Desktop Metal Shop System Overview
The Desktop Metal Shop System is the world’s first metal binder jetting machine and it’s designed with the modern machine shop in mind. The Shop System offers superior surface finish and resolution on metal parts and it does this without the labor-intensive support removal required with traditional metal systems. To begin the printing process, the printer spreads metal powder across the build bed. Next, it precisely jets a binding agent to bond loose powder and define part geometry. Once the layer is complete, the build bed lowers and a new layer of powder is spread. The process repeats until the build volume is packed with bound parts. The surrounding loose powder serves as the support material throughout the build. Once a build is complete, the build box is removed and placed in a drying oven, followed by powder station for bulk and fine depowdering. Loose powder is recovered through a built-in recycling system. In the final step, parts are placed in a shop-safe furnace for batch sintering. After cooling, the parts are hand removed from sintering setters. This hand removal eliminates Hours of machining off supports typical to laser-based systems. Final parts are fully dense and near-net shape right out of the furnace. [...]
Cimquest Responds to the Pandemic
Cimquest’s business is to help people. So, at a time of global emergency, it comes as no surprise that Cimquest and its staff were quick to lend their resources to the fight against COVID-19. “Our headquarters are in New Jersey, and that has been one of the areas hardest hit by the Coronavirus. Luckily, everyone is chipping in. A lot of our customers are changing what they’re doing to help out,” shared Shawn Crews, president of Cimquest. While most of Cimquest’s 60 employees are working safely from home, a select few are running the 3D printers in their New Jersey lab to produce PPE for medical personnel. Cimquest Founder and CEO Rob Hassold made sure that this skeleton crew is practicing social distancing and taking extra sanitary measures as they work in the printing labs. The projects these employees are working on were brought to them by Jimmy Barrera, engineering services manager. Various requests from hospitals had come in to produce headbands for face shields. Barrera assessed each individual need and then consulted Crews and Hassold as to what Cimquest could do to help. In most cases, Cimquest 3D printed the headbands at no charge as a donation. The end customer then assembled [...]
Nexa3D Launches New High-Performance Polymer Material xCE-Black
Fast single cure polymer for heavy-duty parts and injection molding tools High flexural strength comparable only to dual-cure cyanate ester resins Isotropic properties for automotive, electronics and industrial components Nexa3D, the maker of ultra-fast stereolithography production 3D printers, recently announced the immediate availability of its latest additive manufacturing material xCE-Black, a high performance polymer for producing end-use plastic parts and injection molding tools in minutes. Nexa3D’s new material is a single cure polymer that delivers higher flexural strength compared to those typically achieved only in dual cure cyanate ester resins. xCE-Black has excellent isotropic properties and exhibits long-term environmental stability making it well suited for a variety of automotive parts, electronics and many industrial components as well as the production of injection molding tools. “Our rapid materials portfolio and reseller network expansion are consistent with our post-Covid-19 plan to deliver greater supply chain resiliency to our customers,” said Izhar Medalsy, COO, Nexa3D. “With every addition of new materials and market coverage, we are taking decisive steps to deliver a substantial speed and productivity upgrade to our customers through our fast industrial printers and high-performance polymers at an attractive cost of ownership.” The company tested xCE-Black extensively in a variety of end uses and [...]
Verisurf – From Blank Screen to a Fully Automated Inspection Plan
Verisurf - From Blank Screen to a Fully Automated Inspection Plan In this presentation, we will prepare users to develop and execute an inspection plan in Verisurf using the AUTOMATE module. We will demonstrate a pre-built inspection plan within the AUTOMATE module and display a 3-2-1 alignment and inspection of a connecting arm. We will develop how to assess the resulting data in the pre-built report, as well as include a discussion of the Universal CMM (UCMM). Find out how to use your Verisurf’s UCMM product to present an alternative to limited proprietary solutions and ultimately provide the CMM user with an identical Mastercam interface. https://cimquesttv.wistia.com/medias/3kwpu838pi?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640
Geomagic Reverse Engineering – Modeling Wizards
Webinar Geomagic Reverse Engineering - Modeling Wizards Geomagic Design X is one of the best reverse engineering software's out in the market. There are so many features available to users. For example one can take a scan, trace over it, create real 2D sketches, and 3D CAD features. Time is costly so are there any shortcuts to get us from point A to point B? Yes, by using the Wizards that are built right in the software. In this webinar we will explore the built in feature and see Wizards work in action. Join us as we demonstrate utilizing Wizards and reap the benefits of time saved by leveraging these when reverse engineering. https://cimquesttv.wistia.com/medias/3rlrxoysep?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640
Design Optimization for MJF using Netfabb
Design Optimization for MJF using Netfabb HP Multi Jet Fusion allows you to print anything from Topology-optimized parts, hollowed forms or even small lattice structures. These kinds of designs aid in reducing the weight of the part, the thermal heat map per part, the quantity of material used, as well the operating cost of your HP MJF printer. In this webinar we will use Autodesk Netfabb to show how to optimize parts using hollowing and lattice structures which in turn will not affect the function of your design, but rather will improve repeatability and lower material cost thus improving part quality overall. https://cimquesttv.wistia.com/medias/uuo654nu4m?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640