Design
Trinkle Additive App Suite Features Collection of Accessible, Intuitive Design Apps
Formnext 2024: The Additive App Suite builds on the success of the company’s fixturemate — a user-friendly design app for creating fixtures. The software includes three new apps with more to come.
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Video: AM for Product Development at Pella Corporation
Speed to market is a critical advantage 3D printing can enable. For its new product innovations, Pella iterates quickly using prototypes and tooling produced via AM.
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3D Printing Enables a Larger "Sweet Spot" Relative to This Golf Club's Size: The Cool Parts Show #77
Cobra Puma Golf's Limit3D iron uses 3D printed stainless lattices to remove weight from the interior so that it can be reintroduced with tungsten inserts that lower the center of gravity. The combination offers a smaller, sleeker club head with the forgiveness of a larger one.
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Bike Manufacturer Uses Additive Manufacturing to Create Lighter, More Complex, Customized Parts
Titanium bike frame manufacturer Hanglun Technology mixes precision casting with 3D printing to create bikes that offer increased speed and reduced turbulence during long-distance rides, offering a smoother, faster and more efficient cycling experience.
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3D Printing Solutions to Support Investment, Sand Casting
3D Systems is highlighting a design strategy for better investment casting patterns, as well as a new machine suitable for the production of patterns for sand casting.
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Preassembled Turbojet Engine, 3D Printed in One Build: The Cool Parts Show #75
Turbojet engines typically consist of hundreds or thousands of parts, but this engine — 2023 winner of The Cool Parts Showcase for Best Proof of Concept — was 3D printed as just two pieces, with the monolithic rotor embedded inside the stationary engine shell.
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Nikon Corp. Opens California Technology Center to Provide Customer Support
The center offers a variety of solutions and services aimed at accelerating customer adoption, scaling and supply chain in metal additive manufacturing.
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Fizik Utilizes Carbon DLS Technology for One-to-One Program, Creating Customized Bike Saddles
Fizik’s customized bike seat program uses Carbon’s Digital Light Synthesis technology and personalized rider data to create a line of truly custom saddles, giving bike riders the best bike seat for their posterior — only made possible through additive manufacturing.
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CoreTechnologie Optimizes AI-Supported 3D Nesting Software for Higher Efficiency
The new version of the universal 3D printing software 4D_Additive 1.6 features an AI-supported nesting technology, which enables an average 30% increase in efficiency when operating SLS and MJF printers compared to the previous version and other common nesting tools.
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Ohio-Based Startup Rebrands as Vixiv
The beta version of the company’s software addresses only weight reduction applications, while future versions will address other design goals.
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