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March 2014
Specialized Multiaxis Programming for Multi-bladed Parts
Traditionally, one of the most complex 5-axis challenges is generating toolpaths for impellers, fans, and marine screws. These parts are widely used in power generation, energy transfer, and propulsion.
Blade Expert is a powerful, easy-to-use custom application designed to generate efficient, smooth, and gouge-free toolpaths for these complex parts. It minimizes unnecessary motion at the machine, delivering a highly efficient toolpath with superior finish quality.
Multi-bladed parts come in many configurations, but Blade Expert’s common sense operation […]
Tales from the Shop: Gentlemen Start Your Engines
Reprinted from the Mastercam Blog
An ongoing series from the Mastercam R&D machine shop.
One of our Applications Engineers has been working on a reverse engineering project. He’s making a Turbo Elbow for a twin turbo V8 Monte Carlo with Mastercam and Verisurf.
The part was originally pie-cut sections of stainless steel tubing welded together, […]
Stratasys Gets Tough with Nylon 12
Reprinted from the Stratsys Blog:
Tough and flexible bender bar created with FDM Nylon 12 material on the Fortus 3D Production System
A new nylon material with the specs to be the toughest in additive manufacturing is a strong reason to take notice.
Stratasys chose EuroMold 2013 to launch FDM Nylon 12 for Fortus 3D Production Systems.
Designed to optimize strength and toughness while reducing the […]
A Handheld 3D Scanner Turning Heads at the Trade Shows
Columbus, Ohio-based company, Knockout Concepts, is developing a mobile 3D Scanner. Their objective is to create the mobile 3D Scanner that can go wherever you go and capture whatever what you see. The 3D Scanner is a first-of-its-kind unit which contains an integrated depth sensor from Primesense, the same technology used in 3D Systems’ own scanning device. As it happens, Knockout used a rapid prototyped version to present at Maker Faire, turning more […]
December 2013
3D Printed Injection Molds Demo at EuroMold 2013
At EuroMold 2013, Stratasys once again demonstrated the value of 3D printed injection molding. Watch the exciting booth demo here in either English or German, hosted by Michael Anton, Senior Pre-Sales and Application Engineer, Stratasys.