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Where Does Additive Manufacturing Make Sense?
3D printing’s earliest applications were for rapid prototyping. Additive manufacturing (AM) has advanced far beyond this with the maturation of various technologies and expansion of its materials envelope.
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How Does Heat Treating Affect Machining Considerations for a Metal 3D Printed Part?
This picture of part distortion in additive manufacturing illustrates the kind of effects that part design or machining stock allowances need to anticipate.
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Amnovis, BAAT Medical Collaborate on 3D Printed Medical Devices
Amnovis and BAAT Medical are focused on pushing the innovative edge of medical device OEMs to move faster through the development, validation and manufacturing stages.
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How An Airline Addressed Supply Chain Issues with 3D Printing
COVID-19 not only grounded most of Scandinavian Airlines’ (SAS) fleet in 2020, but also limited its access to engine covers critical for safe storage. CNE Engineering used BigRep machines to 3D print molds to produce the covers.
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HP, Legor Collaborate on Specialty Precious Metals for Jewelry Markets
The initial collaboration will focus on enabling the production of functional stainless steel accessories for the jewelry and fashion markets, while also implementing an R&D program to parameterize and characterize bronze and silver powders, and eventually gold powders.
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3D Printed End of Arm Tooling Aids Automation
Frustrations with traditional end of arm tooling led Richard Savage to start 3D printing custom versions for injection molding applications, eventually founding a company to fill this niche.
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AddUp Opens North American HQ, A Proving Ground for Metal AM
The company welcomed visitors June 22, 2022, to its Cincinnati-area facility, showcasing its laser powder bed fusion and directed energy deposition technologies.
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EOS M 290 Basic Training App for Faster, Extended Reality Education
The EOS M 290 Basic Training app gives trainees an immersive augmented reality experience, enabling users to become familiarized with the main system components and interact with a full-size model of the EOS M 290.
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3D Systems’ SLA 750 for Cost-Effective SLA Batch Part Production
Rapid + TCT 2022: The system features the SLA 750 and SLA 750 Dual — which the company says is the first synchronous, dual-laser stereolithography printer.
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AM 101: Additive Manufacturing Materials
In processes like machining, the material is a known quantity. A part starts as a block of material, or perhaps a forging or casting. Its form changes in the machining process, but its inherent material properties are already set. In additive manufacturing, however, the material properties are being established alongside the geometry of the part.
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