Plastic grippers from a 3D printer and made with tribo-filaments from igus are 85% less expensive and 70% faster than others currently being used in the packaging industry. 3D printing allows for single batches to become a reality and enabled for … [Read more...]
Stratasys Expert Services Group to help enterprises build AM vision
Stratasys Inc. has introduced today for North America, its Expert Services Group, which was designed to help manufacturers build their additive manufacturing strategy and workflow, to gain the benefits of 3D printing for improved production … [Read more...]
3D printing benefits cast in iron
VHM Fonderie (formerly Heinrich Fonderie) specializes in the production of industrial iron castings using a traditional sand casting process. To help the company with the production of functional prototypes, master models for sand casting, … [Read more...]
Faster connections with Inspire 2015
Less is more. Especially when we’re talking the mass and weight of a part we’re designing. Those of us who have used previous versions of solidThinking’s Inspire software already know about its ability to reduce up to 45% of a part’s weight within a … [Read more...]
Electron Beam Melting: What Is It?
Electron beam melting (EBM) is a type of additive manufacturing technique that uses a cathode ray as its heat source. EBM is a proprietary powder bed fusion technique developed by Arcam. Metal powder is melted in a high vacuum, layer by layer until … [Read more...]
What is direct metal sintering?
Direct Metal Sintering is a name coined by 3D Systems to describe a process similar to Direct Metal Laser Sintering. 3D Systems’ printers, like other metal laser sintering printers, create pure, fully dense metal parts with EN ISO (fine) machining … [Read more...]
What is DMLS (Direct Metal Laser Sintering)?
Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) is an additive manufacturing process specifically using metals as the material. Most alloys can be used in the DMLS process but 17-4 Precipitation Hardened (PH) and 15-5 PH stainless steel are the most common. The … [Read more...]
What is Laser Sintering?
Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) is a type of additive manufacturing process that uses a laser as a thermal source for fusing ceramic, glass, plastic, metal powder and others into a 3-dimensional object. Many consider SLS to have the most diverse list … [Read more...]
What is a DLP 3D Printer?
A DLP 3D printer is used in the additive manufacturing process where objects are created by a 3D printer that uses a digital light projector (DLP) as the light source for curing photo-reactive polymers. There are advantages and disadvantages to a DLP … [Read more...]
What is FFF?
The term Fused Filament Fabrication or FFF was created by members of the Reprap project to avoid litigation over the previously trademarked term Fused Deposition Modeling coined by Stratasys, LTD. Both terms describe a nearly identical additive … [Read more...]
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