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July 2020
Mold Making with Formlabs 3D Printers
This post will explore 3D printing for mold making using Formlabs 3D printers. Mold making with desktop 3D printing allows engineers to expand their prototyping toolkit. It opens up a world of production materials, offering the ability to make short-run batches and to test designs before larger-scale production. Three types of molding strategies can be applied with Formlabs. These include injection molding, […]
New Mastercam Chamfer Drill
A new toolpath called Mastercam Chamfer Drill has been added to Mastercam 2021. This new Chamfer Drill toolpath allows you to use a chamfer tool, spot drill, or drill to chamfer multiple size holes in a single operation. In practice, this will allow you to use a single spot drill to make the desired root chamfer on many holes in one operation.
Join Us for Our Live In-Person 3D Printing Technology Tour
That’s right . . . an in-person event. But don’t worry. We are doing everything possible to ensure that this will be a safe social distancing event.
Cimquest will be hosting a unique event next week – July 14th to the 17th! If you are tired of being stuck at home and want to be able to see the latest technologies in 3D Printing, Scanning and […]
Metrology Minute – How Do I Choose My First Scanner? – Part 1
Considering part sizes
Notice that the title says first scanner. More than likely, companies who invest in non-contact inspection, scan-based reverse engineering or need to perhaps scan and 3D print objects will own multiple scanners in the course of a career. However, some scanners have the ability to swap out lenses, projectors and the like and can change a scanner’s capabilities […]
How to Use Mastercam 2D Highspeed Dynamic Toolpath Air Regions
This article will cover using Mastercam Air Regions when cutting open geometry in the 2D Highspeed Dynamic toolpath. With multiple open sides many times programmers will try to select the inside edges of the open Geom. In this example, we will select the geometry along the two walls. This image below illustrates the preview chains utility that shows what the toolpath […]
Formlabs Launches New Materials
One of the most powerful advantages of stereolithography (SLA) 3D printing is the wide range of printing materials and Formlabs recently announced six new materials across the Form 3, Form 3B, and Form 2 SLA 3D printers. These new resins continue to challenge what’s possible with 3D printing by further expanding use cases and design possibilities with our existing printers. Our latest resins support […]