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March 2018
Special Dinner at AMUG
Are you planning to attend AMUG (the Additive Manufacturing Users Group) taking place in St. Louis on April 8 – 12, 2018? This Users Group Meeting is dedicated to the advancement of Additive Manufacturing Technology and is open to anyone involved with commercially available additive manufacturing and 3D printing technology. If you are planning to attend this User Group Meeting, we would like to invite you […]
Mastercam Celebrates 35 Years
The year 2018 marks the 35th anniversary of CNC Software, Inc., developers of Mastercam CAD/CAM software. In 1983, two brothers, Mark and Jack Summers, came up with a new concept for programming CNC (Computer-Numerical-Control) machine tools. A third brother, Brian Summers, soon joined and together they developed a PC-based CAD/CAM software package that laid the foundation for what would be Mastercam, the world’s most […]
Rize 3D Printing – Jigs & Fixtures
The Rize One is a machine capable of producing engineering grade parts and it eliminates many of the headaches associated with post-processing. Tooling, jigs, and fixtures are essential components of the manufacturing process. They serve as the supporting cast, helping with everything from aligning and holding product components, to assembling and testing sub-assemblies at all stages of production.
In product design, as processes improve and new […]
Design For Manufacturing Using Multi Jet Fusion
With Multi Jet Fusion technology we have the ability to reinvent manufacturing and design. Tomorrow HP is hosting an online presentation that will cover the cost justification for Multi Jet Fusion adoption, focusing on product designers and manufacturers looking to increase productivity and profitability using Multi Jet Fusion.
This webinar will be presented by David Woodlock, Market Development – 3D Printing at HP Jet Fusion. […]
Mastercam 2018 Angle Sweep Commands
Mastercam 2018 includes a new enhancement to both the Solid and Surface Primitives tools called Angular Sweep Control. It allows you to dynamically edit round object geometry while you are creating it.
Here’s a summary of how it works . . .
Let’s start by executing the Primitive Surface Cylinder command. After you set the Basepoint, Radius, and Height, the new Dynamic Arrow Controls appear on […]
SolidWorks 2018 Importing STL Files
Today we are going to give you some tips and tricks using SOLIDWORKS 2018 when importing STL format files. The STL format file, or “Stereolithography” format, was developed by 3D Systems, and has been around since 1987. In these past three decades, it has been widely used in rapid prototyping, as well as in the 3D Printing industry.
As for SOLIDWORKS, it has the […]