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Real-world ROI: Top Success Stories with 3D Printing

By |2020-12-03T08:46:08-05:00October 14th, 2020|Categories: 3D Printing / Additive Mfg, Ultimaker|

Real-world ROI: Top Success Stories with 3D Printing Do you find it challenging to understand the potential 3D printing holds for your organization? It can be easier to understand its benefits by studying real-world cases. The following companies have incorporated additive manufacturing technology into their day-to-day operations to great success, maximizing their return on investment (ROI). Volkswagen Autoeuropa Volkswagen Autoeuropa uses Ultimaker 3D printers to create tools, jigs, and fixtures for use on its assembly [...]

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Snow Business: 3D Printing Final Parts for High-value Snow Machines

By |2021-01-06T08:28:32-05:00October 12th, 2020|Categories: Ultimaker|

Snow Business is the world leader in snow and winter effects. The company develops snow machines that are used in the film and TV industry as well as on Christmas fairs and other live events. They use their Ultimaker 3D printers for prototyping, functional testing, and creating final parts for the snow machines. In-house 3D printing significantly speeds up their iterative design process and yields considerable cost savings along the way. Since they work with [...]

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Mastercam 2021 New 2D Dynamic Corner Pretreatment

By |2020-10-12T08:20:17-04:00October 12th, 2020|Categories: Mastercam, Tech Tips|

Let’s take a look at Corner Pretreatment - a new option added to the 2D Dynamic Mill toolpath in Mastercam 2021. Corner Pretreatment is a new option that allows for the addition of depth cuts and adjusted step overs to any sharp corners on your parts. This will help in controlling tool motion to reduce the chance of tool chatter and tool overload. Once this option is turned on, you can then setup your operation [...]

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Cimquest Turns 30 Years Old

By |2020-10-16T08:38:14-04:00October 9th, 2020|Categories: News / Promos|

This month Cimquest becomes 30 years old! While a small percentage of companies ever make it to that milestone an even smaller group makes that lengthy journey under the stewardship of the original founder. Even though this can be considered a great achievement, I feel that the passing of time is not a significant measurement of accomplishment. In fact, I am reminded of a poem that my mom loved and which was delivered at her [...]

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Metrology Minute – Airfoil Analysis using Control X

By |2020-10-07T09:24:10-04:00October 7th, 2020|Categories: 3d Scanning & Reverse Engineering, Tech Tips|

Analyzing airfoil shapes is easier than ever using the Control X Airfoil Analysis technology. Upon completion of scanning the airfoil and aligning with the nominal CAD model, the software is able to return dozens of useful parameters necessary for complete airfoil analysis. Some of the parameters include: Leading and trailing edge radii Leading and trailing edge positions in space Maximum chord height Leading (and trailing) Edge position in space relative to the model origin. Axial [...]

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Mastercam Announces New 5X Mill Post Processors

By |2020-10-05T08:26:45-04:00October 5th, 2020|Categories: Mastercam, News / Promos|

Mastercam Announces New 5X Mill Post Processors for the SINUMERIK 840D / SINUMERIK ONE Control Mastercam announced new 5-axis milling post-processors that will unleash the highest productivity on SINUMERIK-controlled machine tools. These new post processors were developed utilizing the technical expertise of Siemens CNC engineers. These post processors include support for SINUMERIK 840D and SINUMERIK ONE CNCs from Siemens. Some features include: Table/Table (AC/BC/Nutating) Support. Rotary and Vector Programming. Advanced Surface / Top Surface (COMPCAD [...]

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