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The Santa Claus Machine
George Miller of Puzzle Palace and his “Santa Claus Machine” Win Dimension 3D Printing Group’s First MV3dP Contest
Competition celebrates 3D printing success stories; Summary and video of winning story at http://www.dimensionprinting.com/mv3dp/mv3dp_winner.htm
MINNEAPOLIS (September 18, 2007) — The Dimension 3D Printing Group, a business unit of Stratasys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSYS), announced today that George Miller, owner of Puzzle Palace in Sonoma, Calif. has won the first Dimension MV3dP Customer Awards contest. Miller’s prize for winning is a one-year supply of ABS material and a 32-inch flat screen television.
MV3dP is a write-in story competition designed to showcase and reward the customer narratives that best communicate the value conveyed by entrants’ Dimension 3D printers. Entries are scored in three categories: 1) the value and benefit the Dimension 3D printer has delivered 2) creativity and 3) the unique quality of the story.
Miller, a 3D puzzle modeler and designer, submitted a story that creatively detailed how he discovered 3D printing and how his Dimension 3D printer (or as he calls it – “The Santa Claus Machine”) has revolutionized the way he does business. Among other things, Miller cited the Dimension 3D printing system’s speed and ability to model complex designs as major advantages. A video based on the winning story is available at http://www.dimensionprinting.com/mv3dp/mv3dp_winner.htm
The contest was judged by a three-person panel of design trade magazine editors that included Joe Ogando of Design News (www.designnews.com), Tony Lockwood of Desktop Engineering (www.deskeng.com) and Jeff Reinke of Product Design and Development (www.pddnet.com).
“Congratulations to George Miller for submitting a first-rate winning story,” said Jon Cobb, vice-president and general manager of Dimension 3D Printing for Stratasys. “Over the years, we’ve heard customers worldwide singing the praises of their Dimension 3D printers. MV3dP is designed to encourage customers to tell more of these stories and our first contest did not disappoint. We had some wonderfully entertaining and interesting entries. Thanks to all who participated.”
About The Dimension 3D Printing Group
The Dimension 3D Printing Group is a business unit of Stratasys, Inc., based in Minneapolis, Minn. Dimension 3D printers – which include the Elite, the Dimension 1200 Series and Dimension 768 Series – are networked, desktop modeling systems that provide CAD (Computer-Aided-Design) users a fast, office-friendly, low-cost alternative for building functional 3D prints. Dimension 3D printers build accurate models layer by layer using durable ABS plastic, allowing users to not only evaluate design concepts, but test 3D prints for functionality, form and fit. As the first large format desktop 3D printer that sells for less than $30,000, Dimension incorporates many key features found in modeling systems that cost tens of thousands of dollars more.
