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Dental Lab Brings 3D Printing into Digital Dentistry Workflow
With 3D scan technology and resin-based 3D printers, Spectrum Dental Printing is changing the way dental devices are made — and potentially, how dentistry happens.
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How Additive Manufacturing Is Expanding the Possibilities for Plastics
In terms of lead time, part size, quantity and inventory needs, the limitations on plastics are being overcome. We will see plastics doing more — the theme of several recent articles we’ve posted.
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Production 3D Printing With Roots in Materials Development: The Origin Story
Production-oriented polymer AM machine uses the same platform with the same range of controls originally conceived for material development.
Read MoreHigh-Power UV-LED Illuminators Aid 3D Printing
Innovations in Optics Inc. can pair high-power UV-LED Illuminators with precision driver/controllers for Digital Light Processing (DLP) applications in 3D printing and maskless photolithography.
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Watch: Freeform Injection Molding (FIM) Demonstration
Alba Enterprises demonstrates Addifab's Freeform Injection Molding (FIM) process using 3D printed mold inserts at Amerimold 2019.
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AM 101: Selective Thermoplastic Electrophotographic Process (STEP)
Learn about Selective Thermoplastic Electrophotographic Process (STEP): how it works, the comparative benefits and where it is leading additive production in the future.
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Fitz Frames Brings Mass Customization to Eyewear with Affordable 3D Printed Glasses Frames
Glasses don’t need to be ill-fitting and frustrating to buy. Fitz Frames offers a different kind of shopping experience (using augmented reality and 3D measurement) to produce custom glasses with 3D printed frames that are affordable, durable, comfortable and stylish.
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Igus High Performance Polymers Ensure Wear Resistance
Formnext 2019: Igus’ offered material range includes special filaments for 3D printing with the fused deposition modeling/fused filament fabrication method (FDM/FFF) and polymers for selective laser sintering (SLS).
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Large-Scale Thermoset Composite AM System Launched
The Reactive Additive Manufacturing (RAM) system is said to be the world’s first large-scale additive manufacturing system compatible with thermoset resins.
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University of Maine Composites Center's 3D Printer Named World's Largest
The university now holds world records for the largest prototype polymer 3D printer, largest solid 3D-printed object and largest 3D-printed boat.
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