Hey Everyone,

It’s been a very exciting last few weeks at 3Diligent as design submissions for our 3D Printed Trophy Contest to honor the World Champion Kansas City Royals rolled in!  While we received a number of outstanding submissions, we felt two designs truly separated themselves from the rest.  So without further ado, we announce these 3Diligent Trophy Contest Finalists:

1. The team of Samuel Hrabko, Raghav Parikh, and Momin Tahirkheli
2. Vladimir Nikolic

Congratulations to our finalists!

In addition, we wanted to also offer special recognition to Bill Griffiths’ 3D Printing class at the Pembroke Hill School in Kansas City, Missouri.  Not only did their high school class generate one of the finalist trophies in the Hrabko-Parikh-Tahirkheli team, but also submitted two additional excellent trophies from Gregory Bortnick and Macauley Greif.  In honor of their contributions, we’re extending $250 in platform credit to Mr. Griffiths’ class for future class projects and $50 cash to each Gregory and Macauley.

So there we have it.  Who will prove to be the Royals and who will be the Mets in this World Series of Trophy Design?  We’ll look forward to gathering your input in deciding a champion between our two finalists in the coming weeks!

Best Regards,

Your Friends at 3Diligent

Your opportunity to craft the ultimate championship memento

At 3Diligent, a couple of our founders are Kansas City natives and big fans of the Royals.  Very big.  Like, “had to fly back for the championship parade” big.

So we were talking in the office the other day and decided that given our unique position at the crossroads of innovative design and the highest quality 3D Printing, we just had to host the…

KANSAS CITY ROYALS WORLD SERIES COMMEMORATIVE 3D PRINTED TROPHY COMPETITION!

The Details

When the submission window is open (starting Monday), submit a CAD design of anything that you think best commemorates the Royals championship.  Could be a trophy, memento, whatever you think best utilizes 3D Printing to mark this achievement.  We’ll narrow the submissions down to a set of semifinalists, and then let our Facebook followers vote on a champion.

3Diligent is a B2B 3D Printing platform, so we would like to see parts that take advantage of the heavy duty machines we offer on our platform, capable of better detail accuracy and more material options than personal 3D Printers.  So don’t be bashful about fine details in your design or the use of say, titanium, as your material preference!

Some of the material options available via the 3Diligent platform, including titanium, steel, thermoplastics, and resins

 Specifically, we will select semifinalists on three criteria:

• Uniquely 3D Printable – designs that take advantage of 3D Printing’s capabilities (e.g., high complexity, lattice structures, parts with subassemblies that that work as-printed, otherwise impossible parts)
• Viably 3D Printable – design files that don’t have errors, can be built without excessive support removal, and will fit inside a 10-inch cubed build tray
• Awesomeness – a design that is befitting of a world champion

Semifinalists will get $100 cash and $250 credit for use on future jobs on www.3Diligent.com.  The winner will get $500 cash and $1,000 in platform credit.  We’ll also be printing the trophy as a gift to the Royals, so if it’s awesome enough, it might find a place next to the circular one with the little flags on it!

We’ll post official rules here at news.3Diligent.com on Monday, November 16 and start accepting submissions then.  We’ll close submissions on Monday, November 23 at 9am Pacific, 11am Central time.  But consider this fair warning to start designing now!

So whether you’re a die hard Royals fan or just a talented designer, we can’t wait to see what you all come up with…

-Your Friends at 3Diligent