3D Printing Event Challenge 2nd edition

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Suppose you had a 3D printer at home. Design the first consumer product you would like to 3D print and use.

Realize that you can go far beyond the traditional mass manufactured products.

Winners will be announced on October 23, 2012 during the 3D Printing Event 2012

Requirements

A 3D Printing at Home Competition entry must be an .STL or .OBJ file and max. 4 images
The description should briefly describe why you have chosen for that specific product and design
The overall size of the 3D Printing at Home Competition model must be no larger than 10" x 10" x 10" (254 x 254 x 254 mm)
Criteria used by the jury are: Degree of innovation, Functionality and Usefulness, 3D printablity, Aesthetic quality, Ergonomics, Marketability, Feasibility, Quality and clarity of presentation materials.
Entry to this competition is reserved for Individuals from every country in the world
Tag your model to "3DPrintingEvent"

Rules

Participation is open to anyone, from any country, who can design 3D objects
Registration is free and applicants must accept the underlying conditions
Any entry that does not include an .STL or .OBJ file, will be considered ineligible for the contest
Any entry that is not correct and not printable, will be considered ineligible for the contest
Members of staff of Jakajima and GrabCAD, Shapeways, Leapfrog, David-Laserscanner are not allowed to participate in the competition. Neither do spouses and family members of staff of the aforementioned companies and groups, and, in general, any persons involved in the planning and organisation of the competition, whether directly or indirectly
By entering this competition, you 1. Warrant that the work is your original work. 2. To the best of your knowledge, it is not, and has not been in production or otherwise previously published or exhibited. 3. Neither the work nor its use infringes the intellectual property rights (whether a patent, utility model, functional design right, aesthetic design right, trade mark, copyright or any other intellectual property right) of any other person
Acknowledge that you are solely responsible for the protection of any intellectual property rights you may have in the work
All 3D Printing at Home Competition entries (including descriptions, designs and/or images) submitted to 3D Printing at Home Competition will remain property of the designer but can be used by 3D Printing at Home Competition / GrabCAD/ Jakajima for promotional purposes
Applicants are not entitled to any compensation or reimbursement for any costs. The applicant’s participation shall not constitute employment, assignment or offer of employment or assignment
Jakajima will use the personal data you submit in connection with the competition for the purpose of administering the competition and evaluating the work
By entering this competition you authorize Jakajima to use your name and to exhibit the work publicly, all for the purpose of this competition, and accept that Jakajima and the competition organizers are not responsible for any damages which you may suffer or claim to suffer by or as a result of taking part in this competition, the authorized use of your entry and/or any decision by the jury
You can submit several designs

Prizes

1st prize: LeapFrog Creatr 3D Printer (value $1565) http://www.lpfrg.com/product/creatr/
2nd prize: 3D David-Laserscanner (value $563)
http://shop.david-vision-systems.de/product_info.php/language/en/info/p84_DAVID-Starter-Kit.html
3rd prize: 3D print of the model, sponsored by Shapeways of € 250,- (incl. shipment and VAT). See material limitations http://www.shapeways.com/materials
4th prize: GrabCAD T-Shirt
5th prize: GrabCAD T-Shirt
6th prize: GrabCAD T-Shirt

About the jury?

After the closing of the registration period (October 16 2012), the submissions will be judged by a panel of independent judges from various industries.

About 3D Printing Event

3D Printing is hot and is going to change the way we are living and working!

Still 3D printing is very much a technology driven activity applied by designers and engineers, although several companies / start ups are offering 3D printing services for individuals who want to have their own designed product replicated and sold to others on order.

The 3D printing industry is growing at a fierce rate, and there are four trends visible:

- the established industry is not only introducing new professional 3D printers with more and more functionality, but has started to bring low end 3D printers as well

- the open source community works hard to create 3D printers which can be used in personal and professional environments

-the biggest bottleneck is still the 3D software for making great designs easily

- 3D Printing services are playing a very important role in creating new business and new business opportunities.

The event contains four linked activities:

1) the seminar will tackle business, social, technical, legal, cultural and design challenges, discuss innovative solutions, show new business opportunities and will give an outlook into the future of 3D printer industry.

2) The exhibition will show 3D printing in its current and future formats.

3) The 3D Printing Design competition is arranged in cooperation with GrabCAD.

4) The Hackathon about new 3D design tools, which will take place 5 and 6 October 2,5 week before the event.

The Event will take place 23 October 2012, Seat2Meet, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

http://3dprintingevent.com

119 comments

Azrael 9 months ago

Can 3Dprinter make hollow or moving parts?

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Fateh MERRAD 9 months ago

Great challenge!!

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Romano Gaspari 9 months ago

great and serious competition guys! every challenge must be like this

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osiso 9 months ago

what are the tol specs for this printer? rule of thumb i've used for 3D printing is that it is equivalent to injection molding. is this accurate with this 3D printer?

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Pieter Hermans 9 months ago

@Azrael That shout be no problem

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Pieter Hermans 9 months ago

@Fateh MERRAD thanks, hope to see some great results

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William 9 months ago

Interesting comp will be great to see all the designs/products that get modelled for this comp :P

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EDISON PHOENIX 9 months ago

Great Competition...!!!

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reza 9 months ago

all right :)

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Tomas 9 months ago

:D I try to participate :) great competition :)

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Serjio Luchares 9 months ago

Legendary!))))

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JF Brandon 9 months ago

@Amin here it is http://3ddesigncompetition.com

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Tom Martin 9 months ago

Fun competition! What materials are allowed? plastic, metal, ceramic, etc.?

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375Designs 9 months ago

Are team entries allowed?

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teigan 9 months ago

in all honesty, too many of us would try and print a girlfriend.

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Ibrahim Sanih Ahmed 9 months ago

@teigan... hahaha... so true...

but on a serious note. i don't have any experience with a 3d printer. is there any link or any particular set of rules or guidelines for me to follow when creating my model?

the two things that i get is that the parts i model should be relatively simple. but i don't know about the types of materials allowed. like the main body might be plastic but the hinges might be metal etc etc.

thank you

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Frederik Vollbrecht 9 months ago

@ ibrahim may this could help
http://blog.ponoko.com/2012/03/14/10-excellent-tips-tutorials-on-3d-printing/

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Pieter Hermans 9 months ago

@375Designs you may enter the competition as a team, but you can win only one prize.

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Pieter Hermans 9 months ago

@Tom Martin
Good point. Basically any material, but it is obvious that designs based on special material can not be printed easily or can not be printed at all.

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Pieter Hermans 9 months ago

Don't forget to have a look at the 3D printing event site, http://3dprintingevent.com or Twitter @3dprintingevent #3dp12

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JF Brandon 9 months ago

@Pieter Hermans, are you printing on Shapeways? Should people check what materials are available there and what design tolerances are allowable?

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Stephen Nyberg 9 months ago

I have a question about:

"A 3D Printing at Home Competition entry must contain a .STL or .OBJ file along with a completed online submission form and max. 4 images"

What is the submission form? And does that mean we can only have a max of 4 rendering or are we supposed to put together a separate PDF or PowerPoint explaining our part that includes only 4 pictures?

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Chris Norman 9 months ago

Why print at Shapeways? This contest is about a 3D printer for your house! I'm just sayin!

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Ibrahim Sanih Ahmed 9 months ago

i'd also like to know about this submission form... and... why does the deadline keep saying about 1 month...

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Patrik Johansson 9 months ago

Is the model supposed to be printable on a specific machine or does it just have to be a printable *.stl? I mean, "printable" depends a lot on the which type of machine you print with.

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Aqil Ghaffar 9 months ago

can assembly and electric circuits be used to make different models or not

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simon winter 9 months ago

What type of printing is the model meant to be as this will create different restrictions to the level of complexity ( FDM, SLS, SLA, ect)

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Ibrahim Sanih Ahmed 9 months ago

i am done with my model... but still waiting for the above user queries to be answered before submitting... and while i wait i might as well try and make a mock cardboard prototype to see if this works as i think it would... mmmh

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Stephen Nyberg 9 months ago

Does anyone else feel that almost half the entries so far are not for this challenge?

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Brahim Koubaa 9 months ago

why the Deadline still always about 1 month ?

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Aqil Ghaffar 9 months ago

can assembly and electric circuits be used to make different models or not

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Ibrahim Sanih Ahmed 9 months ago

hahaha... @bibou: yes I have been wondering the same thing. hehehe...

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Romano Gaspari 9 months ago

@stephen Nyberg yes I do... Please guys, don't submit your entries if they are not agree to the challenge rules

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Ibrahim Sanih Ahmed 9 months ago

okay... this is getting ridiculous. why does it still say 'about 1 month' as the deadline?

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Kaspar Kiis 9 months ago

@Ibrahim and @BiBou as said in the description the deadline is 16 October.

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Ibrahim Sanih Ahmed 9 months ago

@Kaspar... hi hi... listen i only stated it cos' that seems to be the intended place to have that bit of information. whats the point of the developers leaving a quick reference notice then? just thinking out loud... or typing out loud to be specific...

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Ibrahim Sanih Ahmed 9 months ago

@Flaviano... hey I didn't get any message or notice of a spam report. It was a mistake so no worries yeah.

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Flaviano Crespi 9 months ago

@Ibrahim, Ok, that's good

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Stephen Nyberg 9 months ago

I have noticed a few entries that are not new to GrabCAD and have been entered into other challenges here at GrabCAD. Is this an acceptable practice? And if so, should I upload a new set of files and renderings to better stay in the guideline?

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Kaspar Kiis 9 months ago

@Stephen we haven't set restrictions submitting models that have already been submitted to other challenges. I would just say it is not a nice practice.

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Stephen Nyberg 9 months ago

would it bad practice to submit an older model if it was never for a challenge? I have a printed copy of my swizzle ball and it is cool so I thought it could be a good entry for this one but I don't want to use bad practices here.

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Stephen Nyberg 9 months ago

Is the max of 4 images for renders, or the number of files needed to make the model?

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Odysseas 9 months ago

I designed two models a month ago and when I had finished them I WISHED to had a 3D printer to print them. Can I upload them into the 3D Printing Event Challenge?? (because I had already uploaded them in the GrabCAD library.)

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Romano Gaspari 9 months ago

@odysseas erodotou add the right tag

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Leo Grignafini 8 months ago

Can i upload a model whit movement? or just something static. Thanks

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Hevi 8 months ago

Do I need upload model with fully functional mechanism of my idea?

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JF Brandon 8 months ago

@Leo @Hevi most 3D printers can make parts that are moveable...so yes.

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Hevi 8 months ago

No, I mean.... do I need upload fully functional model for this challenge? I would like to upload model that shows whole Idea, shape, 3d printable, but without mechanism :] ...it's my idea and I dont want to share it now... please understand that :]

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JF Brandon 8 months ago

Ah I understand - Sure, why not? You can share just a render

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John Frangella 8 months ago

has anyone been elected yet?

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Stephen Nyberg 8 months ago

@John Frangella - Elected to what?

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pedders 8 months ago

has two heads the printer where to print the design? I need to know if you can print in two materials: one of them that is soluble in water ...

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Robert de Roode 8 months ago

I build my own 3d printer (Mendel prusa) and if you want to have "floating parts" you need to slice the model with support structures enabled. But afterwards you need to cut these away,

better is to design it with angles not topping 45 degrees, else seperate and glue the parts together ;)

There are printers with multiple extruders but due the difference in heating (pla requires about 170 degrees, and ABS around 220) i would not recomend these together. Also, ABS is petrolium based and much stronger, while pla is more brittle but more "food friendly".

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Robert de Roode 8 months ago

On the topic, this one is easy, (im keeping this descreet), a pair of knitting needles for my wife!!!

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Hardi Meybaum 8 months ago

It's so much fun browsing the submissions for this Challenge.

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Robert Harnack 8 months ago

I have a question on my design. Who should I e-mail about that?

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Kaspar Kiis 8 months ago

@Robert, I would recommend you to ask a question here.

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Robert Harnack 8 months ago

Ok. Am i allowed to have more than one seperate part? like free floating parts? I have never worked with 3d printers before so i dont know

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Romano Gaspari 8 months ago

are private entries allowed?

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Kaspar Kiis 8 months ago

Yes, but you have to make it public in the end of the challenge.

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Angelo 8 months ago

you can have parts floating inside of other parts when 3d printing, thats one of the beauties of it!

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pedders 8 months ago

hello, in the requirements appears "A 3D Printing at Home Competition entry must be an .STL or .OBJ file and max. 4 images"... what happends if any of the other engineers upload a rendering and with your renderings, they are more than 4 images? have I to choose 4 and delete the others?

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Nathan Caswell 8 months ago

Can one entry contain more than one .stl file? For example, parts of an assembly?

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Marcuz 8 months ago

Pieter Hermans and Kaspar Kiis - I don't get something... an entry should be something entirely new thing or can it be existing thing but remodeled/redesigned for 3D printing?

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teigan 8 months ago

i noticed many ipod contest entries have found their way into this contest. is that allowed? because if so, then every entry from the previous contest would be eligible for this one.

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Kaspar Kiis 8 months ago

@Marcuz please re-phrase your question to make it more clear. @Teigan this is not a good practice to upload entries to both challenge, but not something we will pay attention to as long a they apply for the requirements.

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Marcuz 8 months ago

telgan - read rules, please... "2. To the best of your knowledge, it is not, and has not been in production or otherwise previously published or exhibited. "

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hamidsani 8 months ago

I was wondering if it's okay to design something that requires transparent material? Do you have such material available?

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Er 7 months ago

why can't seem to upload a private entry for the competition?

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Nathan Caswell 7 months ago

It seems that several entries that were uploaded in the past 24 hours are showing up on pages 6-7 of the entries instead of page 1.

I mention this because I don't want any entries to be overlooked due to a bug in the upload system.

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Musa Lorgat 7 months ago

does this competition end midnight tonight or the end of the 16th, and im having serious problems uploading stl files which is the main file needed for this event can you guys double check if its ok from your side cheers.

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Hevi 7 months ago

same here, maybe u should add some counting clock... I'm not sure when is the deadline :/

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Bamidele 7 months ago

When is the deadline Please?

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Ashish Kumar 7 months ago

I have tagged my modal Parthenon as 3dprintingevent but still it's not shown on the entries page.

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Bob Spikman 7 months ago

"ashish" they first check your file - so they probably did not do that yet. No worries, it will show up later.

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Ashish Kumar 7 months ago

Thanks Bob :)

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Er 7 months ago

I uploaded my entry about 5-6 hours before the end of the competition and i still can't see it. why is that?

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Ardo Rand 7 months ago

Same here, I uploaded my project before the end, but it's not in here.

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Kris 7 months ago

Same here, doesn't show ;)

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Gabe Blanchet 7 months ago

@ashish, @Er, @Ardo, @Kris - Please email me (gabe@grabcad.com) with the link to your project. I will make sure your submissions are included before the jury takes a look.

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Julius Siador 7 months ago

Hi Gabe, I place my project in private. I hope it is still qualified as I fully accept the rules/agreement for this contest.

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Ardo Rand 7 months ago

Thanks for Your efforts, Gabe ;)

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Simonr 7 months ago

Am I too late? It's past the deadline in the UK - but probably not in the US?

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Gabe Blanchet 7 months ago

All models submitted before the deadline should now be shown in the entries. Please email me (gabe@grabcad.com) if your submission is not in the entries.

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Gabe Blanchet 7 months ago

@Simonr - yes, the challenge is over

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Hevi 7 months ago

@Gabe - my entrie is "private" ( Data Guardian ) ...so I don't know for sure that it's in the challenge? :/ After challenge it will be switched to all other entries or it will stay as private?

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Kris 7 months ago

Hm still cannot see it. I did email it to you Gabe...

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Ibrahim Sanih Ahmed 7 months ago

ooh... its over. awesome. so... when does the results come in?

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Ardo Rand 7 months ago

My project is still not in the list. Gabe, can You help me on that?

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Romanych 7 months ago

I just load my project, but I can't see it in the list. Why? Thanks...

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teigan 7 months ago

my project is also still missing. already messaged Gabe days ago. would appreciate any assistance. thanks.

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Iain Shields 7 months ago

Well the event is today, how is going to win. I hope they announce the winners on their website because I can't attend the event.

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julienlamo 7 months ago

my project is missing too...

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Hevi 7 months ago

I don't even know that my entrie is on the list :/ ...is a private entrie so it's hard to obtain this... I see that GC.com has some issue about entries... so I don't know... I'm in or I'm not :(

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Sara Sigel 7 months ago

@Hevi I checked and your entry made it in with no problem. @Gabe is taking care of the other entries since we are experiencing technical problems. If your entry did not show up in the entries page but was submitted by the deadline - he made sure they got to the judges. Sorry the problems!

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Hevi 7 months ago

@Sara - thank you :)

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Matthias Biegerl 7 months ago

I think the event is over which project won?

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Iain Shields 7 months ago

Where / how can i find out if my entry won or not, please advise. thank you.

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Gijs Houdijk 7 months ago

The event was nice but I couldn't stay for the announcement of the winning design, hope the results will be posted soon on GrabCAD!

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Mateus Vinicius Tomasi 7 months ago

It's going to be a hard decision for the jurys to decide the better, there are a lot of great models worth the prize.

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WenHua Zhang 7 months ago

Hello there! I submitted my design and I tagged 3Dprint event, but I can not find my piece in the show case. :(

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WatchMeDesign 7 months ago

When can we expect results from this competition?

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Romano Gaspari 7 months ago

Also in this challenge there was needing pre selection during entries submitions... a lot of models are unprintable

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Hevi 7 months ago

So, what now? Who is "in", who is "out"? We would like to know what and when? :D

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Stephen Nyberg 7 months ago

It has only been a week and most challenges I have seen take a few to judge. They should not have given a date of when the winner would be announced if they were not going to follow through but I would give the judges a few more weeks.

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Kris 7 months ago

Who won?

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Matthias Biegerl 7 months ago

@Stephen Nyberg "Winners will be announced on October 23, 2012 during the 3D Printing Event 2012"

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Iain Shields 7 months ago

well it has been 24 hours what's the verdict. who won?

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Sara Sigel 7 months ago

Hi everyone. I apologize for the delay as the announcement of the winners was postponed. But we will be releasing them shortly. Thank you for being patient.

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Ardo Rand 7 months ago

Thanks, Gabe, for not keeping Your word as You said.
The Competition is finished, winners announced, but my project didn't compete, because somebody didn't do what he said:
Gabe: "Please email me (gabe@grabcad.com) with the link to your project. I will make sure your submissions are included before the jury takes a look."
________________

But most important:
Congrats to the winners, Your jobs are awesome!

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Iain Shields 7 months ago

CONGRATS TO ALL THE WINERS OF THE 3d PRINT EVENT.

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Romano Gaspari 7 months ago

congratulations to all winners but another time I have something to suggest to grabcad staff... Please give more details in the description before starting a new challenge because Someone follow them to thinking about models to submit. for ex: this competion was designed for a live event and setted to be a fast selection winner during the event. so I thought fast printing objects and above all something that can be used immediatly in the event to show how much it is usefull and well simple drawn. In this case, probably, I did wrong reading of the description or the models weren't printed during the event... the goal of the staff should be a non interpretable detailed description so as nobody can say "I did not uderstood". I hope to be helpfull to design better challange settings. thank you.

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Hevi 7 months ago

@Romano - u r right... for example I don't know why my entrie was wrong etc etc :/

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Romano Gaspari 7 months ago

@Hevi I believe your data guardian is too complex for this challenge... including elctronics and mechanism it become hard to be examined... this should be a fast selecion challenge... maybe :D

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Hevi 7 months ago

@Romano - u have right, but they should say that :/

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Romano Gaspari 7 months ago

it never is too late to improve site staff comunication. I had suggest grabcad team to make a pre-selection during the entire challenge long so as kick off models not accorded with rules and requirements at first view. I hope they'll change method soon

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Sara Sigel 6 months ago

@Hevi I believe we followed up on this via private message, but feel free to contact me with any other questions. I apologize for the confusion.

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