Prototyping
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 More
Checking in with Additive Engineering Solutions
Partnerships continue to be critical to the success of the first commercial user of BAAM technology.
Read More
DMG 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 More
What the Toy Industry Can Teach Us About 3D Printing
Consumer 3D printing faces many of the same challenges as industrial additive manufacturing, and solving them means raising awareness.
Read More
Understanding AM Parts Design Will Lead to Mass Adoption of AM Technologies
Adoption of additive manufacturing technologies will pick up rapidly as companies begin to understand how to design parts according to the capability of additive machines.
Read More
Optimizing Metal Powders for Additive Manufacturing
What makes a good metal powder for additive manufacturing? Case study data highlights the value of particle size and shape, powder flowability, and bulk density.
Read More
Students Develop Design for Additive Manufacturing (DFAM) Worksheet for 3D Printing Success
A team of researchers at Purdue University developed and tested a DFAM worksheet to help novice and intermediate 3D printing users increase build success and minimize reprints.
Read More
3D 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 More
3D-Printed Tools Are in Production at Falcon Jet
High part variability and low volume make 3D-printed tooling the right fit for Falcon Jet components.
Read More
Impressions 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 More
