It's been 5 years since we began our partnership with Hurco CNC and Alta Enterprises. We are extremely happy to continue that relationship by using and showing the great capabilities of their CNC Machines. We first received a Hurco VM 10Ui 5 -axis mill and a Takumi H10 VMC back in Sept of 2017. The VM 10Ui has made its way to a new home running production parts and we now have the Takumi H10 [...]
This blog post will show you the best way to orient and support your resin prints for the Formlabs 3 and 3L SLA printers. By modifying the support touch point size and density, you can have resin parts that simply break off of the support which reduces your post-processing time. When it comes to supporting models for SLA 3D printing, the goal is to have the least amount of support while still securing the model [...]
Tuccamirgan's Pipe of Peace: Scanned and 3D Printed In this week’s 2 Minute Tuesday, we will take a look at how 3D Scanning, Scan Processing, and 3D Printing technology can be used to intricately recreate important artifacts. In this case, we were granted the privilege of recreating Chief Tuccamirgan of the Wickcheoche tribe’s peace pipe that was provided by the Hunterdon County Historical Society.
3D Printed Prosthetics To Save A Bird’s Life While caretakers at ZooTampa were performing a routine check-up on a 25-year-old great hornbill, they found a lesion at the base of the bird’s casque, the yellow helmet-like growth on top of the head. Further examination determined that the bird, named Crescent, was suffering from life-threatening cancer. The great hornbill is one of the most endangered bird species on the planet, driven out of its habitat by [...]
Outsourcing vs. In-House: When Does it Make Sense to Bring SLS 3D Printing In-House? Do you ever wonder about the value proposition of bringing selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printers in-house and how it compares with outsourcing SLS parts from a service bureau? Or have you ever wondered about what it would be like to post-process these parts? In "Outsourcing vs. In-House: When Does it Make Sense to Bring SLS 3D Printing In-House?" a white [...]
Color Mapping in Verify - Mastercam 2023 In this week’s 2 Minute Tuesday, we will examine how Mastercam gives you choices for mapping colors identically or independently in the main interface and the Mastercam Simulator, also known as Verify.
A reprint from Hunterdon Historical Record, by Russ Lockwood Tuccamirgan's peace pipe and its two 3D replicas made with a 3D printer. On October 19, 1925, the Case family donated a Native-American pipe made of soapstone to the Hunterdon County Historical Society (HCHS). Indeed, members of the Wickcheoche Tribe and Wickcheoche Council attended the donation ceremony at the Lenape Chief Tuccamirgan's grave in the Case family cemetery on Bonnell Street in Flemington. The [...]
The First Environmental Evaluation of 3D-Printed Footwear A team of graduate students at Yale’s Center for Business and the Environment worked with HILOS and with data provided by their supply chain partners - BASF Forward AM and AMT - to examine each piece of their environmental impact. They then benchmarked the results against traditional footwear supply chain emissions to answer the following questions: How does 3D-printed footwear compare to legacy shoemaking? Where does the technology [...]
