3D fashion is an exciting way to learn!

[Cinter]

Our obsession with printing jewellery on our Makerbot Replicator 2 started from the outset when it landed on our desk last October. We wanted our first prints to not only be creative and experimental but small and simple so that they could be printed easily.

Creating our first jewellery designs allowed us to learn how to use the machine to its best effect. As design engineers with a passion for materials, Igneous jewellery came about from early adoption of materials like Laybrick and Laywood. It gave us so much opportunity to mess around with surface finish, texture and colour.

We are often asked how we created the animal head designs (see unicorn photo which is one of our first prints). Our process takes two outlines, gathered from front and side view photos, cross-extruded in Rhino software and later taken into mesh mixer to do the final contouring.

For us creating a jewellery collection was a little experiment. We wanted to see if in 4 weeks we could create something from a desktop 3D printer which we could commercially sell. Our collection sold out in the Barbican Centre, London within a few weeks.

As you can see we are now starting to play about with colour and are looking forward to making more COOL stuff very soon.

If you have any questions don’t hesitate to drop me a line at charlotte@cinterdesign.com

Signing out, thanks for reading

Charlotte Downs, Co-Director at Cinter

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[gabriela3d]

Awesome jewelry, thanks so much for sharing it with us! My, my, those earings

[Filemon]

Really cool! Is the gradient done by just putting different materials after each other?

[Cinter]

Thanks guys! So to answer Filemon’s question, using the pause setting on the Makerbot during a build offers a wide range of added functionality. Not only can you pause it if you want to leave it unattended or to just check the progress of your build but you can also change the filament. The coloured jewellery is a great example of this, it is how we have achieved different layers/gradients of colour in the build.

Something I am keen to try is to reduce our filament waste using this setting. Collecting our shorter lengths of filament which wouldn’t be enough for a complete build and putting them together so they can create a completed object. I’ll let you know how it goes

Thanks again,

Charlotte