Formlabs Elastic Resin
Elastic Resin can simulate molded silicone, making it possible to print soft, resilient prototypes right on the desktop.
Moving into the New Year
A letter from our CEO As we reset the business year and pick ourselves off of the floor I reflect on the year gone by. Cimquest went thru a very challenging but necessary transition over the past 17 months which still, in part, continues today. We embarked on a journey leaving the safety of Stratasys and the valued business relationships with both our customers and vendor. This transition meant losing more than half of our [...]
Cimquest Receives 1st HP 580 Series 3D Printer in New England
We are excited to be the first company in New England to receive our new HP 580 Series 3D Printer! The machine is fully installed, and we have started to build parts. Tailored for small/medium-sized development teams, design firms, and universities, HP’s new printer is a compact solution for producing injection mold quality parts. This automated system integrates material mixing and loading, printing, and reclaiming material in one machine. Teams can accelerate their design cycle by [...]
Formlabs Announces New Elastic Resin Material
Formlabs just announced their latest new engineering resin. This soft engineering resin (50A Shore durometer) is suitable for prototyping parts normally produced with silicone that need to bend, stretch and compress. Due to its high elongation (160%) and good tear strength (19.1kN/m) it will hold up to repeated cycles without tearing. Elastic resin is also translucent which is ideal for healthcare and medical applications where visual simulation is required. Please click the button below for [...]
Moldex3D Tech Tip: Import Curves
Import Curves in Moldex3D for Quick Venting Setting Moldex3D’s pre-processing tools enable you to set venting. The main purpose of venting is to allow the air trapped during the injection molding process to escape and prevent surface defects, such as burning, flash, short shots and air traps, and severe volume shrinkage. Importing curves in Moldex3D’s venting setting eliminates the need for manually selecting the venting boundary. It provides you with a more streamlined workflow, reducing [...]
Ringing in 2019
All of us at Cimquest would like to wish you a very happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year! We are very much looking forward to ringing in 2019. It is going to be a great year with many new technological advances. We will be here at your side to help you take advantage of new innovations that will make your jobs easier and your business more profitable. Cheers! Please note that our offices will be [...]
3D Printing For High Thermal Stability
Formlabs is pleased to announce the latest formulation of High Temp Resin, part of their library of Engineering Resins for the Form 2 desktop stereolithography (SLA) 3D printer. High Temp Resin offers the highest heat deflection temperature (HDT) among Formlabs resins and is suitable for printing detailed, precise parts with high thermal stability. The new formulation, shipping now, has an HDT of 238 °C @ 0.45 MPa and improved elongation to decrease brittleness. Over the [...]
Happy Holidays
We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy, safe and prosperous holiday season. We will be closed tomorrow to celebrate Christmas, but we will be back to business on Wednesday, Dec 26th.