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June 2018
Form 2 Engineering Materials
The Form 2 3D printer offers professional-level 3D printing at a lower barrier to entry relative to industrial SLA machines. It is capable of producing detailed models with smooth surface finish, making it a sound solution for iterative prototyping, fixtures and manufacturing tooling.
The Form 2 currently has 6 engineering grade materials in its portfolio, each with their own unique characteristics and […]
Formlabs Introduces Ceramic Resin and Changes Everything
Formlabs formally recently announced a new ceramic resin for the Form 2 3D printer. This is a notable departure from their traditional materials, which have up to now been various types of photopolymers. While they’ve marketed strong, flexible and colorful materials, they’ve never released a ceramic resin, until now.
Ceramic 3D prints are highly desirable in a number of situations, and are produced in quite […]
Visit us at Atlantic Design & Manufacturing
The Atlantic Design and Manufacturing Show is the East Coast’s largest annual Design & Manufacturing event. It connects you with more than 9,000 engineers and executives, as well as hundreds of leading suppliers, across the advanced design and manufacturing spectrum. Find the design and manufacturing solutions, innovations, and inspiration you need to solve your toughest challenges while staying on top of the latest advancements in the industry. This year […]
Jewelry Customization with 3D Printing
Founded in 1933, leading German wedding ring manufacturer egf Manufaktur is shortening the feedback loop between designer and customer tenfold, blending a custom software solution with desktop digital fabrication to create a modern, highly personalized customer experience.
“Every wedding ring is individualized and made-to-order. They’re more important than any other jewelry product in showing the customer’s individual ideas,” said Nick-Maximilian Binder, assistant to the managing director at egf, and leader of the on-site 3D printing project.
“That’s […]
May 2018
Making Additive Manufacturing Sustainable and Inclusive
Rize recently hosted a live Webinar called “How to Make Additive Manufacturing Sustainable and Inclusive.” The goal of this webinar was to help users of additive manufacturing better understand how to drive increased sustainability and inclusivity in their manufacturing operations and why that’s so important. The discussion focused on how Rize’s patented Augmented Polymer Deposition (APD) hybrid process enables sustainability and inclusivity by providing the […]
Differences Between Scan-Based and CAD-Based Neutral Files
Scan-based files involve cleaning up the scan, optimizing the mesh quality, and ensuring that the scanned mesh is watertight. At this point we can generate the neutral file based on this processed scan data.
CAD-based is bit more labor intensive. It involves interrogating the mesh, creating CAD sketches and CAD features and […]