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Who has the best 3D printer?

May 1, 2012 By Leslie Langnau 1 Comment

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With nearly 50 3D printer systems to choose from, including jetting; lamination; electron beam melting or direct metal deposition; photo curing; and sintering, how do you narrow that down to the best 3D printer for your needs? Introduced in 2010, the … [Read more...] about Who has the best 3D printer?

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

Know your Intellectual property rights in 3D printing

April 29, 2012 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

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Intellectual property rights have been a much talked about subject in 3D printer and Additive Manufacturing circles. If you’re attending the RAPID 2012 show and conference this year, be sure to attend "Pathways to Innovation: Intellectual Property … [Read more...] about Know your Intellectual property rights in 3D printing

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

Stratasys Offers Complete Printing Packages for Dimension 3D Printers

April 24, 2012 By Leslie Langnau 1 Comment

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Looks like Stratasys (Nasdaq: SSYS) is going to make it easy to purchase complete packages of many of its 3D printers. The company already offers a complete printing package on the uPrint SE. It has now announced that it will offer bundled, complete … [Read more...] about Stratasys Offers Complete Printing Packages for Dimension 3D Printers

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

3D printed parts in screw threads

April 10, 2012 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

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Here are a few tips from Jay Beversdorf, Stratasys Inc., recently posted on his blogsite. Screw threads are one of the most common components used for fastening parts in an assembly or attaching pipe tubing together. Here are five ways to … [Read more...] about 3D printed parts in screw threads

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Additive Manufacturing, Aerospace, Architecture, Automotive, Consumer Products, Entertainment, FDM, Featured, Industrial, Medical, Rapid MFG, Rapid Prototyping Tagged With: 3D Printing, additive manufacturing, Fused deposition modeling, Stratasys

Scientists from Université Laval to push limits of 3D scanning

March 19, 2012 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Professor Denis Laurendeau, from the Electric Engineering and Computer Engineering Department, Universite Laval, Quebec City, and his team have launched the NSERC/Creaform Industrial Research Chair on 3D Scanning: CREATION-3D—an effort to … [Read more...] about Scientists from Université Laval to push limits of 3D scanning

Filed Under: 3D Scanners, Additive Manufacturing, Aerospace, Architecture, Automotive, Consumer Products, Entertainment, Industrial, Medical, News, Rapid Prototyping, Reverse Engineering Tagged With: 3D scanners, additive manufacturing, Creaform, Reverse Engineering

Architects impress clients thanks to 3D printer

March 19, 2012 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Rietveld Architects, a NY-based architecture firm known for its large-scale international projects, acquired an Objet 3D Printer and now creates architectural models in just a few hours - a fraction of the two-month turnaround time it required … [Read more...] about Architects impress clients thanks to 3D printer

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Additive Manufacturing, Architecture, News, Rapid Prototyping Tagged With: 3D Printing, additive manufacturing, Objet Geometries

Design tips for injection molding

March 11, 2012 By Leslie Langnau 3 Comments

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Follow these tips for injection molding to get better parts faster. It wasn’t so long ago that most injection molds had to be cut manually by machinists who worked directly from drawings. Then CAD and CNC came along, enabling milling work from … [Read more...] about Design tips for injection molding

Filed Under: Aerospace, Architecture, Automotive, Consumer Products, Entertainment, Featured, Industrial, Medical, Rapid Injection Molding Tagged With: injection molding, Proto Labs, rapid prototyping

The potential nightmare of “democratizing” 3D printing

March 8, 2012 By Leslie Langnau 7 Comments

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In the 3D printing world, we are in a period of thinking only good things about this technology. However, for many engineers, the idea of “democratizing” the design and manufacture of parts brings up nightmare scenarios. For example, let’s say an … [Read more...] about The potential nightmare of “democratizing” 3D printing

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Additive Manufacturing, Aerospace, Architecture, Automotive, Consumer Products, FDM, Featured, Industrial, Leslie's blog, Rapid MFG, Rapid Prototyping, SLA, SLS

What you need to know about color 3D printing

March 6, 2012 By Leslie Langnau 2 Comments

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As 3D printing technology evolves, chances are you will soon be considering whether you need a color or monochrome unit. Several color 3D printers are available but each uses different technology to deliver color. Here’s a closer look at the … [Read more...] about What you need to know about color 3D printing

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Additive Manufacturing, Aerospace, Architecture, Consumer Products, Entertainment, Featured, Industrial, Medical, Rapid Prototyping Tagged With: 3D Printing, 3D Systems, additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping, ZCorporation

Guest Blog: Powder vs. Plastic … Redux

February 28, 2012 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

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MakePartsFast.com will be posting guest blogs from those in the 3D printing/additive manufacturing industry; blogs with key points that inform and help you design, prototype, test, and make better use of this technology. This guest blog is from 3D … [Read more...] about Guest Blog: Powder vs. Plastic … Redux

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Additive Manufacturing, Architecture, Featured, Leslie's blog, Materials, Rapid Prototyping Tagged With: 3D Printing, 3D Systems, materials, rapid prototyping, ZCorporation

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