How To: Get 3D Prints Displayed at MatterHackers HQ

The 3D Printing and Maker Neighborhood is really a particular place to let creativity stream freely. Due to that, we need to provide the likelihood to show your inventive aspect at MatterHackers HQ!  

Impressed by neighborhood members like @3DMakerNoob and @dragonbaneOZ’s 3D printed murals, MatterHackers is creating our personal Hextile Wall, and we wish your very personal, personalized print to be a part of it! All you should do is create a hextile (particulars/standards under) and mail it to us! Then as soon as we obtain it, we’ll ship you a $5 low cost code as thanks for collaborating!

Hextile Design Standards

The precise design standards for these mosaic tiles are fairly easy; there are only a few key options wanted to be able to be displayed:

• Hexagonal base (to signify the MatterHackers brand). 
• No taller than 75mm (do not let your options protrude too far, in any other case we can’t have the ability to show it). 
• Options should keep inside the boundary of the hexagon base.
• The hexagon can be displayed from tip-to-tip (not the flat edge – please see pictures), so you should definitely have your designs oriented accurately. 
• Show of tiles is at our discretion
• Simply do not design something obscene – attempt to preserve it PG!
• If you happen to’re serious about utilizing a number of tiles to create one huge sample, be happy to!
  • Take into accout the spacing between tiles is 1/4″ (6.35mm)
  • If mounting them individually onto the wall shouldn’t be achievable along with your design, and as an alternative you want it mounted in a single piece, it’s possible you’ll create a backer board for it. So long as the 1/4″ spacing is built-in into the design and the outer fringe of the set would match in opposition to different Hextiles (Hextile, 1/4″ house on all sides, one other Hextile), you are golden.
• The best method to create a hextile is to make use of the Design App templates or Design Instruments in MatterControl, however you’re free to make use of no matter technique is at your disposal.
  • If you happen to’re serious about utilizing MatterControl to create your hextile, now we have one other article right here the place Alec goes over how he made one.

Apart from that, you have to be good to go! Print these in any shade, any materials, fundamental or detailed, painted, 3D carved, forged; no matter you possibly can consider. Any particular standards not talked about right here means it is totally as much as you how you can go about it. Plus, you possibly can ship in as many tiles as you need! 

How To Submit Your Hextile To Be Displayed At MatterHackers

Please fill out this way earlier than mailing your hextile to the tackle under. As quickly as we obtain your hextile we are going to e mail you a $5 low cost code to make use of on something within the MatterHackers on-line retailer! 

Remember to embrace your title and e mail tackle inside your hextile bundle to assist us get your well-deserved low cost code to you – your hextile could even be featured on all MatterHackers’ social media accounts!

Mail your hextile to: 

MatterHackers

c/o Advertising and marketing Division

20321 Valencia Circle

Lake Forest, CA 92630

We will not wait to see what you create – comfortable printing!