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October 2017
Cimquest Now a Reseller of HP Multi Jet Fusion Technology
Cimquest has announced an agreement with HP Inc. to sell and support HP Jet Fusion 3D printersin the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast territories, encompassing the state of Virginia all the way through Maine.
“I am excited to combine Cimquest’s award winning customer service with HP’s award-winning 3D printing platform. Our 19 years of 3D printing and 28 years of subtractive manufacturing (Mastercam) experience […]
September 2017
Re-engineering Engineering with ANSYS
Additive manufacturing is the poster child of the engineering world right now. There are other posts on the web and on the ANSYS blog talking about this and what the opportunities are that it brings. But we need to talk about the changes that must be made to the whole product development process.
It’s pretty well understood that product development is pretty well down the path to shift away from a time when […]
AME Exhibitor Spotlight – Verisurf
Verisurf Software provides complete software and hardware solutions for computer-aided inspection, tool building, and reverse engineering to manufacturers around the world.
The Verisurf Inspection Suite tackles any inspection challenge head-on. It offers a unique, CAD-based architecture that can read all file formats, interoperate with any common mobile or stationary CMM (including arms, trackers, and scanner systems) and has the best reporting capabilities of any application on the market. […]
Reverse Engineering a 3D Pipe
This blog article will illustrate how to extract the centerline of a 3D pipe with compound angles. Extracting the centerline of a 3D pipe that contains angles in 2 dimensions is not that complicated. However, when you have compound angles, and the tube is bending in the X, Y, and Z directions simultaneously, extracting the centerline can be quite challenging.
For example, below we have a prototype […]
ProShop – AME 2017 Featured Exhibitor
A featured exhibitor at this year’s Advanced Manufacturing Expo, ProShop is a leader in Manufacturing ERP and shop management software. ProShop, a modern web based ERP that can manage every aspect of your front office and shop floor. Known for its interface and web-based navigation, ProShop links all corners of a company together to allow seamless management and decision making. It includes a collection of features […]
SolidWorks 2017 3D Offset on Curved Surfaces
There is new functionality in SolidWorks 2017 that allows you to offset 3D curves on a surface. Offsetting 2D geometry is very efficient. It allows you to quickly grab 2D geometry and create a same shape contour with a specified gap distance. However, when working with 3D sketches containing 3D curves, it’s not as simple. As of SolidWorks 2016, many steps were required to accomplish this task. […]