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On Saturday 31st May we took part in our first pop-up store event. It was hosted by Kids Corner Berlin, a café and kids activity centre in Berlin’s Schöneberg. We packed up a display box with all sorts of 3D printed goodies that would interest Mum’s and Dad’s as well as their little ones, and […]

Today DimensionAlley proudly presents our file uploader – Beta version. It accepts .stl (our preferred file format to 3D print). Simply click on the menu item “Upload To Print” to get started. From this page you can upload the .stl file from your computer. The object is rendered as a 3D model so you can pan and […]

I think an optimal age to get into 3D design now must be around 10, though we have shown kids aged 5+ how to get started. As so many kids are well used to computers and have a lot of control of the mouse they very quickly pick-up the basics and get used to panning […]

Today we welcomed a jewellery designer, Naulilla, from Portugal to the Alley. After a few weeks of email correspondence we were glad to meet her and start 3D printing her creations. Naulila has her own jewellery design company  and we worked together to print out this beautiful bracelet as a test piece for starting her first […]

3D printing for schools in Berlin We love school visits. Today 12 members of Charles Dickens Primary school 2nd grade visited us for a class in how 3D printing works. We use fruit and cake to explain slicing an object into thin layers to print. Lego Duplo is used to demonstrate what happens when we […]

Today’s featured print was modelled in Solidworks as a puzzle elephant as a gift by one of our customers. DimensionAlley rushed to 3D print it in time for the celebrations today!

Catch up with all the news and events at DimensionAlley here in our blog. Doors opened on Dec 17th 2013. We are building a community around 3D printing in Berlin. It’s a copy shop, a place to learn about 3D printing, exhibit designs or start your own production line. We use 3D printing as much […]