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6K Receives Innovation Grant for Battery Production
The state grant will fund the purchase of one new UniMelt system, a technology designed by 6K that will be used to produce metal powders used in AM and battery material production.
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Autodesk Fusion 360 Software Enables Generative Additive Manufacturing
IMTS 2022: This cloud-based 3D modeling, CAD, CAM, CAE and PCB software platform for product design and manufacturing is said to help users design, engineer and manufacture products to ensure aesthetics, form, fit and function.
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Velo3D Qualifies Copper Alloy for Use With Its Sapphire Printers
Velo3D has qualified the NASA-developed GRCop-42 alloy for use with its Sapphire family of printers to deliver the conductivity of copper with high strength for aerospace applications, such as rocket engine combustion chambers.
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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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Ultimaker Offers Metal Expansion Kit for 3D Printing
The kit was developed to remove existing process bottlenecks and limitations in printing metal parts, and is compatible with the Ultimaker S5 Platform.
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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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