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9 11, 2020

Nexa3D Announces Two New 3D Printing Materials

By |2020-11-09T08:18:22-05:00November 9th, 2020|Categories: 3D Printing / Additive Mfg, Nexa3D|0 Comments

Nexa3D recently added xCast and xPRO410 to their 3D printing materials lineup. xCast, a new material tailored specifically for the production of precision investment casting patterns on the NXE400 3D printer. xCast is ideal for foundry series production of small, large and complex metal parts for a variety of aerospace, defense, automotive, oil and gas and heavy industry applications, offering a toolless, faster, and more accurate alternative to traditional pattern production. Watch the video below [...]

6 11, 2020

Upcoming Live Free Webinar from Formlabs

By |2020-11-06T08:11:14-05:00November 6th, 2020|Categories: 3D Printing / Additive Mfg, Events, FormLabs|0 Comments

From Quick Designs to High Performance Parts: Explore the New Formlabs Draft and Rigid 10K Resins Formlabs just reformulated their fastest 3D printing material, Draft Resin, to enable quick design iterations in-house. This is because in the product development cycle, time is of the essence. You can’t be waiting around for weeks to get parts delivered from outsourcing. As designs evolve and you’re prototyping for functionality, performance is key. Alongside Draft Resin, the Formlabs material [...]

4 11, 2020

Formnext Connect 2020 – the global AM community meets virtually

By |2020-11-04T09:33:44-05:00November 4th, 2020|Categories: Events|0 Comments

Formnext Connect – the virtual edition of the world’s leading AM exhibition – will once again set the tone for the industry with an outstanding lineup of content. It will also offer all its participants a great deal of value in the form of intelligent matchmaking and exhibitors’ presentations of their latest innovations. Like the exhibitions of years past, Formnext Connect will be largely driven by the content on offer. “We’ve had a great [...]

4 11, 2020

Metrology Minute – Interpreting 3D and 2D Color Maps

By |2020-11-04T08:13:58-05:00November 4th, 2020|Categories: 3D Scanning|0 Comments

Let’s take a look at how to interpret 3D and 2D color maps using inspection software. Non-contact inspection software that is designed to show color maps will align the scan of a manufactured part with a nominal CAD model and actual manufacturing tolerances are revealed in a clear, easy to interpret fashion. Some products can show a blended color map whereby a color (typically green) represents a nominal tolerance. For the connecting arm color map [...]

2 11, 2020

Mastercam Lathe Custom Thread Toolpath

By |2020-11-02T08:36:43-05:00November 2nd, 2020|Categories: Mastercam, Tech Tips|0 Comments

This blog post will take a look at a new Mastercam Lathe Custom Thread toolpath that was added in Mastercam 2021. This new Custom Thread toolpath allows simplified creation of previously hard-to-make thread profiles like the rope thread on our example part. After selecting Custom Thread from the lathe toolpath gallery, it launches in the new side panel window just like 3D custom tools. In this example, we selected a .156 button cutter from the [...]

30 10, 2020

Introducing the Solutionix C500 3D Scanner

By |2020-10-30T08:11:47-04:00October 30th, 2020|Categories: 3d Scanning & Reverse Engineering|0 Comments

The Solutionix C500 structured light 3D scanner sets the standard for excellence and ease of use. The novice user can be up and running in minutes with single-click calibration and intuitive software deploying an extremely simple scanning process, from loading of parts to scan processing and scan exporting for downstream applications. Starting at just $40,000 for a single lens set or $52,000 for all four lens sets, the C500 covers a wide range of part [...]

28 10, 2020

Formlabs Rigid 10K Resin: An Extreme Material for Extreme Applications

By |2020-10-28T08:47:26-04:00October 28th, 2020|Categories: 3D Printing / Additive Mfg, FormLabs|0 Comments

Rigid Resins: Strong, Stiff, Stable From prototype to production, Formlab's expanding library of materials supports you at every step of the journey. Their latest materials, Draft Resin and Rigid 10K Resin span the breadth of this portfolio and expand what is feasible with SLA materials. Rigid 10K Resin for Rigid, Strong, Industrial-Grade Prototypes Introducing Rigid 10K Resin, the stiffest material in the Formlabs engineering portfolio. With a stiffness simulating that of glass and fiber-filled thermoplastics, [...]

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