June 16th, 2010
After ten month intensive development, Anarkik3D proudly release the Cloud9 Version 2. The new features include:
New well designed Interface
reported bugs and crashes fixed so new version is more stable
Mirror objects
Shortcut keys for quicker operations, such as move/rotate object
Support for OBJ file format( with texture mapping import capability)
Export part of the model (export selected objects only)
Configurable AUTOSAVE function
Unit setting (mm, cm and meter)
Boolean (union, subtract and intersect two objects): this is at pre-alpha stage and included as it is usable in part, a useful tool and fun!
Plus more features that have been added or enhanced in this new version of Cloud9
Here is a comment and testimony from one of the artists invited to test version 2:
“This is comparative, as I’ve used this before, not very successfully!
This time it was easier to control, I was less reactive and more proactive;
not sure why. Working in 3D space, for me, is almost impossible,
I can’t visualize in 3D but have to try it to do it.
Today I enjoyed swimming in space, making planes slide through spheres,
putting balls onto the ends of lines. I was in control; up to a point.
It’s comfortable to use the tool this time too. All in all, a more productive experience.
I would now like to create something and print it out in 3D. Thank you!”
(Alison F. Bell, 28th May 2010)
Screen capture of lines and forms ‘swimming’ and intersecting in 3D space created by Alison Bell.
For the details of the Cloud 9 Version 2 and to download it, please visit Cloud 9 Version 2 Product Page.
June 11th, 2010
Anarkik 3D now announce the launch of AnarkikAngels WebForum
The webforum is aimed to provide a platform that allow all users/stakholders to share their wonderful desgins using cloud9,
submit ideas/advices of feature/function improvements, and ask any problem related to using Cloud9 product.
The link of the webforum is:
www.anarkikangels.co.uk/forums/default.aspx
May 31th, 2010
Farah Bandookwala has completed her Masters of Fine Arts Degree (Jewellery) at Edinburgh College of Art and her work can be seen from the 12th to the 20th of June at the Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show and also at New Designers 2010 in London from the 1 to the 4 of July.
Farah uses Anarkik3D’s haptic Cloud9 software, with RHINO, to create “jewellery ... made up of a series of unique units that fit together in different ways, allowing the wearer to create a constantly evolving piece of jewellery to express their changing sense of self over time. Using haptics has allowed me to create forms that are organic, unpredictable and unique.”
Farah Bandookwala's work in AnarkikAngels Gallery
Farahs blog
Shapeways blog on Farah’s work
Annmarieshillito's blog on Farah’s work
ECA Degree Shows for Art & Design and Architecture & Landscape Architecture:
Saturday 12 June - Sunday 20 June, Monday to Thursday 10am - 8pm; Friday to Sunday 10am - 5pm. Free admission
Sept 4th, 2009
Tech Media Invest Top 100
In association with The Guardian and sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Kemp Little,
the list was revealed in the Paper on 7th September 2009 by Europe-Unlimited,
Europe’s leading event organisers for investors and technology companies.
The List aims to showcase young entrepreneurial companies that are developing innovative new ways
to serve business and consumers, and have the potential to radically change the shape of the technology and media industry
Vicky Frost, one of The Guardian’s Commissioning Editors, says that here ‘we celebrate their
achievements and showcase the UK’s most exciting emerging companies’.
Anarkik3d will be attending the Tech Media Invest Event 2009 being held in London on October
1st where we have the chance to showcase our business before potential investors and corporate partners.
July 8th, 2009
Farah Bandookwala will be working with Anarkik3D over the summer and her blog with pics of her work in progress can be seen here
She has opted for a Placement with us as part of her course as an MA Student studying at Edinburgh College of Art.
Through a combination of process including rapid prototyping, she is creating jewellery made up of modular units that
allow the wearer to manipulate and transform the adornment as their sense of self changes.
She will explore the use of our haptic application, Cloud9, as a tool,
on its own and to make CAD models more dynamic and organic, towards creating forms for rapid manufacture.
By having the means to work more intuitively at this concept generation stage she can experiment more deeply and widely with complexity of form, and function to produce 3D prototypes, both digital and tangible to explore and test her premise - the possibility that identity is a fluid entity,
and her aim to allow the wearer to convey this changing sense of self over time..
"Through my work I argue the need for contemporary jewellery to develop and form a new, perhaps much more complex,
flexible way of expressing changeable notions of self. Rather than dictating meaning through form or composition,
I would like the work to be open to the wearers' own expression of self over time."
March 17, 2009
The main use of STL is for 3D printing objects and this feature has now been tested: the
first Cloud9 created object has been successfully 3D printed by 2 different companies.
These 2 illustrations show the main test piece that was the first model created on our
Cloud9 haptic application to be 3D printed. It is designed to test primitives and extrusions
for non-manifold areas in the mesh. It is also being used to test colour 3D printing to make
sure we get everything right on our side.
Next feature: importing STL and 3ds. 3ds now just needs to be tested thoroughly for you.