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Exploring a New World of 3D Printed Product Realism with Flexible Color Digital Materials

Reprinted from the Stratasys Blog: 9 Jun. 2014 by Galit Beck Today we’re excited to unveil Stratasys’ extended range of flexible and rigid material options for theObjet500 Connex3 Color Multi-material 3D Printer. With these new color palettes, Stratasys is continuing to expand your ability to improve the look, feel and functionality of your 3D printed parts. The new offerings comprise six flexible material palettes,  featuring  more than 200 vibrant color shades  in a wide range of Shore A values and opacities. There are also four new rigid gray and color palettes – three 45-color rigid gray palettes, each  combining rigid white (VeroWhite) and black (VeroBlack) with colors, and one 45-hue gray palette with varying levels of translucency. We caught up with Boaz Jacobi, Stratasys Product Marketing Manager, to help illuminate Stratasys’ wonderful world of color and multi-material opportunities. Stratasys Blog: What new possibilities does this extended range of material options bring to additive manufacturing?       Jacobi:  The Objet500 Connex3, already the most versatile 3D printer on the market, can now leverage over 1,000 color options and virtually unlimited combinations of flexible, rigid and translucent-to-opaque colors in a single print run. This provides true final product realism and versatility in end-to-end applications. Stratasys Blog: What are the [...]

By |June 11th, 2014|3D Printing / Additive Mfg, 3D Scanning, Stratasys|

How Stratasys Is Leading The Next Industrial Revolution

Reprinted from http://tcbmag.com/ Ask around about what’s happening with the increasingly talked-about technology called 3-D printing and you’ll hear a barrage of comments that sound like something Isaac Asimov would say: “Did you know you can print canoes?” “They’re printing cars!” “Did you hear about the human heart they made?” “There’s a printer making edible food.” They can sound straight out of sci-fi, but they’re often true. Three-dimensional printing has been around for more than 20 years, but recent advancements have made it easier than ever to use, as inventors look for ways to print more than just the highly durable plastic parts and trinkets in use today. In the near future, food, electrically conductive materials and composites stronger than steel will be able to be printed out in layers, allowing just about anyone anywhere to make a variety of products, ranging from hearing aids and electronic components to a beef tenderloin, medium-rare. A lot of this will be possible thanks to Stratasys, an Eden Prairie company with more than 1,800 employees, considered to be the market leader in 3-D printing. It was one of the first to develop the capacity to print objects back in 1992, to serve primarily industrial clients who required [...]

By |June 3rd, 2014|3D Printing / Additive Mfg, Stratasys, Technology|

Additive manufacturing drives production of race-ready parts.

Reprinted from the Stratasys Blog: By Allen Kreemer, Stratasys, Inc. Additive manufacturing (AM) has been crucial in the motor sports world for years. In the race for speed and performance, it has been a lynchpin for design and testing. Now, race teams are revealing that AM parts will go far beyond review and evaluation. They have found that AM is ready to hit the track and endure the rigors of high-speed racing. Motor sports are using AM for direct digital manufacturing (DDM) of production parts. In doing so, teams have demonstrated that additively manufactured parts have the quality and durability to meet the demands of racecars of all types. This trend has been developing for years, but until recently, teams have held DDM as a closely guarded secret that gives them a competitive edge.

By |May 29th, 2014|3D Printing / Additive Mfg, Stratasys|

From the Stratasys Blog – 3D Printing the Legendary Escher Lizard

The Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher continues to fascinate and inspire more than 40 years after his departure. Especially well known for his mathematical bent and two-dimensional renderings of “impossible” three-dimensional geometries, workarounds for Escher’s tricky angles and structures have found a home with 3D printing! Rachel McConnell, who explores art, engineering and design in her work, used an Objet500 Connex Multi-Material 3D Printer by Stratasys to create a physical “Escher Curl-up model.” The model was based on Escher’s 1951 print “Wentelteefje,” which contains both drawings and text about an imaginary creature with articulated segments, human-like legs, eyes on stalks, and a bird-like beak. McConnell’s  Curl-up was a complex exercise in geometry, physics, construction and materials science. McConnell identifies herself as both a hacker and a maker, as she confirmed to the Stratasys blog in an exclusive interview: “I am someone who likes to get into the guts of things, understand how they work, and to make changes to existing objects, especially repurposing them, often as opposed to buying something new.” McConnell, a past lead developer at Instructables, used their Objet500 Connex Multi -material 3D Printer from Stratasys to produce several iterations of the Escher Curl-up, experimenting with the size of the segmented pieces and various materials to produce [...]

By |May 12th, 2014|3D Printing / Additive Mfg, Stratasys|

Stratasys’ New Endur 3D Printing Material Looks and Functions Like Polypropylene

Reprinted from the Stratasys Blog -8 Apr. 2014 by Stratasys Staff In the video below, Boaz Jacobi, Product Marketing Manager at Stratasys, talks about the capabilities of Endur and examines some applicative models that look and behave like polypropylene in terms of flexibility, strength and toughness. Tweezers prototyped in Stratasys Endur 3D printing material to give polypropylene-like look and functionality This week, Stratasys expanded its portfolio of 3D printing materials with Endur, a newPolyJet 3D printing material. Endur has the chemical characteristics and composition to give models and prototypes a polypropylene-like look and functionality, much like the characteristics of standard plastics.     Connex3 and Objet30 Pro 3D Printers.

By |April 9th, 2014|3D Printing / Additive Mfg, Stratasys|

Cimquest 3D Printing and Rapid Prototyping Services

Cimquest offers 3D printing and rapid prototyping services. Using the Dimension 3D printers, the new uPrint 3D personal printer or the Stratasys FDM 400 we can print your parts from your 3D CAD data. The parts and assemblies are printed with ABS plastic, a strong, durable material that can be used for extensive testing of form, fit and function. Maintaining build tolerances of +-.005, the resultant parts/assemblies produced are dimensionally accurate. The completed ABS parts may have secondary operations performed, such as hole drilling and tapping, for further testing. Email us your CAD file (a solid from SolidWorks, Solidedge, Inventor, CATIA, Pro E, STEP, SAT or IGES) along with your phone number and one of our representatives will contact you with a quote. Get a Real 3D Model for FREE! Contact us today: Toll Free: 866-277-8778 or Email: sales@cimquest-inc.com

By |March 23rd, 2014|3D Printing / Additive Mfg, Services|
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