Nano Dimension Ltd. announced a collaboration with TTM Technologies, Inc. (“TTM”) to open its first AME NanoLab at TTM’s Advanced Manufacturing Center in Stafford Springs, CT. The AME NanoLab Network will enable customers and researchers to actively experience the AME workflow in two steps, from design to final prototype. This network of labs will allow […]
Rogers Corp launches Radix 3D Printable Dielectrics family of products
Rogers Corporation will be launching its Radix 3D Printable Dielectrics family of products at the IPC APEX EXPO 2022, January 25th through January 27st, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA. The IPC APEX EXPO is a leading event for the printed circuit board and electronics manufacturing and assembly industry, providing a […]
MakerBot offers new composites from LEHVOSS Group
MakerBot, a Stratasys company, is expanding its offering of advanced engineering materials for the MakerBot METHOD 3D printing platform with the addition of three new LUVOCOMs 3F materials from LEHVOSS Group, a leading provider of high-performance thermoplastics for industrial sectors. This brings the number of METHOD materials up to 30, giving customers an even wider […]
How the concept cars of tomorrow are made with 3D printing
Located in the heart of the UK’s auto industry, Vital Auto is an industrial design studio with expertise in automotive design. The company’s clientele includes many of the major automotive manufacturers, such as Volvo, Nissan, Lotus, McLaren, Geely, TATA, and more. “Clients typically come to us to try and push the boundaries of what’s possible […]
B9Creations launches medical-grade silicone resin
B9Creations launched an elastomeric resin called BioRes – Silicone. This new addition to its suite of biocompatible 3D printing materials enables custom medical and consumer tech applications for comfortable skin contact products, such as headphones, hearing aids, wristbands, attachments for wearables, silicone components for medical devices, and more. Offering a unique combination of biocompatibility, high […]
Innovating with additive manufacturing
The advantages of additive manufacturing (AM) best come in play when components are designed from the ground up specifically for this process. This fact is well-known. But how this aspect, combined with other optimization measures, can positively influence both the technical properties and the costs of the finished component, may come as a surprise to […]
What to look for in service providers to aerospace industry
Providing prototyping and production services for demanding industries, such as aerospace and defense, requires a bit more capability and attention to detail from service providers than with the usual customer. Such industries require that parts be 100% right, with zero defects, the first time, every time. To meet these demands, service providers often use a […]
3D printing makes it easy to develop tooling for production
Julliette Combe is a mechanical engineer. She began working on 3D printing during her master thesis on nano 3D printing. When she joined Formlabs, she first went into the business development team for product partnership and worked on custom products for key accounts. She moved into application engineering and has been there for the past […]
Virtual twins will drive the digital evolution of industrial
Rapid advancement towards digital transformation will position digital twins as crucial elements for businesses worldwide. By Saloni Walimbe, Global Market Insights Inc. The digital revolution is making its way across the industrial world at a breakneck pace. Various industrial sectors are adapting to this evolution by integrating key technologies like AI (artificial intelligence), VR (virtual…
Desktop Metal introduces DM HH stainless steel for the Production System
Desktop Metal announced it has released DM HH Stainless Steel (DM HH-SS), a custom stainless steel alloy that combines high strength and hardness with corrosion resistance, for additive manufacturing on the Production System platform. With the addition of this new alloy, the Production System can now print ten qualified metal materials. DM HH-SS is a […]
Latest updates to Siemens’ Simcenter 3D 2022.1
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced the latest update to Siemens’ Simcenter 3D software, part of Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio of software and services. Among the new capabilities, Simcenter 3D offers increased support for turbomachinery modeling, a dedicated drop test application for handheld devices, tightly integrated topology optimization with the NX Design environment, and a new acoustic […]
Velo3D qualifies superalloy for use in its Sapphire family of printers
Velo3D, Inc. has qualified the nickel-based superalloy powder Amperprint 0233 Haynes 282 for use in its Sapphire family of printers. The powder was produced by Höganäs AB—a world leader in metal powder production—under license from Haynes International, Inc., and is designed for high creep strength, thermal stability, weldability, and fabricability not commonly found in other […]
Formlabs introduces new 3D Printers and resins
At CES 2022, Formlabs, launched the Form 3+ and Form 3B+ printers, available and shipping globally today. These printers feature improved Low Force Stereolithography technology that was first introduced in 2019 with the Form 3 and Form 3B. These new iterations also feature enhanced hardware components and software updates that improve print speed, print quality […]
Ansys offers a way to protect your Christmas ornaments
By Spencer Crandall Around this time each year, families around the world gather to decorate their Christmas trees. Unfortunately, we’ve all lost an ornament to a clumsy family member, a domestic pet, or a sagging tree. In the spirit of protecting the sentimental ornaments in our lives, we’re going to use Ansys to discuss the […]
Iteratively create and 3D print lightweight structures
In the latest version of CoreTechnologie’s 4D_Additive software, the additive manufacturing tool now supports a new approach for the creation, optimization and validation of lattice structures. With the advanced lattice module lightweight structures can be created quickly and easily and then transferred directly to the calculation software for validation the new Nastran interface. With the […]
Desktop Metal qualifies commercially pure copper for its Production System
Desktop Metal announced it has qualified commercially pure copper (> 99.95% purity) for additive manufacturing on the Production System platform, and its Single Pass Jetting (SPJ) technology. Customers can now leverage SPJ technology for the production of high-performance copper parts at scale across a variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace, and electronics. With its excellent […]
The increasing relevance of smart data in 3D Printing
Today, 3D printing continues to transform factory floors as companies adopt 3D printing for large-scale production across multiple sites. Historically, a lot of 3D printing production happened in isolation – separated from the conventional manufacturing process. But as the walls between these two manufacturing environments disappear, these two eco-systems now start to connect and create […]
Andy Christensen receives the AMUG Innovators Award
The Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) announced Andy Christensen, previously founder and president of Medical Modeling Inc. and currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Cincinnati, as the recipient of its esteemed Innovators Award. AMUG bestows this award on those who have cultivated innovative ideas that have advanced the […]
3D scanning helps create one-of-a-kind prosthesis
With more than 185,000 lower limb amputations every year in the US alone, and over 1 million carried out worldwide, prosthetics specialists struggle to keep up with the rising demand for their services. The traditional method of creating prosthetic sockets, the part of the device that interfaces with the patient’s residual limb, involves plaster casting, […]
Using simulation to ensure multimode pacemakers synchronize communications
By Dixita Patel Recent advances for pacemaker technology include improved electronics and smaller batteries, making the development of leadless cardiac pacemakers (LCPs) possible. An LCP is a self-contained (capsule-like) generator and electrode system that eliminates the need for pocket or transvenous leads that often cause malfunctions. The current LCPs on the market pace at a […]
Designing out loud
Voice and haptic feedback could ease CAD complexity speed design but is slow-to-market due to that very CAD complexity. By Jean Thilmany, Senior Editor “Computer, draw me a circle.” You won’t be saying that to your computer-aided design system anytime soon. Even as Alexa and other speech-recognition systems have become ubiquitous over the past decade, […]
Remote collaboration smoothed the development of a new 3D printer
Taking its name from the popular Dutch drop licorice candy and 3D (ddd), dddrop B.V. has been introducing innovations in 3D printing systems since the company introduced its first 3D printer, the Recon, in 2012. The most recent 3D printer is the Rapid One Industrial 3D Printer, introduced in 2020. The company’s engineers, who used […]
3D printable bioresorbable material aids medical device designers
Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF), a pioneer in microscale 3D printing systems, and UK-based 3D printing materials company 4D Biomaterials announce the capability to print micro-scale geometries using 4Degra bioresorbable materials. This achievement marks the first time a bioresorbable material has been printed using micro 3D printing. It could affect the way implantable medical devices are […]
Materialise embeds native CAD workflows into Magics by integrating Siemens’ Parasolid Technology
Materialise has licensed Siemens’ Parasolid software for integration with Magics, the company’s industry-leading software for data and build preparation. With Parasolid technology, Materialise will add native CAD workflows within Magics 26, providing an additional toolset on top of mesh functionality. This combination will allow users to continue iterating CAD designs in Magics to prepare for […]
Stratasys adds Origin One dental 3D Printer to its portfolio
Stratasys Ltd. introduced the newest printer in the company’s growing portfolio of 3D printing solutions for the dental industry, the Stratasys Origin One Dental. The new printer is the second 3D printer resulting from Stratasys’ acquisition of Origin in December 2020, which was a key milestone in the company’s strategy to be the leader in […]