3D Printing / Additive Mfg

Acclaimed artist and designer Daniel Widrig is collaborating with Stratasys to create a futuristic 3D printed art collection. The collection, entitled Descendants, was unveiled at the ‘GLOBALE: Exo-Evolution’ exhibition, which was held at ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany. DESCENDANTS by Daniel Widrig in collaboration with Stratasys produced using Stratasys’ PolyJet 3D printing technology. Size: 1751 x 452 x 292mm (Female), 1848 x 627 x 342mm (Male). Photo credit: Yoram Reshef Exploring [...]

Included with the Fortus Line of Stratasys printers, Insight software gives you more power and customization over your projects. Insight controls the Fortus FDM printers from Stratasys. This includes the Fortus 250 as well as the 380mc, 450mc and 900mc Production Systems. Like Catalyst (the software that controls the uPrint and Dimension line of FDM printers), Insight will run in default mode for easy operation. We call this Green Flagging. However, Insight also has the [...]

CPI Aero is a Cimquest customer that manufactures aircraft assemblies. They started doing military work directly for the government, built a good reputation for themselves, and now they have recently branched off into commercial work. Daniel Gray, their program engineer, explains how 3D printing cut their lead time on most projects from months to hours. They can now take a complicated contour surface from the computer screen and bring it right into their hands in a [...]

Five-year-old Mia Gonzalez has always suffered from breathing issues which limited her ability to function as a normal child. Doctors discovered a rare heart malformation known as double aortic arch. The condition causes restricted airflow due to the entanglement of an extra vascular ring around either the trachea or the esophagus. Often misdiagnosed as asthma, this serious condition requires a complex surgical procedure. Dr. Redmond Burke, Director of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, [...]

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 aerospace and automotive applications. Recent Stratasys customer announcements highlighting these financial and [...]

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 [...]

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. Since [...]