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January 2017
3D Printing Lets Young Designers Reimagine Product Concepts
Design 2020 student project – creating the ultimate bicycle bottle with the help of 3D printing.
Today’s design students will be tomorrow’s engineers, and to help prepare them for their future challenges, Silicon Valley-based Innodesign, Stratasys and Dassault Systèmes recently partnered on the Design 2020 program. Design 2020 offered 20 Korean designers in their 20s a chance to become fully proficient in 3D design. Covering everything […]
Makerbot Replicator+ 3D Printer Overview
MakerBot is an influential brand in the 3D Printing industry, acknowledged by many as a standard in consumer desktop printers and with the release of the Replicator +, they have descended deeper into the prosumer market through a highly refined printing platform. This platform can be used in product development, providing convenient access to prototypes and concept models early on in the design process. […]
Stratasys 3D Printing Creates Racing Motorcycle Parts Fast and Economically
Buckeye Current, from Ohio State University (OSU), is one of the fastest collegiate electric motorcycle teams in the world. A big part of their success is the ability to design and produce one-off motorcycle components to their exacting specifications – quickly and cost-effectively. That’s where Stratasys 3D Printing comes in.
The OSU team’s intent was to design and build a custom motorcycle […]
SolidWorks 2017 Wrap onto Freeform Surfaces
There is a significant enhancement with the Wrap function in SolidWorks 2017. In the past, SolidWorks has been able to Wrap a 2D sketch onto a CAD model, but it had to be either a cylindrical or cone-shaped face. In addition, you could only Wrap to a single face; multiple faces were not supported, but now in SolidWorks 2017, these limitations have been removed. In the […]
Speedo Takes Lead in Swim Gear Design with Multi-material 3D Printing
Using a Stratasys 3D Printer for design verification during the product development cycle means that many more design iterations are feasible, weeding out mistakes and creating better-designed products.
Top swimming gear brand Speedo has used its Stratasys Objet350 Connex […]
December 2016
Streamlined Workflows Deliver Ease of Use for 3D Inspection
A major step forward in metrology software
By Joel Pollet
The new Geomagic Control X inspection product from 3D Systems offers a computer-aided design (CAD)-like interface and an improved workflow for Geomagic Control users. By including extended product manufacturing information support, users of popular CAD systems can now seamlessly transfer critical inspection information, such as datum features, directly from their CAD product to Control X without the need to re-create it from scratch.
By having all of the […]