3D Printing Great Tool for Displays, Exhibits and Promotions

Development model shown to Portland city council for project approval.

Capture the imagination of your Customers and Patrons with Unique Displays:

Architecture

• Turn around in as little as 24 hours means more time to perfect your designs.
• Embedded textures lets you simulate the colors of building materials like brick, stone and wood.
• Small features lets you design realistic windows, doors, beams, facades and other important visual design elements.
• Prints come directly from your BIM models.

Marketing

• Get your products in front of customers where it would otherwise be difficult or impossible.
• Customize marketing materials with logos and designs.
• Infinite customization to achieve the exact effects you desire.
• Get concept models in front of customers early in the product development cycle to get feedback before spending too much money on the wrong track.
• Get tangible products in your customers hands instead of a 2D computer image.

Promotions

• Pens and magnets are boring and forgettable. Make a promotional giveaway your customer has never before seen.
• Come to us with nothing but an idea for a promotional product and we can take care of the rest.
• Personalize your giveaways to the exact customer you are handing it to with custom messaging.
• Many promotional products require expensive tooling and long lead times to accomplish - RapidMade can make your promotional products in a week or less.

Displays

• Drive traffic to your stores at the window and sales with custom retail displays.
• Stand out and get attention at your next trade show with eye catching models.
• Capture your customers' attention and make them remember your brand
• Lean on our design team to come up with a creative solution that will satisfy your customers and be flexible for your budget.

Exhibits

• Store geometric and color data for priceless artifacts and works of art permanently with 3D scanning technology.
• Use digital object data to engage visitors online with interactive web exhibits.
• Create to-scale or re-scale replicas that let your visitors safely interact with models of priceless artifacts without endangering the original piece.
• Create complimentary pieces for your exhibit from object data scanned by other museums around the world.

RapidMade Advantages:

• Color: with almost 400,000 colors to choose from, why skimp?
• Size: scale-down huge machines or buildings to hand-held or table-sized replicas
• Logistics: avoid lugging heavy machinery to trade shows
• Creativity: turn your BIM and CAD models into tangible marketing materials
• Carefree: leave the design and fabrication to us, just supply the ideas

3D Scanning Works as High Tech Insurance Policy

Photo Credit: Joe Shearer/The Daily Nonpareil via AP

Iowans have 3D scanned the historic Dark Angel Statue in Council Bluff, IA in an effort to preserve this piece of art. The statue, officially a memorial to the wife of a local Civil War general, is 96 years old and was sculpted by Daniel Chester French, who is better known for another work of his-the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The people of Council Bluffs raised enough money to get the statue scanned so that if any parts break off or if it falls into disrepair, it can be easily replicated with the exact dimensions of the original design. The community is happy with its investment in the preservation of the local landmark and historic work of art.

If only ancient Egyptians had had the technology, we would know what the Sphinx’s nose looked like.

Cambridge University "Makes No Bones" about Using 3D Printing to Recreate Replicas

Photo Credit:  NewHistorian.com

We've written before about using 3D printing to create artwork and artifacts.  These stories are especially interesting to us given that RapidMade has been privileged to 3D print both originals and replicas.  And apparently we are in good company...

In another brilliant example of this approach, Cambridge University is 3D scanning and printing reproductions of Ox bones.  During the Shang Dynasty in China, roughly 1339 BCE-1112 BCE, oracles would inscribe their writings on Ox bones which are being recreated for research and educational purposes. These bones provide insight into the way of life during the Shang Dynasty. Archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians alike can now safely continue to learn from the information contained in these bones while ensuring their preservation.  The university’s collection contains over 600 bones (that is a lot of scanning and printing) which will now be more readily available for study due to these replicas.