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January 2021
New Partnership with MakerBot
We are proud to announce a partnership with MakerBot. Founded in 2009, MakerBot brought one of the first mass-produced and readily available 3D printers to the market which earned their acquisition from Stratasys®, a leader in industrial FDM 3D printing.
In recent years, MakerBot as a company has completely transformed their business with a new focus on the B2B market. This becomes apparent when you see […]
New Dates for Xpand3D Manufacturing and Design Event
The xpand3D event will take place virtually April 20 & 21
We decided to push this virtual event off by a couple of months. We have been busy gathering content and we know that the further we push it off, the more great content we will be able to provide. Also, given the fact that Covid is going to prevent the previously scheduled spring in-person trade […]
The Importance of Scan Alignment to Nominal CAD Model for Inspection
While many tend to use Best Fit alignments for inspection, the truth is that the alignment method may not provide the most accurate inspection results. When using a Best Fit alignment process, you are relying on the inspection software to understand the design intent and align the scan of the manufactured part properly to the nominal CAD model. If datums aren’t provided to use for alignment by the inspection drawing or PMI model, you would […]
ZEISS 3D Printing Precision Parts for Serial Production
For Carl Zeiss Optical Components, a subsidiary of Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH, precision matters – sometimes down to the hundredth of a millimeter. The company manufactures microscopes, multi-sensoric machines, and optical sensors for industrial measurement and quality assurance purposes.
Organizations around the world use ZEISS machines to confirm that they produce literally perfect results, every time. That means ‘reliability’ and ‘repeatability’ are words to live by at the Wangen, Germany-based company.
“The machines we produce are […]
December 2020
Reverse Engineering a Fishing Reel to Improve Ergonomics
Let’s take a look at how reverse engineering can be used to improve ergonomics in product design. There are times when you may have the need to improve a design, but the legacy files are not available. In this case, your best option is to scan the old part and reverse engineer the CAD file. Once you have a feature-based CAD file, you can […]
How to Orient a 3D Scan for Machining
In this blog post, we’ll take a look at a scanned part in Geomagic Wrap and show how we can correct its orientation to prepare it for CNC machining. Very often, when we scan parts their orientation is not necessarily known. It could be skewed off plane relative to the angle that the scanner was used when the scans were taken.
By cycling […]