Happy Holidays
We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy, safe and prosperous holiday season. We will be closed tomorrow to celebrate Christmas, but we will be back to business on Wednesday, Dec 26th.
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We Are Here For You
The holidays are approaching and we realize that many people and businesses take extended time off to celebrate. But we also realize that many other companies are very busy with work and don’t have that luxury. Cimquest strives to be there when you need us and therefore we will be staffed for those last minute urgent customer service calls that can occur right thru to the end of the year. We will be here for [...]
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12, 2018
Cimquest Receives New HP 580 Series 3D Printer
We are excited to be one of the first five companies in the US to receive our new HP 580 Series 3D Printer! The machine is fully installed, and we have started to build parts. Tailored for small/medium-sized development teams, design firms, and universities, HP’s new printer is a compact solution for producing injection mold quality parts. This automated system integrates material mixing and loading, printing, and reclaiming material in one machine. Teams can accelerate their [...]
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12, 2018
Solidworks Slicing Tool
This post will explain the new functionality in SolidWorks 2019 called Slicing. Scanning is becoming more and more prevalent in the engineering world. Whether you want to scan geometry just to back up your design or scan to recreate and make modifications, it's becoming more and more easy to start from a scan. Once done, you export the scan as an STL. The challenge comes when trying to utilize an STL file as graphics bodies in [...]
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12, 2018
Formlabs Education Workshop
https://cimquesttv.wistia.com/medias/iytvwya3yo?embedType=iframe&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 In this episode, we partner with ARDEC STEM Outreach to provide 3D printing training to teachers from schools throughout New Jersey. From the Formlabs Education Workshop we were able to donate nine Form 2 systems to the schools in attendance.
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The Process of Importing Organic Shapes
In this article, we go into more details about the process of importing organic shapes into CAD. We will explain how we created a custom coffee pod holder by scanning a human hand and including it in the CAD design. The first step involved capturing the geometry. There are many different 3D scanners out, all of which vary in accuracy, resolution, and light technologies. In order to facilitate the scanning of the hand, we used [...]
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Autodesk Netfabb Lattice Assistant and Lattice Commander
Today we are going to cover how to use Autodesk Netfabb to create lattices with two of Netfabb’s internal tools, Lattice Assistant and Lattice Commander. Autodesk Netfabb is Additive Manufacturing software that allows you to repair, prepare and build your parts. Lattice Assistant and Lattice Commander are currently available as tech previews, and included in Netfabb Premium and Ultimate. The first tool we will discuss is Lattice Assistant, which combines hollowing, lattice generation and merging [...]
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Formnext Recap
Cimquest recently visited the FormNext 2018 trade show in Frankfurt, Germany. FormNext is the leading 3D printing global exhibition and conference with over 26,000 visitors and 632 exhibitors. It was held in Hall 3 with a floor space of 36,000-square-meter and will be expanding to 58,000 square meters next year due to the increasing demand. Six of our 3D Printing partners were exhibiting this year and we had a chance to check out their showcases. The first [...]