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Formlabs Releases Fuse 1 Selective Laser Sintering 3D Printer

By |2021-01-27T08:57:18-05:00January 27th, 2021|Categories: 3D Printing / Additive Mfg, FormLabs|

Formlabs just released the Fuse 1 selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printer. This totally re-designed SLS 3D printer is ready to deliver industrial grade nylon parts, right on your workbench. Delivering production-ready nylon at a low cost per part, a large build chamber to accommodate various project sizes, and the ability to print 24/7, no other SLS printer offers the quality and ease of use as the Fuse 1. Formlabs has also begun to ship [...]

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Fuse 1 – SLS Printer from Formlabs (Now Shipping)

By |2021-01-26T10:55:25-05:00January 26th, 2021|Categories: 2 Minute Tuesdays, 3D Printing / Additive Mfg, CQTV|

https://cimquesttv.wistia.com/medias/3qpy7m8i7d?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 Fuse 1 - SLS Printer from Formlabs (Now Shipping) The Fuse 1 brings affordable SLS into your workshop, capable of printing production-ready nylon parts. Finished parts balance strength flexibility and detail, great for rigorous functional testing or even small batch production.

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Casting Metal Parts for Prototyping from 3D Prints

By |2021-01-22T08:26:19-05:00January 22nd, 2021|Categories: 3D Printing / Additive Mfg, Ultimaker|

Sylatech is an investment casting firm that uses Ultimaker 3D printers to speed up their rapid prototyping process. Sylatech offers services in CNC machining, radio frequency and microwave manufacturing, and investment casting. They have been around for over 53 years and have customers in aerospace, space, defense, medical, automotive, and construction. Sylatech uses 3D printing as part of their investment casting process. Before using Ultimaker 3D printers, customers had to directly invest in tooling needed [...]

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New Partnership with MakerBot

By |2021-01-20T08:20:19-05:00January 20th, 2021|Categories: 3D Printing / Additive Mfg, MakerBot, News / Promos|

We are proud to announce a partnership with MakerBot. Founded in 2009, MakerBot brought one of the first mass-produced and readily available 3D printers to the market which earned their acquisition from Stratasys®, a leader in industrial FDM 3D printing. In recent years, MakerBot as a company has completely transformed their business with a new focus on the B2B market. This becomes apparent when you see that the METHOD Series 3D printers have 21 industrial [...]

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3DGence – FFF 3D Printing Platform

By |2021-01-18T16:19:24-05:00January 18th, 2021|Categories: 2 Minute Tuesdays, 3D Printing / Additive Mfg, CQTV|

https://cimquesttv.wistia.com/medias/msvxbkjsfw?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 3DGence - FFF 3D Printing Platform Capable of printing high temp & high performance materials, this robust solution is geared to accommodate a wide range of demanding industrial applications -- from concept modeling & functional prototyping, to manufacturing tooling and short-run production.

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New Dates for Xpand3D Manufacturing and Design Event

By |2021-01-15T08:20:44-05:00January 15th, 2021|Categories: News / Promos|

The xpand3D event will take place virtually April 20 & 21 We decided to push this virtual event off by a couple of months. We have been busy gathering content and we know that the further we push it off, the more great content we will be able to provide. Also, given the fact that Covid is going to prevent the previously scheduled spring in-person trade shows, this virtual gathering will nicely fill the gap [...]

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The Importance of Scan Alignment to Nominal CAD Model for Inspection

By |2021-01-13T08:04:36-05:00January 13th, 2021|Categories: 3D Scanning, 3d Scanning & Reverse Engineering|

While many tend to use Best Fit alignments for inspection, the truth is that the alignment method may not provide the most accurate inspection results. When using a Best Fit alignment process, you are relying on the inspection software to understand the design intent and align the scan of the manufactured part properly to the nominal CAD model. If datums aren’t provided to use for alignment by the inspection drawing or PMI model, you would [...]

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Creating Custom Tool Databases- Mastercam 2021

By |2021-01-12T10:02:55-05:00January 12th, 2021|Categories: 2 Minute Tuesdays, CQTV, Mastercam 2021 Video Series, Mastercam Video Series|

https://cimquesttv.wistia.com/medias/xtz6ge2ynh?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 Creating Custom Tool Databases - Mastercam 2021 By using the custom tool database you should be able to decrease some of the time it would take for programming, calculating feeds & speeds and hunting for tools in the default tool database/libraries.

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