sourced City

New York-based 3D printing services bureau Voodoo Manufacturing is teaming up with Wide Open Arts to assemble a crowd-sourced 3D printed city. The city will be called Babel and is…

Ultimaker’s Olsson Block Enables Architectural Firm to 3D Print a City in No Time

One of the really neat things about 3D printing, in my opinion, is how its development has been such a collaborative effort. The technology has advanced so rapidly largely because we…

3D Printed Dubai: Huge 3 x 2 Meter Model of the City is 3D Printed by Generation 3D

Dubai is a modern-day city which has been built up over the past several decades, thanks to the discovery of oil in the region in the late 1960s. Since then,…

Designer Creates 3D Printable, Wearable Cities Through Shapeways

After graduating from college, I spent a year pursuing a Master’s Degree in Dublin, Ireland. While I loved the city, the highlights of my time overseas were the inexpensive flights…

Guild Creates Futuristic 3D Printed City for Anki OVERDRIVE Robotic Car System

While we’ve done many stories in the past linking the use of 3D printing to futuristic robotics that various companies have been working on, one company which we have not…

Architects to Prepare Massive 3D Printed Replica of Moldova’s Capital City, Chișinău

Not only do we live in an incredibly progressive and changing world, we have multiple ways to check it out as it looks in real time, seeing the big picture…

The Future of London Visualized with this Massive, Interactive 3D Printed Model

Have you ever returned to a neighborhood or town that you moved away from years earlier and started to feel discombobulated when the small changes start to jump out at…

Oslo, Norway Makes 3D Printing an Integral Part of Future Urban Planning with 3D Printed Model of City

If you visit the Agency for Planning and Building Services in Oslo, you’ll see the results of the agency’s monumental effort to create a complex, small-scale model of the Norwegian…

Filipino Architects at WTA Studios Present Stunning 3D Presentation of Manila’s Growth

With the reliance of 3D models in architecture, 3D printing inserted itself into the field almost instantly, attracting architects and professionals already using traditional methods to produce tangible models for…

Incredible 26,000 Piece, 16,146 sqft 3D Printed Model of 18th Century St. Petersburg, Russia

We have seen several interesting models of cities constructed via 3D printing. We saw LeapFrog print a massive model of ‘The Forbidden City’, while Autodesk teamed with real estate developer…