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John Newman · February 15, 2012 · …of the promise of additive manufacturing (AM) is the ability to custom create parts for specific jobs. Granted, subtractive manufacturing has been at this for years, but the investment in time, money and specialized tools required to build a single part makes standard fabrication methods less than ideal…
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John Newman · February 14, 2012 · …the doors of its Manufacturing Demonstraton Facility to students interested in using additive manufacturing (AM) in creating their robots. ORNL offers ultrasonic consolidation (the Solidica Formation), electron beam melting (the Arcam A2) and direct metal deposition (the POM DMD 103D).We’re like the three legs of a stool. One,…
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Jamie Gooch · February 13, 2012 · …you wanted to use additive manufacturing (AM) to create a modern wheel. With Objet’s Connex family of 3D printers, you could use one material to build the rim and spokes, and another material to encase the rim in rubber — at the same time.“Our technology is based on…
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John Newman · February 10, 2012 · …on the state of additive manufacturing, I come across many interesting news items. I’ll gather them up once every few weeks and present them in a Rapid Ready Roundup (like this one).First up, Morris Technologies has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the U.S. government.…
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John Newman · February 9, 2012 · Even if you consider additive manufacturing (AM) an emerging technology (which it isn’t, really), advances are still being made in AM processes. Created by EOS, high temperature laser sintering (HTS) is a relatively new process of AM that is being put to use mainly in the aerospace and…
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John Newman · February 8, 2012 · While not quite on the level of The Six Million Dollar Man, this particular rebuilding of the human body is still pretty cool. Last June, doctors at Hasselt University’s Biomedical Research Institute in Belgium, along with assistance from their fellows the Netherlands, were able to successfully implant a…
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John Newman · February 7, 2012 · …considering the future of additive manufacturing are time and convenience.Even assuming a 3D printer suddenly appeared in every first-world household overnight, not much would change. Unless a serious breakthrough occurs, 3D printing takes time. Even small, simple objects require an hour or more to build. Further, most home…
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John Newman · February 3, 2012 · …prototypes, concept models and manufacturing tools. If the build requires an extra-smooth finish, Stratasys offers a no-touch Finishing Touch Smoothing Station that will quickly finish parts.Industry giants such as Anheuser-Busch have used parts created by the uPrint SE. When a part originally made from aluminum broke, Anheuser-Busch contacted…
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John Newman · February 2, 2012 · …those familiar with the additive manufacturing (AM) industry and newcomers alike, will want to see the latest developments firsthand and talk with AM experts. To fill that desire for knowledge, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has announced details for RAPID 2012, one of North America’s largest AM…
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John Newman · February 2, 2012 · …from any number of additive manufacturing services. Unlike other companies, Sculpteo doesn’t stop there, but instead offers a number of services for people who’ve never even heard of CAD.One of the possibilities is to create unique items based on templates provided by the company. While not quite as…
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John Newman · February 1, 2012 · At this point in its development, most people consider AM only to be suitable for small parts or prototypes. With a few notable exceptions (such as the Urbee), this tends to be true. However, South African manufacturer AeroSud is thinking big.With the aid of government investments, AeroSud has…
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John Newman · February 1, 2012 · Everyone loves bacon. The problem is that everyone loves bacon so much it tends to quickly run out. What if, instead of having to run to the store to buy more juicy meat strips, you could just print some out? Someday soon that dream may become reality. Bacon…
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John Newman · February 1, 2012 · While the technology of 3D printing is pretty exciting, most of the uses are fairly mundane. Generally, 3D printers are used when someone needs a prototype to show the boss. Slightly less often they are used to create simple objects like iPod cases or key rings. The sculpture…
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John Newman · February 1, 2012 · …quite hit the mass manufacturing stage.Filabot has been designed to fit on the desktop, with measurements of 24x2x12 in. You can’t feed whole plastic bottles into the current design, which requires the user to chop the plastic he means to recycle into around 4-in. pieces. These pieces are…
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John Newman · February 1, 2012 · For many years people expected the future of medical technology would probably have something to do with cloning. Growing new organs from cells harvested from the patient would make rejection unlikely, and whole stockpiles of human parts could be created to save lives. Now it seems more likely…
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John Newman · January 31, 2012 · Even after nearly two decades of development and use, 3D printing is still a relatively new technology. As is the case with most new technologies, the manner in which it is implemented is often based on what people expect from older technologies. Most 3D printers are used to…
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John Newman · January 31, 2012 · …a new one with additive manufacturing! That sounds like something that might have been featured in a 1950s era featurette, but researchers at Loughborough University (among others) are working on using AM on a large scale. Thus far, three different processes have been developed: contour crafting, D-Shape and…
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John Newman · January 31, 2012 · Personal additive manufacturing is still in its infancy, much like computers were before the PC revolution that brought the devices into nearly every home. Early PCs were bulky, expensive and usually didn’t come with a lot of bells and whistles. Early home 3D printing systems are pretty much…
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John Newman · January 31, 2012 · …sent to the FigurePrints manufacturing team. From there, the figurine is printed out in full color. Customers usually receive their finished product in about a month.It’s one way that 3D printing services are being brought to the masses. The number of WoW subscriptions was reported to be 11.4…
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John Newman · January 29, 2012 · Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing (and we’ll use both terms on the site), has grown considerably in the last two decades. While still used overwhelmingly to create quick prototypes, an estimated 20% of finished AM products are now just that: products. Industries and individuals are…
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