Innovative Manufacturing with BASF Ultrasint TPU01 and HP 3D Printers – Webinars on Demand
Innovative Manufacturing with BASF Ultrasint TPU01 and HP 3D Printers Ultrasint® TPU01 is a multi-purpose thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) powder, ideal for the production of parts requiring shock absorption, energy return or flexibility. 3D Printed TPU drives prototyping, customization, and manufacturing by opening the design and functionality of parts that could never be injection molded. This gives manufacturers the ability to customize plastic parts for the individual, including leveraging lattice internal structure to lighten or help cool parts. TPU01 is extremely easy to print, has a very high process stability, and one of the highest throughputs for flexible materials in the 3D printing market, making it a perfect fit for serial production with HP Jet Fusion 3D Printers. https://cimquesttv.wistia.com/medias/uoltf15s0h?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640
HP Full Color 3D Printing for Tooling and Prototypes
Let’s take a look at HP 3D printing for full-color tooling and prototyping. Satair is a leading provider of aftermarket solutions for civil aerospace. Airplane repairs are an essential element of their business and they are always looking to accelerate repair times. One of their main bottlenecks can be in the production of tooling. Traditional methods are both timely and costly and Satair has a unique safety requirement in which tools have to be colored to a certain spec of orange or red. While they used 3D printing in the past, the machines only allowed them to print in solid colors, which required post-processing like painting or dyeing. By adopting the HP Jet Fusion 580, they were able to start printing fully functional tools in vibrant full color. The 580 system was a great fit because it provided both high-strength material and colored features right out of the printer. Satair sees the opportunity for 1000 of tools to be converted from traditionally manufactured to additively manufactured. The 500 Series is also great for prototyping. Oakley, the sports eyewear company, uses the HP to print full-color prototypes. The PA 12 material is lightweight yet durable, making it similar to injection molded Nylon parts. Some [...]
More Manufacturers Embrace HP 3D Printing
Extol leverages the manufacturing industry’s familiarity with polypropylene combined with the capabilities of HP Multi Jet Fusion technology to help customers decrease time to market through design validation efficiency. They specialize in plastics assembly technology, custom automation, and engineering services. With a customer-centric, values-driven approach, Extol serves its customers across their value stream to help them improve the way plastic products are made for industries such as automotive, life sciences, and consumer products. In Extol’s Process Development Center, teams assemble functional prototypes of fluid reservoirs using polypropylene (PP) parts made from injection molding, which are provided by their customers. It typically takes up to 7 weeks for Extol’s customers to injection mold these parts, but once the parts arrive at Extol, they can be joined using hot-plate welding in only 1 day. Using injection molding to create the prototypes of these parts delays the functional testing and overall validation processes, so Extol’s customers are constantly pursuing faster design cycles and improved validation efficiency. Extol had been using 3D printing internally for years and realized that the technology could provide value to customers in situations like this. “We learned from our customers that many of them wanted to use 3D printing to find value [...]
Geomagic Design X Reverse Engineering Features
This blog post will compare two modeling tools in Geomagic Design X, the Sweep and Pipe Wizards. Modeling wizards are intelligent tools used to extract 2 or 3-dimensional sketches, profiles, and features, from 3D scan data. They help users perform tasks in an automated fashion, tasks that would otherwise be very complicated to perform manually. Let’s take a look at the Sweep wizard. This tool quickly extracts sweep objects from a mesh. It intelligently computes sectional profiles and the path based on the selected regions. In this example, we have a compound curve elbow. We can auto segment the scan to identify all of the features. We can also analyze it with Sweep Wizard. By selecting the surface, the computer opens up two different viewpoints where we can analyze the geometry. We click OK and hide the scan model, so we can see the generated surface. As we can see, the generated surface is very accurate to the original scan. The main goal was to capture the path shown below, a compound curve. This would be very difficult to extract through manual measurement, and the result would not be as accurate. Next, we will analyze the same feature with Pipe Wizard. We repeat [...]
RIZE Debuts Rizium Glass Fiber Filament for Full-Color 3D Printing
reprint from https://3dprintingindustry.com/ 3D printer manufacturer RIZE has debuted its new highly-durable RIZIUM Glass Fiber filament for use with its 3D printers. The composite material claims to have high dimensional stability and high stiffness and is primarily intended for large-part production. RIZIUM Glass Fiber is also RIZE’s only composite material to date that is suitable for full-color parts produced on the company’s xRize 3D printer. Ronnie Sherrer, an Application Engineer at 3D printing service provider Azoth, states: “We like the print reliability that RIZIUM Glass Fiber delivers to the RIZE product line. Azoth can be confident in the quality and strength of RIZIUM GF parts. Being able to transform 3D rendered models into accurate full-color parts is something our customers love.” Functional gearbox front 3D printed with RIZIUM Glass Fiber. Photo via RIZE. Large-format full-color 3D printing RIZIUM Glass Fiber is compatible with every 3D printer in RIZE’s current portfolio. The composite is based on the company’s unique cyclic olefin-based matrix, which reportedly does not release harmful emissions at typical extrusion temperatures. It also features extremely low moisture absorption characteristics and has excellent chemical resistance. The filament leverages RIZE’s Augmented Polymer Deposition technology, whereby filaments are able to combine with [...]
Verisurf for Metrology
Using a Portable Arm for Part Inspection This blog post will introduce you to using a portable, 6-axis arm and powerful metrology software for part inspection. The software that we will be referring to is Verisurf and the 6-axis arm metrology software for part inspection is Master 3D Gage. Read on to learn how these tools are used. The Master 3D Gage is a 4-foot arm capable of measuring from very small to fairly sizeable parts using either a probe tip or scanning device. In this article, we will focus on probe-based inspection. Verisurf software runs ‘inside’ of Mastercam, the most popular and widely used CAM software in the world. This enables both CNC part programmers and part inspectors to use the exact same User Interface to program as well as inspect parts. While this article explains Verisurf running the Master 3D Gage, the software could also be used to program manual and automated CMM’s, trackers, and even laser projectors. In fact, there are dozens of metrology devices that may be driven by Verisurf metrology software. The first part of any inspection involves an alignment process. In this example, we placed six virtual targets onto the model to then be used for part [...]