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Our CEO Wins the Distinguished INnovator Operators Award (DINO)

By |2023-04-13T08:11:13-04:00April 13th, 2023|Categories: News / Promos|

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 DINO Selection Committee reviews submitted nominations and the list of conference registrants to select no more than 10 [...]

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Lockheed Martin to Use Makerbot 3D Printers For Their Next Space Project

By |2023-04-05T08:19:27-04:00April 5th, 2023|Categories: 3D Printing / Additive Mfg, MakerBot|

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 [...]

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Metrology Minute – Control X Measure Menu

By |2023-04-04T09:42:23-04:00April 4th, 2023|Categories: Metrology Minute|

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 points. You just need to keep in mind that the distances are [...]

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Troubleshooting 3D Toolpath Jumping- Mastercam 2023

By |2023-04-03T14:37:09-04:00April 3rd, 2023|Categories: 2 Minute Tuesdays, CQTV, Mastercam 2023, Mastercam 2023 Video, Mastercam Video Series|Tags: |

  Troubleshooting 3D Toolpath Jumping - Mastercam 2023 In this week's 2 Minute Tuesday, we take a look at how to resolve a common issue that can arise when using 3D toolpaths; erratic jumping along the cut.

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3D Printing Surged 23% Last Year

By |2023-03-31T08:27:17-04:00March 31st, 2023|Categories: 3D Printing / Additive Mfg|

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 2022. The year-end spending on additive manufacturing hit $13.5 [...]

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Control X – Exploring the Measure Menu

By |2023-03-28T10:05:15-04:00March 27th, 2023|Categories: 2 Minute Tuesdays, 3D Scanning, 3d Scanning & Reverse Engineering, CQTV|

In this week's 2 Minute Tuesday, we delve into the Measure Menu of Geomagic’s Control X software, examining the features it offers. While most users of Control X are interested in producing color maps, whisker plots, dimension checks, and GD&T analyses 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. [...]

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Metal 3D Printing is Spicing Up Food & Beverage Equipment

By |2023-03-24T08:11:55-04:00March 24th, 2023|Categories: 3D Printing / Additive Mfg, Desktop Metal|

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 billion industry. If you’ve ever watched an episode of “How [...]

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