Cubify Design includes 2D rendering features making it simple to share drawings when co-creating with others.
Users can view models as they will appear in the physical world with accuracy and full motion.
Cubify Design comes with a 14-day free trial, is priced at $199 and available now on Cubify, the online destination for all things 3D printing.Ĭubify Design packs a powerful feature set that includes the ability to create assemblies allowing for interaction and motion within parts of a design. When used in combination with Cubify Sculpt’s organic modeling and mash up capabilities, users will discover endless potential for their dynamic ideas. Cubify Design is ideal for complex projects requiring real-world functionality and accuracy. Kindly loaned to us for review by uk.dynamism.ROCK HILL, South Carolina –Octo– 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) announced today the immediate availability of Cubify ® Design™, a powerful parametric CAD tool built on the same foundational skills mastered in entry-level Cubify Invent and completes the advanced 3D printing toolbox for CubeX users. The second-gen Cubify Cube 3D printer is the future, right here, right now - the journey starts here and when 3D printing is as commonplace as any other printing in the future we can all look back, fondly, at where it began to infiltrate the home environment. If you want to explore, or are actually looking to use the Cubify for prototyping models, game pieces, or something else on a regular basis for your work, then the Cube 3D printer is perfect for that.
Which we expect it will, because at £1200 it's no casual purchase that's for sure.
If you're serious about it and know your CAD software then there's stacks of potential - it just needs to end up in the right hands. Yes, there are limitations - but for the most part these are to be expected and at the entry-level position the Cube 3D printer pitches itself at.īe warned though, there is the strong opportunity for this to be a five-minute wonder where you print whatever you can find on the internet and then the printer sits on your desk for the next six months doing nothing. The Cubify Cube 3D printer makes 3D printing in the home a reality and certainly gives you a starting block that's ideal to explore what's possible.
This is very much a preferable PC application. The Cube 3D printer does comes with its own dedicated printing software for both Windows and Mac. We used the Mac version and it's fair to say that it's clunky. Something like MeshLab will work, or Adobe has added compatibility with the format in the latest Photoshop CC software. This is the typical file type output of a 3D design program or software tool. This carries the three-dimensional computer-aided design (CAD) content that defines the geometry to be printed. The Cube 3D printer is compatible with the industry standard STL file format. Sometimes a blank canvas can be a stumbling block. It's really helpful in helping you get to grips with what is possible and means that you can be printing something almost as soon as you've got it out of the box.
The Cube doesn't come complete with creation software - that's an additional cost - but does include 25 free 3D files designed by professional artists to get you started. Teacups, chess pieces, Lego parts, jewellery, dinosaurs, the list is endless if your imagination is. That might sound small but that still gives you plenty of options to make things that you can use to litter your home with.
That's a maximum 140mm tall, deep and wide. Within that price bracket there's a limitation to the size of an object that you can create - anything within a cubic 140mm square, hence the name. Fun stuff.Īt £1200 it is still expensive, though, but that's about as cheap as you can buy at the moment. The Cubify 3D is available in Silver, White, Magenta, Blue or Green finishes - rather than the boring beige standard - for a bit of added personality. It sits taller than a standard paper printer too, but takes up about the same amount of desk space. It looks a bit like a sewing machine in some respects - not like a standard printer. It is fairly small and can easily be put on your desk in an office. While you can get industrial-sized 3D printers that are the size of a cupboard and are used by the likes of Microsoft to design the Xbox One, the Cube is a lot more suited to a home user or someone starting out. The material comes out of a cartridge hot, but quickly dries into a hard resin and the printing plinth moves up and down accordingly as it builds up those layers. Printer ink this isn't - ABS is the same material used by Lego. Once it's got the instructions, the Cubify gets to work building up your object by printing fine layers of PLA or ABS materials on top of each other.