Tuccamirgan's Pipe of Peace: Scanned and 3D Printed In this week’s 2 Minute Tuesday, we will take a look at how 3D Scanning, Scan Processing, and 3D Printing technology can be used to intricately recreate important artifacts. In this case, we were granted the privilege of recreating Chief Tuccamirgan of the Wickcheoche tribe’s peace pipe that was provided by the Hunterdon County Historical Society.
There is a new feature in the Mastercam 2023 Multiaxis Deburr toolpath that allows you to more easily program your models. Typically, when using the deburr toolpath, you would need to modify your models to remove the modeled chamfers in order to program to a sharp corner. Now, with the latest Mastercam release, there is a new option available when using automatic edge detection called Include Unsharp Edges. Here’s how to use it. In the [...]
3D Printed Prosthetics To Save A Bird’s Life While caretakers at ZooTampa were performing a routine check-up on a 25-year-old great hornbill, they found a lesion at the base of the bird’s casque, the yellow helmet-like growth on top of the head. Further examination determined that the bird, named Crescent, was suffering from life-threatening cancer. The great hornbill is one of the most endangered bird species on the planet, driven out of its habitat by [...]
Outsourcing vs. In-House: When Does it Make Sense to Bring SLS 3D Printing In-House? Do you ever wonder about the value proposition of bringing selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printers in-house and how it compares with outsourcing SLS parts from a service bureau? Or have you ever wondered about what it would be like to post-process these parts? In "Outsourcing vs. In-House: When Does it Make Sense to Bring SLS 3D Printing In-House?" a white [...]
Color Mapping in Verify - Mastercam 2023 In this week’s 2 Minute Tuesday, we will examine how Mastercam gives you choices for mapping colors identically or independently in the main interface and the Mastercam Simulator, also known as Verify.
This blog post will cover a new Mastercam 2023 Tool Axis Control strategy for the multiaxis toolpaths called Tilt Relative to Reference Surface. In previous versions of Mastercam, you needed to utilize the Clean Core machining method to achieve this style of tool axis control. This meant creating a simplified surface under the part to drive the tool axis control and then offsetting the toolpath using a collision control strategy. This added a substantial amount [...]
A reprint from Hunterdon Historical Record, by Russ Lockwood Tuccamirgan's peace pipe and its two 3D replicas made with a 3D printer. On October 19, 1925, the Case family donated a Native-American pipe made of soapstone to the Hunterdon County Historical Society (HCHS). Indeed, members of the Wickcheoche Tribe and Wickcheoche Council attended the donation ceremony at the Lenape Chief Tuccamirgan's grave in the Case family cemetery on Bonnell Street in Flemington. The [...]
The First Environmental Evaluation of 3D-Printed Footwear A team of graduate students at Yale’s Center for Business and the Environment worked with HILOS and with data provided by their supply chain partners - BASF Forward AM and AMT - to examine each piece of their environmental impact. They then benchmarked the results against traditional footwear supply chain emissions to answer the following questions: How does 3D-printed footwear compare to legacy shoemaking? Where does the technology [...]
