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July 2022
Make Your Life Easier with Mastercam 2023
Mastercam 2023 is full of new, useful tools that can make your day-to-day easier. Here are the top five you need to know.
Detecting Undercut Stock When Machining
In Mastercam 2023, achieving optimized motion is a matter of turning on a switch. The Dynamic OptiRough and Area Roughing toolpaths can now be aware of undercut stock conditions when rest machining. This results in improvements […]
3D Printing Provides New Options for Extol
Reprint from Additive Manufacturing
Manufacturing technology supplier Extol has always served customers who are producing polymer parts. Now, it’s making some of those parts in-house through 3D printing, providing new options ranging from functional prototyping into bridge production and beyond.
As the automakers centered in Detroit have been chasing electrification and faster, more agile product development, a manufacturer on the other side of the state of Michigan has felt a shift in the supply […]
Bridge Production Is Real Production
Reprint from Additive Manufacturing
The chance to launch a product into the world using additive manufacturing as the initial process delivers important new possibilities and even keeps on delivering advantages far into the product’s life.
We are watching additive manufacturing find its place as an accepted and established method for making production parts. What will be the ultimate extent of additive’s share of production? One way to think of this is as a percentage: […]
Common Mastercam Multiaxis Myths
Few techniques are more touted or more feared in the subtractive manufacturing industry as multiaxis machining. Sometimes it can seem like it’s best to leave multiaxis to the big players—international aerospace manufacturers and giant defense shops—because it seems like they’re the only ones equipped for it. But so many of the ideas that circulate about multiaxis machining are really myths. We are here to bust […]
NASA Sends Formlabs Parts to Space
Reprint from Digital Engineering 247
Parts will ride aboard the SpaceX Dragon Resupply Capsule.
Later in the summer of 2022, SpaceX will launch its 25th commercial resupply services (CRS-25) mission to the International Space Station (ISS). On board, the cargo capsule will be 4,500 pounds of food and equipment for the crew members on board the ISS. This mission is part of the ongoing cargo contract between SpaceX and NASA and involves collaboration and […]
Ultimaker 3D Printing Materials Promotion
From now until the end of October 2022 Ultimaker is running special promotions on their spools of filament. The more you spend, the more you save . . .
| Spend: | Receive: |
|---|---|
| $2,500 | Purchase HW + 6 spools of filament and get 50% off the filament. |
| $5,000 | Purchase HW + 12 spools of filament and get 50% off the filament |
| $10,000 | Purchase HW + 30 […] |