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October 2015
Stratasys Highlighted Additive Manufacturing at Composites Europe
Composites Europe, which took place in September 2015 in Stuttgart, Germany, saw 3D printing provider, Stratasys, demonstrated how its additive manufacturing technology is transforming the face of manufacturing within the aerospace and automotive sectors. Showcasing a spectrum of prototype and production-parts, Stratasys invited visitors to witness how its engineered plastics are meeting the demand for lightweight parts with enhanced functionality across a multitude of […]
Micro-Structures to Control Elasticity in 3D Printing
Using a new method developed by Disney Research, a 3D-printed teddy bear can have a stiff head, a flexible tummy and bendable arms, even though all of it is made of the same relatively stiff material.
By using a printer to alter the small-scale structure of the material, the Disney researchers showed they could vary its elasticity dramatically. They developed families of compatible micro-structures with varying elastic properties, […]
Mastercam X9 Mill-Turn Improvements
Here are a few of the improvements to the Mastercam Mill-Turn product for X9:
TNRC Control for B-Axis Turning – The Tool Angle dialog box now contains some new options. They tell Mastercam which quadrant you touched off your tool in. When setting up B-axis head machines, you can touch a tool off in several ways. If you are creating a […]
New Mastercam Multiaxis Functionality
Mastercam X9 continues to build upon its powerful Multiaxis functionality. Program your multiaxis equipment with confidence and ease using the new Multiaxis Link operation. Multiaxis link ensures reposition moves between 2- through 5-axis operations are safe and collision-free. Multiaxis link is an operation that takes a list of toolpath operations and a safety zone shape as input. The safety zone can be represented with […]
Student 3D Prints Life-changing Baby Bottle for Preemies
Ravid Koriat, a recent graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, used personal inspiration for her final project in Industrial Design. A conversation with her sister-in-law about the challenges of nursing and pumping “mother’s milk” prompted Koriat to design a new style of feeding system, the FEEDER, specifically for newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). To improve the system for breast milk collection, storage and delivery, Koriat developed accurate […]
September 2015
Additively Manufactured Fine Glass
Reposted from http://www.economist.com/
GLASSMAKING began 4,500 years ago, in Mesopotamia. The industry’s first products were trinkets, such as beads and pendants, cast from moulds and carved by hand. But craftsmen quickly worked out how to make more practical stuff, such as jugs, bottles and drinking vessels, by coiling strands of molten glass around a sand or clay core of appropriate shape, which could then be shaken or scraped out after the glass had cooled.