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Trimensional: MakerBot Edition!

Trimensional And MakerBot Make It Even Easier To 3D Scan And Create With Your iPhone

May 15, 2010 (Brooklyn, NY) – Today, MakerBot Industries and Trimensional, LLC have released a groundbreaking new app that lets you scan an object, upload it to the Internet, and make a physical replica on a MakerBot 3D printer, all in one quick and seamless process.

MakerBot is the company that revolutionized the way people make things. The Replicator™ by MakerBot is a 3D printer that can make almost anything you can imagine using a digital 3D design file.

Trimensional, LLC has just released the newest version of their popular 3D scanning app for iPhone –  Trimensional: MakerBot Edition. This highly-rated app allows a user to scan something, such as a friend’s face, and turn it immediately into a 3D model. This model can be “printed” to make a physical object for the user to hold.

Trimensional: MakerBot Edition has a new set of features that help a user take a quick four-second scan of something using an iPhone. That scan is then easily uploaded to Thingiverse.com, a vibrant community site powered by MakerBot which boasts free, downloadable designs for more than 20,000 objects.

Regarding the new collaboration, MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis said, “Trimensional: MakerBot Edition is the quickest way to scan something.  It’s simple, fun, and you can then make models of your friends, children, and anything else you can point your iPhone at.”

Trimensional: MakerBot Edition allows you to:

-Capture your own 3D scans in 4 seconds, with 54,626 polygons per scan
-Browse your 3D scan library
-Rotate and zoom your 3D models
-Pick from 6 different 3D rendering modes
-Share images, videos, and animated GIFs via email
-Export STL, OBJ, PLY via email
-Upload your design to Thingiverse.

Trimensional: MakerBot Edition is currently available on the App Store.

ABOUT TRIMENSIONAL

www.trimensional.com

Trimensional brings 3D scanning technology to smartphones, giving consumers the easiest, fastest, and most affordable way to create 3D models of their faces and other objects. The Trimensional app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch has held the #1 spot for paid photography apps in 25 countries.

Trimensional has been featured live on CNN,  as well as in print and online at New Scientist, Fast Company, The New York Times, Popular Science, Gizmodo, and more.

You can find the Trimensional:  MakerBot Edition app on the App Store at:

http://itunes.apple.com/app/trimensional-makerbot-edition/id524309607?mt=8

http://www.trimensional.com/makerbot/

 

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MakerBot Industries: Robots That Make Things!

MakerBot Industries is a company founded in January 2009 by Bre Pettis, Adam Mayer, and Zach Smith producing an open source 3D printer to democratize manufacturing. MakerBot is a machine that can make you almost anything!

The MakerBot Replicator™ is the ultimate personal 3D printer, with MakerBot Dualstrusion™ (2-color printing) and a bigger printing footprint, giving you the superpower to print things BIG! Assembled in Brooklyn by skilled technicians, the MakerBot Replicator™ is ready within minutes to start printing right out of the box. The MakerBot Replicator™ is an affordable, open source 3D printer that is compact enough to sit on your desktop.With a build envelope that’s roughly the size of a loaf of bread, The MakerBot Replicator™ gives you the power to go big. Make an entire chess set with the press of a button. Friends, classmates, co-workers, and family will see the things you make and say “Wow!”

The MakerBot Replicator™ creates anything you can imagine with the new MakerBot Stepstruder™ MK8, the extruder is the part of the machine that turns raw feedstock, like ABS (what Lego® is made of) or PLA (a biodegradable material made from corn), into the objects you desire. You can order your MakerBot Replicator™ with single or dual MakerBot Stepstruders on it. By choosing the dual extrusion option, you’ll print with two different colors at the same time. MakerBot Dualstrusion™ unlocks the ability to make beautiful combinations of colors and opens the door to experimenting with with multi-material objects.

The MakerBot Replicator™ is ideal for personalized manufacturing, providing a new way to make the things you want and need. It is also an essential tool for children and students; parents and educators with a MakerBot Replicator™ offer the next generation an opportunity to learn the digital designing skills required to solve the problems of the future. Students with access to a MakerBot have an edge in the future job market. Just like the youth of the 1980’s, who had access to computers, children with access to a MakerBot Replicator™ will become the leaders who make a better tomorrow.

The MakerBot Replicator™ is the tool from tomorrow, today. In the two years since the company was founded, the capabilities of a MakerBot have grown from printing cupcake-sized objects in 2009 to printing things as large as an entire loaf of bread today on on the MakerBot Replicator™. MakerBot Industries continues to demonstrate its dedication to putting the tools of creativity into the hands of the those brilliant and bold enough to bring their imagination into the physical world.

MakerBot Industries has an online community at Thingiverse.com where users can post digital design files, document their designs, and collaborate on open source hardware. The site is not just for MakerBot, but also for anyone with a digital fabrication device to share their designs.

MakerBot Industries was named one of the top 20 startups in NYC, and has been featured in The New York Times, Wired, Colbert Report, Fast Company, Engadget, Make: Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Time.com, IEEE Spectrum, CNN, Financial Times, NPR, the Economist and others.