Video: Offline Verification for Five-Axis Hybrid Manufacturing
Simulation that models the system for machining can also be applied to AM, as well as to a system combining additive and subtractive with intricate machine moves.
Read MoreDMG MORI to Introduce Its SLM System to North America in November
The company now offers both powder-bed and direct-deposition AM. Its president anticipates widespread use of metal AM within 10 years.
Read More3D Systems CEO: Speed Is the Enabler to Production
Speed will change things, says Joshi. When we imagine that additive doesn’t have a role in high-volume production, we have failed to account for all the ways that faster 3D printing affects the economics.
Read MoreImpressions of Rapid + TCT 2017
Low-cost metal machines were the prominent new introduction to a show that has perhaps completed its transformation into an industrial manufacturing event
Read MoreTooling Is the Underappreciated AM Application
One of the significant impacts of industrial 3D printing will be its aid to conventional production.
Read MoreThe Promise of Lower-Cost Metal 3D Printing: 3 Views
Representatives of companies using the new Desktop Metal system—Caterpillar, Jabil and Lowes—describe their expected applications for this capability.
Read MoreOhio Business Sees Big Possibilities in BAAM for Tooling
A new startup built around a large-scale 3D printer aims to offer short lead times for large industrial tools.
Read MoreSix Additional Advantages of the Desktop Metal Systems
Beyond the accessibility and simplicity, the new metal 3D printing technology delivers other significant benefits as well. One example: Remove support structures by hand rather than machining them.
Read MoreFFF 3D Printing for Metal: Sintering Can Wait
Separating 3D printing from high-temperature processing is part of how the Markforged Metal X realizes a price less than established metal AM equipment.
Read MoreVideo: 3D-Printed Excavator at ConExpo
The cab, arm and heat exchanger were all 3D printed on the first excavator to feature major components produced additively.
Read MoreAt Rapid: A 73-Year-Old Machine Shop’s Journey into Metal AM
Imperial Machine & Tool Co. presents at Rapid 2017 about incorporating metal additive manufacturing into a traditional machine shop environment.
Read MoreGE Team Secretly Printed a Helicopter Engine, Replacing 900 Parts with 16
GE Additive’s Ehteshami says, “To make these parts the ordinary way, you typically need 10 to 15 suppliers, you have tolerances, you have nuts, bolts, welds and braces.” With additive, “all of that went away.” The helicopter project is a detail in a story worth knowing.
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