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3D printer for the “prosumer”

January 7, 2013 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

3D Systems unveiled  its CubeX® desktop 3D printer, with claims that it has  the largest print volume in its category and triple-color printing. It suits tech enthusiasts, serious hobbyists, educators and entrepreneurs. The CubeX offers an … [Read more...] about 3D printer for the “prosumer”

Filed Under: 3D Printers, News, Personal 3D printers Tagged With: 3D Systems

LUXeXceL Partners with FX64 Software Solutions for Optics Design Software

January 7, 2013 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

 LUXeXceL Group B.V., manufacturer of optics for the LED lighting industry, has partnered with FX64 Software Solutions of Arzberg, Germany for development of custom optics design tools to facilitate use of LUXeXceL’s patented Printoptical fabrication … [Read more...] about LUXeXceL Partners with FX64 Software Solutions for Optics Design Software

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Additive Manufacturing, Industrial, News Tagged With: LUXeXceL

3D Systems to acquire Geomagic

January 3, 2013 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

And the buying continues. 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Geomagic, Inc., a leading global provider of 3D authoring solutions including design, sculpt and scan software tools that are used to … [Read more...] about 3D Systems to acquire Geomagic

Filed Under: News

Bend Not Break – a new book by Geomagic CEO, Ping Fu

December 31, 2012 By Leslie Langnau 1 Comment

CEO and co-founder of Geomagic, Ping Fu, is releasing her “Bend Not Break” (Penguin). It is a story of personal resilience and of business success by someone who is almost an accidental entrepreneur. Ping Fu lived through Mao’s cultural … [Read more...] about Bend Not Break – a new book by Geomagic CEO, Ping Fu

Filed Under: 3D Scanners, News, Rapid Prototyping, Reverse Engineering

Ford Motor Co., exploring the usefulness of 3D printing

December 31, 2012 By Leslie Langnau 3 Comments

Ford Motor Company bought many of its engineers a MakerBot Thing-O-Matic. On the one hand, this is a great development, for the company and the engineers will discover just how useful 3D printing technology can be. On the other hand, a Thing-O-Matic? … [Read more...] about Ford Motor Co., exploring the usefulness of 3D printing

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Additive Manufacturing, Automotive, Featured, Leslie's blog, News, Personal 3D printers, SLA Tagged With: MakerBot

3D printing and micro manufacturing

December 27, 2012 By Leslie Langnau 1 Comment

Potomac Photonics, Lanham, MD, is a contract manufacturer of very small parts; the engineers there can help you prototype and produce parts as small as 1 to 2 microns. They have experience in applications in medical, biotech, electronics, aerospace, … [Read more...] about 3D printing and micro manufacturing

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Aerospace, CNC Milling Machines, Industrial, Medical, News, Rapid Prototyping Tagged With: Photomac Photonics

3D printers and Digital Rights Management

December 27, 2012 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

In my humble opinion, too many bloggers state that you can “simply print whole products” from your maker-style 3D printer. The video below takes a little too much license with such statements.  As an engineer who covers this industry, I know such … [Read more...] about 3D printers and Digital Rights Management

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Additive Manufacturing, Featured, Leslie's blog, News, Rapid Prototyping

Top 5 things you can learn from prototypes

December 19, 2012 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Quickparts recently interviewed three engineers from mechanical, electrical, and industrial fields and asked them what they learn from prototyping. From these interviews, Quickparts compiled the following list: 1) Prototypes test FIT AND … [Read more...] about Top 5 things you can learn from prototypes

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Aerospace, Architecture, Automotive, Consumer Products, Entertainment, Industrial, Medical, News, Rapid MFG, Rapid Prototyping, Reverse Engineering Tagged With: Quickparts

A brief review of the 3D printers of 2012

December 19, 2012 By Leslie Langnau 2 Comments

The avalanche of popular news stories has propelled 3D printing into the minds of consumers. However, the major manufacturers of 3D printers have released a number of systems for professional uses. Here’s a quick look at what became available this … [Read more...] about A brief review of the 3D printers of 2012

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Additive Manufacturing, Aerospace, Architecture, Automotive, Consumer Products, Entertainment, FDM, Featured, Industrial, Medical, News, Packaging, Rapid MFG, Rapid Prototyping, SLA, SLS

Choose from more than 1 million colors for your 3D printed parts

December 18, 2012 By Leslie Langnau 1 Comment

The two professional level 3D printers that build parts in color are the Zprinter from 3D Systems and the Iris from Mcor Technologies. Earlier this year, Mcor Technologies announced its Iris full color 3D printer at the Rapid show and recently at … [Read more...] about Choose from more than 1 million colors for your 3D printed parts

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Additive Manufacturing, Architecture, Entertainment, Featured, Industrial, Leslie's blog, News, Rapid Prototyping Tagged With: Mcor Technologies

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Leslie Langnau is the Managing Editor of the Design World Network. She also has more than 20 years experience as a technology editor, covering such areas as controls, mechanics, mechatronics, couplings, industrial networks, and the field now known as additive manufacturing (formerly rapid prototyping).

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