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May 2016
Stratasys Announces GrabCAD Print
Stratasys today unveiled a bold, new software strategy designed to make 3D printing significantly easier, more intuitive and highly accessible. The approach is powered by a new, open architecture “design-to-3D print” workflow application, GrabCAD Print* – residing on the popular GrabCAD SaaS platform and supported by a community of more than 3 million designers, engineers and students.
GrabCAD Print is designed to make 3D printing fast and easy-to-use, while reducing errors by eliminating requirements to […]
Curvature Continuous Edge Fillet – SolidWorks 2016
There is a new enhancement in SolidWorks 2016 that will allow you to define the edges of constant and variable fillets as curvature continuous. This option creates a smoother curvature between adjacent surfaces. Here’s an example of how it works . . .
The part shown above contains two surfaces that meet at a sharp edge. Select the edge, and go to […]
Objet Connex 3 Overview
The Objet Connex 3 by Stratasys is a renowned series of machines in the 3D printing industry. The Connex 3 first entered the market in 2014, functioning through PolyJet technology. Its release was monumental as it was the first 3D platform to offer multi-material, multi-color 3D printing. Since then, it has evolved into an industry standard, operating at an elite level of performance that […]
April 2016
Professors Teach Students About Water by 3D Printing It
Repost from http://3dprint.com/
Ryerson University professors Claire Oswald and Claus Rinner have come up with a novel way to teach their students about local watersheds and the problems that they face. Working with Ryerson-affiliated 3D printing company Think2Thing, they’ve begun 3D printing scale models of Toronto watersheds, so that their students can actually hold the bodies of water in their hands. So far, they’ve printed every watershed in the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority.
Liquid Silicone Rubber Molds with PolyJet
Liquid Silicone Rubber is a broadly used non-reactive compound. Its high resistance to extreme environments and temperatures make it a perfect seal material for aerospace, defense, and automotive components, but it is also used in sporting goods, medical devices, and consumer products.
Unlike traditional thermoplastics which are melted before injection molding, LSR starts as […]
SOLIDWORKS 2016 Mate Positions
SolidWorks 2016 includes an enhancement for creating and editing mates that will allow you to manipulate specific mates such as: angle, distance, Limit Angle, Limit Distance, Slot, and Width mates all in one convenient table called the Mate Controller.
In Mate Controller, you can show and save the positions of assembly components at various mate values and degrees of freedom without using configurations for each […]