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DE Guest · July 1, 2018 · …the design, development and manufacturing of crash dummies for 65 years. An “elderly” crash-test dummy. Image courtesy of Humanetics. In the automotive sector alone, Humanetics serves 100% of the OEMs and Tier I safety suppliers worldwide with these anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs), as well as calibration equipment, crash…
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Pamela Waterman · March 1, 2006 · …attended the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Conference (first held in 1993) as it has moved from Detroit to Chicago to Cincinnati and back, visited countless vendors and service bureaus, earned SME’s Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing (RP&M) Professional Certificate, and benefited from the goldmine…
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Pamela Waterman · August 1, 2011 · …transform the world of manufacturing.When a part’s end-use requirements call for metal, many factors determine the best material and process. High strength, excellent thermal conductivity, machinability/weldability, corrosion resistance and the ability to create extremely smooth surfaces may all be on the list. Beyond that, design complexity, a need…
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Kenneth Wong · October 10, 2017 · …on weight, function, and manufacturing criteria,” according to the company’s briefing document distributed to the press.The tool is based on TOSCA, a product originally developed by FE-Design. In 2013, Dassault Systemes acquired FE-Design, bringing TOSCA into its SIMULIA portfolio. The optimization functions are included with SolidWorks Simulation Professional…
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Kenneth Wong · October 3, 2019 · …making, the difference between additive manufacturing (AM) and die casting, and more. To register, go to /virtual/ (EDITOR'S NOTE: The inaugural CAASE19 virtual conference was held on Oct. 8. If you missed the live event, the keynote and individual conference sessions are still available on-demand via our registration…
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Beth Stackpole · January 1, 2019 · …Steve Pilz, director of additive manufacturing engineering at ANSYS. “Engineers can save time on iteration by using nature as the starting point.” The Cuttlefish Project Using nature as a foundation was the idea behind a research effort conducted by a mechanical and materials engineering team at South Dakota…
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DE Guest · August 6, 2018 · By Nicholas Dewhurst Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies have launched us into a new universe of innovation. This is as consequential a time as any in modern manufacturing. And for engineers and industries that embrace product simplification and part consolidation strategies, AM is a dream process—a breakthrough in the…
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DE Editors · December 5, 2017 · …Systems’ 3D Sprint is an additive manufacturing software that prepares and optimizes CAD data and manages the SLS print process. The software includes tools for high-performance, high-density 3D nesting, quality checks for pre-build verification and a sinter cage structure generator, bringing performance and productivity to the ProX SLS…
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Beth Stackpole · July 21, 2021 · …to be produced with additive manufacturing technologies. Given the extent of the modeling exercise, the partners leveraged Ansys Material Designer, which allowed the team to drastically reduce the complexity of the original model without losing too much information. “The system was very specific since it was made of…
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Jim Romeo · November 1, 2020 · …Turbines, for one, uses additive manufacturing technology from VELO3D to design and fabricate components that fulfill multiple functions. This leads to a reduced overall part count while eliminating interfaces between traditionally separate parts. “All internal lubrication and fuel circuits are integrated into our unique single-piece core engine,” explains…
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Beth Stackpole · April 19, 2022 · …adoption of design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) principles. Automotive manufacturers and their supplier networks are accelerating the transition to a new generation of lighter weight and battery-powered vehicles to meet increasing consumer demand and in support of more stringent climate policies. A report by research firm BloombergNEF, projects…
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Kenneth Wong · April 1, 2013 · …increases the socket’s comfort. Additive manufacturing (AM) technology has branched out of its engineering and manufacturing origins into the biomedical field. Today, 3D printers are printing out surgical instruments and prosthetics; in the future, if technological and regulatory hurdles can be overcome, they could even be churning out…
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Anthony J. Lockwood · August 20, 2014 · …(computational fluid dynamics) analyses, additive and rapid manufacturing and CAM (computer-aided manufacturing). 3-maticSTL also allows users to create scale models, wind tunnel models, concept models and similar models by making adjustments directly on a mesh. The 2D UV feature in 3-maticSTL 9.0 provides controls for positioning and rescaling…
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Kenneth Wong · January 31, 2025 · Until now, additive manufacturing (AM) workflows have relied heavily on intermediary file formats to print CAD files. The two widely used formats are STL and 3MF. Both are triangulated or mesh formats, compromising the accuracy and geometric integrity of the original CAD designs. (For more, read “Bridging CAD…
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Anthony J. Lockwood · April 29, 2014 · …newly acquired FineLine Prototyping additive manufacturing service, this 10-page PDF could have been titled “Material Selection Matters.” See, it covers the A-to-Z of the material selection process beginning with the elephant in the room: The process is often an educated guessing game. And why shouldn’t it be? Your…
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Pamela Waterman · July 16, 2009 · …at the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ Rapid 2009 event to just-announced business efforts, you’ll see from this overview that collaborating industries are again making progress on a number of fronts.DE identified seven trends of intriguing RT that warrant close scrutiny: less-expensive systems, high-performance parts manufacturing, new material options,…
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Kenneth Wong · March 9, 2020 · …Autodesk’s generative design and additive manufacturing (AM) to reshape a typical seat bracket for securing the seatbelt. “While the typical seat bracket is a boxy part consisting of eight pieces welded together, the software came up with more than 150 alternative designs that look more like a metallic…
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Kenneth Wong · February 17, 2022 · …strategy manager, design and manufacturing, Autodesk. For Hooper and Bezpalko, CAD-integrated carbon counters and recyclability indicators are good R&D considerations. Bezpalko thinks education also has an important role to play in cultivating a new generation of sustainability-conscious product designers. “It’s not just about building the right tools. It…
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Anthony J. Lockwood · April 9, 2013 · Dear Desktop Engineering Reader:Additive manufacturing is de rigueur these days. But it’s not the only game in town. Milling, aka SRP (subtractive rapid prototyping), can do a lot of things that you simply cannot do or do as well with 3D printing. Today’s Check It Out explains how,…
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DE Editors · December 4, 2018 · …replace parts of traditional manufacturing processes such as injection molding for small series, as well as enabling the production of large components. The objective of the cooperation with Xunshi Technology, a Chinese printer manufacturer headquartered in Shaoxing, and operates in USA under the name Sprintray, will be opening…
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