2BOT physical Modeling Technologies was recently included in an article in the Seattle Times related to 3D model making.  Please check it out here:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2017076177_3dprinting27.html

June 2011 --- 2BOT physical Modeling Technologies would like to announce the purchase of our classroom ModelMaker by three prestigious educational institutions: Rochester STEM High School, Florida State University, and Bishop Blanchet High School.

First, Rochester New York’s STEM High School will be using classroom ModelMaker for a broad range of purposes. Opened in 2010, Rochester STEM High School gives students an opportunity to focus in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, while still in high school.

Secondly, Florida State University will be using our ­­­­classroom ModelMaker. FSU students will have the chance to design and print their own models for the University’s wide range of programs.

Last but not least, students at Bishop Blanchet High School will now have the chance to design and create their own 3D models using classroom ModelMaker. Located in Seattle, Bishop Blanchet is a Catholic, college preparatory high school, known for their excellent academics.

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For more information about each school, visit their websites:

Rochester STEM HS - http://secondary.rcsdk12.org/rstemhs/site/default.asp

FSU - http://fsu.edu/

Bishop Blanchet HS - http://www.bishopblanchet.org/page.php?id=135

June 2011 --- 2BOT physical Modeling Technologies is pleased to announce the addition of Cansel, out of Canada, as a new dealer. Cansel will be serving Canada with locations in every province.

Cansel offers software, hardware, and services to professionals in a broad number of fields, including: architecture, surveying, construction, government, and engineering. In addition to providing software products like AutoCAD and hardware used in the field, Cansel offers training courses in a variety of subjects.

We look forward to working with Cansel in the future, and expanding into Canada.

http://www.cansel.ca/

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March, 2011

At this years’ CUE Conference in Palm Springs, 2BOT’s VP of Sales and Marketing, Darren Coil, had the opportunity to demonstrate the educational applications of 2BOT’s classroom ModelMaker™. Working with Bob Barboza, the founder of Super School University, Darren was able to create a 3D model of the island of Santa Luzia for the schools’ Tenth Island Project. In this project, students are tasked with redesigning the island of Santa Luzia, Cape Verde to demonstrate applications of science, technology, and engineering. In less than two hours, the original Google Earth image of the island was made into a virtual 3D model using Google Sketch-Up, and cut into a detailed, physical 3D model 2BOT Studio and classroom ModelMaker™. The completed model was used in Bob Barboza’s presentation to the Conference.

Bob Barboza’s interview of Darren Coil, which includes further information about Super School University, the Tenth Island Project, and 2BOT’s contributions can be heard online at Kid’s Talk Radio, following the link below:

http://www.kidstalkradiousa.com/Kids_Talk_Radio/Kids_Talk_Radio_Podcasts/Entries/2011/3/20_Science__The_Tenth_Island_Project_with_2BOT’s_Darren_Coil.html

Tenth Island Project:

http://www.kidstalkradiousa.com/Tenth_Island_Project/Welcome.html

CUE Conference:

http://www.cue.org/conference/

March, 2011

2BOT physical Modeling Technologies is pleased to announce 3 new dealers. We are equally excited to be working with all 3 companies:

Located in Honolulu, It’s All About Kids serves Hawaii. It’s All About Kids are committed to promoting success of K-12 students by offering the highest level of educational programs to students of over 100 schools in Hawaii. In addition to supplying classrooms with educational tools such as Promethean ActivBoard, It’s All About Kids offers tutoring programs to students.

http://www.iaak.net/

From New Jersey, New Age Learning serves the New Jersey and New York regions. New Age Learning provides classrooms with top of the line technology and tools with the goal of increasing students’ success in the academic world.

http://www.newagelearning.com/

Serving Mexico is Torre Tres Distribution. Torre Tres utilizes an affiliate-based approach to provide customers with the products that are the most useful. Torre Tres specializes in importing US-manufactured goods in South and Latin Americas. We will be working with Marin Coronado and Emily Olanoff who specialize in Latin American distribution.

http://torretresdist.com/

December, 2010

2BOT was the buzz of this years’ ACTE Annual Convention and Career Tech Expo in Las Vegas, with the successful showing of its new and innovative 3D model-making technology. Over the two days of the convention, there was a constant flow of people to the Advanced Classroom Technologies (ACT) booth, where 2BOT’s classroom ModelMaker™ was displayed and demoed. Interested teachers and school administrators saw how the easy-to-use classroom ModelMaker creates detailed 3D models, and opens the door to new opportunities for education in the classroom.

Educators can import almost any new or pre-existing 3D model on 2BOT’s easy-to-use software, 2BOT studio. 2BOT’s technology offers fast model creation while keeping the cost of materials affordable for schools. For example, the typical model cost around $1 to produce.

Located in Redmond, Washington, 2BOT physical Modeling Technologies has invented new, proprietary, patent-pending technology for turning virtual ideas into physical objects. Innovative hardware-software content enable entirely new ways of working in the world of physical model making, while eliminating the time and size constraints of the past. 2BOT hopes to bring physical modeling to the mass commercial markets for the first time.

ACTE Website

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Redmond, WA  (June 10, 2010)  -  The 2BOT Physical Modeling Technologies is launching a brand new tabletop model-making machine, the Geo ModelMaker, at the 2010 American Institute for Architects convention in Miami FL this week.

The focus of this year’s convention is on Design in Architecture and the new ModelMaker promises to change the way that Architects and GIS Professionals think about the very use and production of Physical Models in the design process.   Instead of the traditional method of  hand scaling, cutting  and piecing models together from the ground up, the 2Bot actually carves models from rigid blocks of foam, much like a sculptor chisels a form out of a block of marble. This novel approach to model-making typically takes a mere one tenth of the time and cost of any other traditional model-making method.

The ModelMaker is not only fast and inexpensive, it’s also extremely user friendly. Connecting to a PC just like a printer, it comes with an intuitive software program (2BOT Studio™ ) that converts virtually every CAD and GIS design format (including DWG, STL, and Google SketchUp) directly into physical, or “hard” models. This process requires no reformatting of existing 3D model files by the user, making the production of physical models as easy as the click of a button.

In the past, the production of physical models has been viewed as a time consuming and expensive necessity of doing business and in the current economic climate making a physical model has almost come to be seen as a luxury item.  2BOT’s CEO Paul H. Nye says that the ModelMaker will change the way architects use models in the future.

“Architects know that clients love physical models, but the old ways of making them are prohibitively costly and time-consuming. Many have hoped that digital models expressed in printed form or even animations might fill the gap, but in the end, a physical model is immensely more efficient at communicating design intent and challenges. With a ModelMaker, it’s so easy and quick to make a model that you can show a design in the morning, discuss changes over lunch, and come back with a revised model that afternoon. With their cost reduced to literally a few dollars, models can become everyday tools to win more business, explore more creative ideas, and improve communications with clients and co-workers.”

The ModelMaker works with a variety of inexpensive, rigid foams and unlike other machines it does not require costly proprietary materials. It makes models up to 12” x 12” x 2”, and the software automatically segments larger models into tiles allowing the easy assembly of virtually any size model.  Nye says that new users typically learn the basics of operating the machine and software in about15 minutes.

The ModelMaker sells for a price that Nye notes is considerably less (adjusted for inflation) than the first office laser printers. “The laser printer revolutionized the production of 2D documents; the Geo ModelMaker can do the same thing for 3D objects,” he says.

In a world of shrinking budgets and growing expectations the Geo ModelMaker is the answer to both.

2BOT physical Modeling Technologies is based in Redmond, WA and is privately held.

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Redmond, WA—Billed as making physical “models too cheap to meter™,” a new tabletop machine from 2BOT physical Modeling Technologies carves architectural and other models from rigid foam blocks, typically in 1/10 the time, for 1/10 the cost, of other model-making approaches.

The classroom ModelMaker™ and Geo ModelMaker™ connects to a PC like a printer, and includes the company’s 2BOT Studio™ Virtual Reality software for converting CAD designs in all popular formats into physical models. It makes models up to 12” x 12” x 2”, and the software automatically segments larger models into tiles.

2BOT CEO Paul H. Nye says that his machine can revolutionize the way architects use models. “Architects know that clients love physical models, but the old ways of making them are prohibitively costly and time-consuming. With a ModelMaker, it’s so easy and quick to make a model that you can show a design in the morning, discuss changes over lunch, and come back with a revised model that afternoon. With their cost reduced to literally a few dollars, models can become everyday tools to win more business, explore more creative ideas, and improve communications with clients and co-workers.”

The ModelMaker sells for price that Nye notes is considerably less (adjusted for inflation) than the first office laser printers. “The laser printer revolutionized the production of 2D documents; our ModelMaker can do the same thing for 3D objects,” he says.

The machine is available now in limited quantities, and is covered by the company’s comprehensive six-month “hot swap” replacement program.

2BOT physical Modeling Technologies is based in Redmond, WA and is privately held.

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Groundbreaking CNC device released for sale

Redmond, Washington 1 February 2010 – 2BOT physical Modeling Technologies, the inventor of the affordable modelmaking systems, announced the launch of its classroom ModelMaker™ and Geo ModelMaker™ which can carve a physical scale topographical model in its entirety in less than an hour and rapidly creates the pieces for education, architectural and engineering models in minutes.

The ModelMaker automates the tedious creation of scale models and parts, a task that has traditionally been performed manually at great expenditures of time and cost.  Attempts in recent years to equip model shops with CNC or Rapid Prototyping machines only assisted with the production of small 3D components, which still required a lot more manual labor or lengthy CNC programming times that required expertise and skill. However, the ModelMaker delivers a complete solution including very easy-to-use software that can result in anyone in an office being able to create topological models within an hour of using the system.

The ModelMaker makes the task of model creation vastly easier for professional firms.  Accurate scale models of proposed developments are produced through a very simple software interface and CNC technology that requires no experience to use effectively,” says 2BOT CEO Paul Nye.

ModelMaker delivers these advanced CNC capabilities in a very small package.  The desktop-sized machine sits on a 25" x 25" footprint and weighs only 48 pounds. Despite its compact size, ModelMaker can produce scale models of limitless area.  The system automatically segments larger-area models into easily panelized sections.

ModelMaker is the first CNC device especially designed for the office environment.   It runs from a standard electrical outlet and features many user-accessible parts, which are protected by 2BOT’s one-year replacement warranty.

In contrast to 3D printers, which build 3D forms through an additive process of plastic resins sold by the manufacturer at exorbitant prices, the method is subtractive.  The device carves 3D shapes out of blocks of common modeling media such as wood or foam, giving designers a wide palette of affordable design materials.

“When considering the money invested in staff hours to produce a complex model and the capital costs of power tools in a model shop, the ModelMaker is a very smart investment for even small design firms,’ says Nye.  “Just the convenience alone is a value. Model-making with 2BOT technology is on average ten times faster than any of the alternatives.  Our site testing has shown that an average firm can recoup its investment in the system after just two to five dozen hours of use.” (2BOT Studio™ will also run in several Windows configurations on Intel Macintosh computers.)

The ModelMaker currently supports AutoCAD DWG and DXF data, and SketchUp KMZ files. It will also currently accepts STL format files from just about any major CAD product. More file format support is planned in the near future.

Nye expects the device will soon be distributed through CAD, AEC and 3D design software resellers.  Product specifications and purchase information can be found at the official web site at www.2BOT.com.

This debut product is only one application out of many for 2BOT’s user-affable CNC technology, according to Nye.  “We definitely envision that ModelMaker devices will become the preferred fabrication tool in the design world,” he says. “With a technology that has become so compact, easy, and practical, other businesses, even households, will eventually become small centers of manufacturing.”

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