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How To Choose Your First 3D Scanner – Part 3

By |2020-09-09T08:15:36-04:00September 9th, 2020|Categories: 3D Scanning, 3d Scanning & Reverse Engineering|

Welcome to Part 3 of our Metrology Minute series. In parts one and two of this three-part series, we explained several key components in choosing your company’s first scanner; Field of View (FOV), Accuracy, and Resolution are the first considerations. For a quick review . . . Field-Of-View (FOV) is the volume envelope that your scanner can ‘see’. Ideally, the FOV is large enough to scan your largest parts yet still maintain the accuracy and resolution [...]

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3D Printing Proves to be a Powerful Tool for Egar Tool and Die

By |2020-09-04T08:15:20-04:00September 4th, 2020|Categories: 3D Printing / Additive Mfg, Desktop Metal|

Based in Cambridge, Ontario Canada, Egar Tool and Die is a leader in the production of automotive stamping dies, production stampings and welded assemblies. The company has been supplying North American Tier 1 and 2 automotive companies for more than 40 years. The Challenge The automotive industry consists of a vast network of suppliers and vendors producing millions of parts for the thousands of assemblies and subassemblies that go into every vehicle on the road. [...]

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Innovative Manufacturing with BASF Ultrasint TPU01 and HP 3D Printers – Webinars on Demand

By |2020-09-03T14:16:03-04:00September 3rd, 2020|Categories: 3D Printing Webinar, Webinar 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 [...]

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HP Full Color 3D Printing for Tooling and Prototypes

By |2020-08-31T08:17:41-04:00August 31st, 2020|Categories: 3D Printing / Additive Mfg, HP Multi Jet Fusion Technology|

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 [...]

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More Manufacturers Embrace HP 3D Printing

By |2020-08-28T08:05:52-04:00August 28th, 2020|Categories: 3D Printing / Additive Mfg, HP Multi Jet Fusion Technology|

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 [...]

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Geomagic Design X Reverse Engineering Features

By |2020-08-26T08:08:12-04:00August 26th, 2020|Categories: 3d Scanning & Reverse Engineering|

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 [...]

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