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April 2023
Concept 3D-Printed Sneaker Made of One-Piece Construction
(Article reprint from AdditiveManufacturing.com)
A new concept sneaker revealed at Paris Fashion Week makes use of 3D printed TPU not just for the sole, but the entire body of the shoe — a consolidation that hints at how additive manufacturing might further streamline footwear production in the future. The Reebok × Botter shoe was engineered with the HP 3D printing team based in Barcelona and manufactured using the latter’s Multi Jet Fusion technology.
Our CEO Wins the Distinguished INnovator Operators Award (DINO)
Congratulations to Rob Hassold, our CEO, for winning the DINO Award at AMUG2023
The DINO Award is AMUG’s most prestigious honor and is bestowed upon those with the highest levels of additive manufacturing expertise as well as a willingness to share that knowledge through contributions to AMUG, its members and the industry it represents.
Each year, the […]
Lockheed Martin to Use Makerbot 3D Printers For Their Next Space Project
Lockheed Martin Space uses METHOD X to create parts for the lunar rover project, enabling the engineers to design, develop, and test autonomous systems and processes
Lockheed Martin is a global aerospace and defense company, with the mission to connect, protect and explore. The company focuses on next-generation and generation-after-next technologies. In alliance with General Motors, Lockheed Martin is developing a new fully-autonomous lunar rover that could be used for NASA’s Artemis program. This is a […]
Metrology Minute – Control X Measure Menu
While most users of Control X are interested in producing color maps, whisker plots, dimension checks, and GD&T analysis of the scan as compared to the nominal CAD model, it is important to note that there are several “mesh-only” functions for measuring a scan model that do not require a nominal CAD model.
The Measure Distance menu simply measures the distance between two […]
March 2023
3D Printing Surged 23% Last Year
3D Printing has surged 23% in 2022 and is now a $13.5 billion industry.
(A reprint from DesignNews)
Photo courtesy of Design News.
The fourth quarter of 2022 capped a strong year for additive manufacturing markets, according to SmarTech Analysis. Even in the face of uncertain economic conditions, the growth rate for all 3D printing hardware, materials, software, and services expand by 23% in […]
Metal 3D Printing is Spicing Up Food & Beverage Equipment
Desktop Metal has compiled the top 5 reasons we see the food and beverage industry moving to metal 3D printing. While mentions of 3D printing for food may bring to mind chocolate extruded into cool decorative shapes, additive manufacturing is actually transforming the industry behind the scenes – making food and beverage processing equipment safer, more productive, and delivering all-new innovations to the nearly $60 […]