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• • • • Materialise, a great, cutting-edge company behind many forward thinking apps of 3D printing tech, has announced its new Magics 18 software. Jargon fascinates me. Cults use it to create a linguistic differentiation between the milieu of their culture and those of general society. Marketing could be performing a similar role: drawing the user deeper into a unique culture of terms to induce feelings of specialism, professionalism and knowledge. My jargon-busting cap is firmly on for newcomers and potential buyers. For industry insiders and specialists, you may wish to skip to the first paragraph past the image of a swiss army knife to get to the juice For everyone else I’m going to start with a direct quote, to see if you empathise with my angle on Jargon: ‘With Magics18, our modules have also undergone some changes, resulting in expanded usability.

In our SinterModule, you can now view build heights and easily distribute your parts over these heights. As well, our SinterModule now also offers an automatic Subnester functionality for its Sinterboxes. In our SG and SG+ modules, we are offering some great support improvements. And many of our Importmodules have also been upgraded, (including CATIA V5, NX (Unigraphics) Parasolid, and SketchUp).’ Materialise knows its market, its audience and knows them well. That market will be quite happy with this kind of statement. Here at 3DPI we cater for a far broader audience than those already indoctrinated into the specific specialist terms that industry insiders and providers to industry employ. So, like the swiss utility knife image that Materialise has used to illustrate its point, let’s take a dissecting blade to that which will be to most people gobbledegook, and discover what is going on here.

Is Materialise’s.stl editing suite. An.stl is the most commonly used file type for 3D files. It stands for stereolithography, a type of 3D printing that has been with us since the 1980’s, but that’s not too important What is important is that it simply means it’s like what a.jpeg is to 2D visual files, or indeed.png or.psd, this last one is a photoshop file. Photoshop is known by most of the world’s serious amateur computer users now, as well as pro’s who used to have sole possession of the (expansive but expensive) program. Magics is kind of to 3D what Photoshop is to 2D. Photoshop has spawned many open source equivalents, Paint.net is a free alternative, stable, useful but only a fragment of the functionality that Photoshop offers, GIMP is a neat GNU license alternative.