Seeking Applications Engineering Specialist
Cimquest is hiring and is looking for an Applications Engineering Specialist. Job description below. If you are interested in applying, please provide your resume and salary expectations to careers@cimquest-inc.com. OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION: This position is for an Application Engineering Specialist for our growing line of 3D Printer solutions including HP and Desktop Metal as well as several other technologies. The specialist will be based out of our 25,000 sq ft Branchburg, NJ headquarters. Approximately 30% travel will be required; however, most of that would be within a 4-hour drive radius of our NJ facility. Full training will be provided for the technician both internally and by our vendors. Provide application consulting with clients and Cimquest sales reps Help manage the usage of our own 3D Printers for printing demo and print service parts Manage certain product/vendor relationships from a technical aspect Provide 3D Printer installation and training services at customer sites Service 3D Printers Provide professional and customer service oriented telephone support for customers Help manage the usage of our own 3D Printers for printing demo and print service parts Provide demonstrations of the 3D Printers at our facility and trade shows Post-process parts as well as package and ship parts to customers COMPENSATION [...]
Geomagic Wrap for Point Cloud Editing
Let’s take a look at Geomagic Wrap, a powerful software for point cloud or mesh editing. Wrap has a collection of tools used for cleaning and finalizing polygonal files to make them suitable for part inspection, reverse engineering, 3D Printing, and more. The files can come from a traditional CAD system, a laser or structural light scanner, or even a CT scanner. While standard tools for patching of holes is very robust, other tools for making mesh files less dense (aka Decimation) or increasing a scan’s polygons (aka Refining a Mesh) offer excellent control over mesh file resolution. The Closed Manifold Tool checks to see if mesh files form full volumes and would therefore be 3D printable or could be made into a solid model. The quick smoothing of edges and rough spots on a part are quick to execute, using the enhanced Smoothing set of tools. The Defeature tool functions as a magic eraser. Anyone who has dealt with mesh files is familiar with trying to adjust certain areas of a part where the mesh didn’t necessarily come out smooth due to either dirt or grease on the part or simply a bad scan. Isolating and exporting of individual analytic part features [...]
How Innovative Plastics Is Using Desktop Metal 3D Printing
Using the Studio System by Desktop Metal, Innovative Plastics created mold cavities and cores in far less time - and at significantly less cost - than traditional methods. In addition, the company was able to incorporate features like internal channels into the molds, reducing molding cycle time and increasing their productivity. The most common manufacturing method for plastic parts, injection molding works by forcing melted plastic into a mold under pressure. Within seconds, the plastic cools, allowing the mold to open and eject the solidified part, and the cycle starts again. Today, the injection molding process is used to produce a huge variety of parts and products, everything from children’s toys to automotive parts to surgical tools. For companies, like Innovative Plastics, that specialize in the process, many of the challenges they face come down to one key issue - speed. With constant iteration in product design and the demand for tens of millions of plastic parts per year, injection molding companies must be able to create new molds and retool manufacturing lines quickly to minimize downtime. In addition to quickly creating molds for new products, molding companies also seek to shorten the cycle time - the time it takes to inject plastic, [...]
Cimquest Partners with XACT Metal
Cimquest has teamed up with the State College, Pennsylvania-based Xact Metal to bring their low entry cost and small footprint, laser powder bed fusion metal 3D printer to budding enterprise shops and manufacturers without sacrificing quality or accuracy. For a number of years, Metal Laser Powder Bed Fusion technologies have been somewhat out of reach to small to mid-size machine shops due to cost, space, or inaccurate perceptions about what it takes to adopt the technology. LPBF has been highly popular in industries like medical device and aerospace who are looking for highly complex metal geometries that may be difficult or near impossible to machine, for the benefit of weight reduction, component consolidation, efficiency, and reducing cost in low volumes of highly specialized parts. The founders and engineers of Xact Metal saw an opportunity to create an easy to use, space-saving, and most importantly a low-cost point of entry into this capability with the XM200C. Driven by the patent-pending Xact Core™, a high-speed precision X-Y gantry system, as opposed to traditional galvanometer ones, that allows light and simple mirrors to move quickly, consistently, and always perpendicular to the powder bed to maintain accuracies down to .002”. The 125in³ volume is big enough to [...]
How To Choose Your First 3D Scanner – Part 3
Welcome to Part 3 of our Metrology Minute series. In parts one and two of this three-part series, we explained several key components in choosing your company’s first scanner; Field of View (FOV), Accuracy, and Resolution are the first considerations. For a quick review . . . Field-Of-View (FOV) is the volume envelope that your scanner can ‘see’. Ideally, the FOV is large enough to scan your largest parts yet still maintain the accuracy and resolution you require. Accuracy is the actual tolerance of the points acquired on the surface being scanned. So if a scanner’s accuracy is +/-.001”, then the data points collected from that scanner in a calibrated state are all within that tolerance. Resolution is a scanner’s ability to capture fine detail. Resolution is sometimes referred to as ‘Point Spacing’ and controls the tiniest features a scanner can capture. Sometimes it is easier to consider resolution as the density of the point cloud. For example, capturing a car door’s surface requires a far less dense point cloud than capturing the detail on a coin. The next two considerations are Repeatability and Color/Texture. Testing for repeatability is fairly straightforward. Ideally, multiple individuals can participate in the testing / resulting accuracy and everyone's [...]
3D Printing Proves to be a Powerful Tool for Egar Tool and Die
Based in Cambridge, Ontario Canada, Egar Tool and Die is a leader in the production of automotive stamping dies, production stampings and welded assemblies. The company has been supplying North American Tier 1 and 2 automotive companies for more than 40 years. The Challenge The automotive industry consists of a vast network of suppliers and vendors producing millions of parts for the thousands of assemblies and subassemblies that go into every vehicle on the road. While some of those components are cast, forged or machined, a large percentage are stamped or formed from various types of sheet metals using large stamping presses, capable of bending, cutting, forming, coining, and piercing the raw material. To deal with constant iteration in automotive design and the demand for huge numbers of parts, suppliers must be able to quickly retool and refit manufacturing lines to minimize downtime. And for many companies, that’s where Egar Tool and Die comes in. At Egar Tool and Die, the challenges are two-fold. First, the company must be able to quickly produce dies to meet customer requirements. But as a producer of more than 15 million stamped parts and welded assemblies annually, Egar - like many of its customers - must be [...]