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John Newman · August 11, 2014 · Many city dwellers are still interested in nature, they just don’t necessarily want to be surrounded by it. A trip to the zoo or the nearest city park is often just enough nature to scratch the itch without driving beyond cell phone reception. A new project named Printednest…
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John Newman · August 7, 2014 · …company is expanding its additive manufacturing (AM) toolset, as well as increasing the number of service bureaus and AM manufacturers supported by the software. The update allows for multiple objects to be built on the same print bed. Courtesy of Adobe.The expanded options for 3D printers adds 5th…
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John Newman · August 5, 2014 · …be answered by most additive manufacturing (AM) systems relate to price, material options, and quality.If you’ve found one system capable of producing quality prints in the material of your choice, it’s more than likely you’ll be able to find two more with the same specs. At this point,…
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John Newman · August 5, 2014 · …market for a home additive manufacturing (AM) system, printing services are as near as the internet. Democratized manufacturing is becoming a reality.You can find plenty of different 3D model collections online, including some produced by the US government. A number of museums have begun offering digital libraries for…
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Jess Lulka · August 1, 2014 · …3D printing has changed manufacturing and receive free training. FISHER/UNITECH will present on ways additive manufacturing is being used in tooling and industrial automation, including injection molding and industrial automation. Guest speaker Michael Wegman from Stratasys talk on business strategy and advances in material science.“We are excited to…
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John Newman · August 1, 2014 · Anyone who has worked with a 3D printer for any length of time knows the frustration of a bad print. At best you’ve just wasted some time and materials, at worst the prototype you were hoping to show to a prospective client has been ruined.MIT students Claudio V.…
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Brian Albright · August 1, 2014 · …exploring the use of additive manufacturing (AM) in what they do. Fritz, 3M’s Manufacturing Technology Manager, said, “In our business, we focus on collision repair and car care. We provide our customers with total solutions for refinishing automotive bodies.” Fritz and his team have found that AM could…
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David Geer · August 1, 2014 · …A company that does manufacturing may need them at the beginning of a project, but not throughout. With an outside provider, a designer does not have to pay for a service when they don’t need it. Other advantages can include being faster, more efficient, and more cost-effective than…
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DE Editors · August 1, 2014 · …of its tools using additive manufacturing (AM) on Stratasys’ Fortus Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) machine. FDM technology is an AM process that builds plastic parts layer by layer, using data from CAD files. A typical FDM layup tool takes only about $400 and 24 hours to produce. The…
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John Newman · July 31, 2014 · It may be true that Americans are in love with the automobile, but the country has always had at least an infatuation with bicycling. It’s a rare day you don’t see someone pedaling along on a bike, and the infatuation doesn’t seem to be limited to a single…
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John Newman · July 30, 2014 · …grabbing the majority of additive manufacturing (AM) news for the near future, other, even more dramatic developments are taking place outside the consumer side of AM. And where it’s likely most of the doo-dads ordered from Amazon will be built from one kind of plastic or another, today’s…
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John Newman · July 30, 2014 · …happen to own an additive manufacturing (AM) system or not. Service bureaus exist in every major city, you can find 3D printers for well under $1,000, and, of course, you can barely surf the Internet without tripping over something related to AM.A number of companies have shown interest…
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Anthony J. Lockwood · July 28, 2014 · …as diverse as engineering, manufacturing, entertainment and education. And from that vision began Mcor Technologies and its paper-based 3D printing technology.Both monochrome and full-color 3D printers from Mcor leverage what is called SDL (selective deposition lamination) technology. SDL is an additive technology with a minor subtractive element. “How…
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John Newman · July 28, 2014 · …or sometimes even walks, additive manufacturing (AM) is probably involved (or will be). In the course of what seems like just a few years, AM has gone from a tool mainly used for rapid prototyping to a powerful, versatile force in manufacturing. Lockheed Martin is just one among…
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DE Editors · July 25, 2014 · …of ownership for industrial additive printing, with reduced machine, support and material costs.For its system, MatterFab has developed a U.S.-based powder bed fusion metal 3D printer. The platform to support its printers features data-driven CAD, custom materials, integrated quality assurance and scalable enterprise controls. Clients can also access…
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Brian Albright · July 25, 2014 · …million project to develop additive manufacturing processes for repairing aerospace parts.According to lead contractor Optomec, the “Re-Born in the USA” project will focus on additive manufacturing technology for repair of aerospace metal components for the U.S. Air Force. The team will use Optomec’s LENS 3D metal printing technology…
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Brian Albright · July 24, 2014 · The White House Maker Faire in June included a lot of innovative, 3D print-enabled designs. One of them was a set of more comfortable crutches designed by students at Georgia Tech University. Better Walk used 3D printing to speed their prototyping process. Image: Better WalkThe students launched their…
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John Newman · July 24, 2014 · …offered up to digital manufacturing is My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, which is currently broadcast in 170 countries around the globe. The first batch of print-on-demand My Little Pony models. Courtesy of Hasbro.“Hasbro has a rich portfolio of iconic brands and popular characters, and SuperFanArt is a…
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Jess Lulka · July 23, 2014 · …providing its clients with additive manufacturing services in-house at its North Carolina plant.According to a company press release, the company now offers fused deposition modeling with ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, direct metal laser sintering, selective laser sintering, stereolithography and PolyJet technologies.“We want our customers to really embrace additive…
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John Newman · July 23, 2014 · …for greater adoption of additive manufacturing (AM) is the amount of technical knowledge required to design viable 3D models. True, design programs have become easier to use in the last couple of years, but there’s still plenty of room for improvement. Even if you don’t believe in the…
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