Rapid Prototyping
New 5-Axis CNC Machine at Clinkenbeard
April 24, 2013 3:02 pm | by Clinkenbeard | News | CommentsContinued growth at Clinkenbeard (Rockford, IL) has resulted in continued expansion with the addition of a new five-axis CNC machine to the company’s stable of CNC and milling machines. The new machine will feature an extra-large and expanded tool magazine for quicker throughput and added speed and efficiency as well as a higher speed control.
LISTED UNDER: 3D Printing Equipment | Rapid Manufacturing Equipment | Rapid Prototyping Equipment
Forget the Gym, Join a 3D Printing Factory
April 1, 2013 9:40 am | by David Mantey, Executive Editor, PD&D | Articles | Comments3D Creation Systems is an additive manufacturing facility that offers SLS, SLA, FDM, and composite technologies to members for as little as $2,500. The 3D Creation Systems concept is reminiscent of Tech Shop, another membership-based, do-it-yourself workshop.
LISTED UNDER: 3D Printing Equipment | Composites | Composites, Fabricators
Designers, Hackers, Healers, & Hustlers Tackle Employee Wellness in Innovation Challenge
March 11, 2013 2:01 pm | by Ryan Wynia, Founder|Design Visioneer, FIREBONE | Articles | CommentsThe innovators selected to participate in StartX MedIC were unbelievable individuals. The participants included physicians, surgeons, physicists, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, computer scientists, data scientists, computer programmers, industrial designers, interface designers, interaction designers, start-up founders, serial entrepreneurs, inventors, PhD students, medical students, and marketing executives from all types organizations and institutions.
LISTED UNDER: Prototypes, Engineering | Rapid Prototyping
3D Printed Cars Edge Closer to Production
March 6, 2013 12:15 pm | by Business Wire | Stratasys, Inc. | News | CommentsRedEye On Demand, a rapid prototyping and direct digital manufacturing service, and its parent company Stratasys, Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS) today announce a collaboration with KOR EcoLogic to produce URBEE 2, the first road-ready, fuel-efficient car built using 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, technologies.
LISTED UNDER: 3D Printing Equipment | 3D Scanning | Additives
Kickstarter of the Week: Desktop 3D Scanner Sets New Standard
February 22, 2013 2:14 pm | by David Mantey, Executive Editor, PD&D | Articles | CommentsIn 2011, two men set out to make desktop 3D scanning as easy as pushing of the button. With a bond formed through a shared interest in 3D modeling and image processing, the UK-based Alastair Buchanan and Tony Rhoades created a fully working prototype that became CADScan 3D, a desktop 3D scanner and software that creates a full 3D mesh for less than $1,000.
LISTED UNDER: 3D Printing Equipment | 3D Scanning | Plastic
Giving Away a $78 Million Ferry
February 6, 2013 12:28 pm | by Dan Joling, Associated Press | News | CommentsAn Alaska borough stuck with a $90,000 monthly bill for maintaining a ferry it can't use is offering the $78 million vessel free to any government entity — federal, state or local — that will have it.
LISTED UNDER: Materials and Prototyping | Prototyping/Rapid Mfg. | Prototypes, Engineering
Kickstarter of the Week: RoBo 3D Printer
February 1, 2013 11:08 am | by David Mantey, Executive Editor, PD&D | Articles | CommentsToday is the final day of funding for the RoBo 3D Printer on Kickstarter.com. RoBo is the latest low-cost, open source printer to be received with great fanfare on the crowd sourcing site, retaining the support of 1,100 backers and raising more than $590,000, blowing away the upstart’s $49,000 goal.
LISTED UNDER: Materials and Prototyping | Materials | 3D Printing EquipmentAn Engineer’s Greatest Design Challenges: Part 2
January 28, 2013 11:56 am | by David Mantey, Executive Editor, PD&D | News | CommentsIn late 2012, Product Design & Development (PD&D) conducted its annual Time-to-Market survey. Each year, the data is collected from hundreds of individuals to help gauge the ever-changing role of the design engineer in the marketplace. This is the second half of the two-part series.
LISTED UNDER: Materials and Prototyping | Prototypes, Engineering | Prototypes, Metal Fabrications
Wearable Stratasys and Materialise 3D Printed Pieces Hit Paris Fashion Week
January 22, 2013 12:38 pm | by PD&D Staff | News | CommentsDutch designer van Herpen’s eleven-piece collection featured two 3D printed ensembles, including an elaborate skirt and cape (top right) created in collaboration with artist, architect, designer, and professor Neri Oxman from MIT’s Media Lab, and 3D printed by Stratasys. An intricate dress (lower left) was also designed in collaboration with Austrian architect Julia Koerner, currently lecturer at UCLA Los Angeles, and 3D printed by Materialise, marking the second piece created together with Koerner and the ninth with Materialise.
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3D Printed Guns Misfire
January 21, 2013 3:43 pm | by Chris Fox, Associate Editor, PD&D | Blogs | CommentsThe question of gun control has long been a hotly debated issue. In the light of recent shootings, discussion of tighter control on firearms has escalated. All of the hot-button issues that coincide with guns and the second amendment have multiplied and created a partisan stoppage of dialogue about the issue.
LISTED UNDER: Rapid PrototypingLisa Harouni: A Primer on 3D Printing
December 11, 2012 10:54 am | by TED | Videos | Comments2012 may become known as the year of 3D printing, when this three-decade-old technology became accessible and even commonplace. Lisa Harouni, co-founder of Digital Forming, gives a useful primer on this fascinating way of making things - including intricate objects once impossible to create.
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Improved Process Stability and Reproducibility
December 3, 2012 11:58 am | by PD&D Staff | Eos Systems | Product Releases | CommentsEOS (Germany) has announced the FORMIGA P 110 successor model of the established plastic laser-sintering system FORMIGA P 100. The FORMIGA P 110 offers flexible, cost-effective, and highly productive entry into the world of laser- sintering.
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Virtual Prototyping Solution
August 11, 2009 10:35 am | National Instruments Corp. | Product Releases | CommentsNational Instruments and Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks announced their collaboration on a pioneer mechatronics tool that helps mechanical and control engineers work together to lower the cost and risk of motion system design.
LISTED UNDER: Prototypes, Engineering | Rapid PrototypingRapid Prototyping Capabilities Available
March 6, 2009 8:41 am | News | CommentsEOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems announces that Galloway Plastics (GPI) is using an EOSINT M 270 direct metal laser-sintering (DMLS) system as part of a larger business strategy to support the expansion of GPI Prototype and GPI Anatomicals.
LISTED UNDER: Rapid PrototypingRecord Revenue For 2008
March 4, 2009 7:19 am | News | CommentsAtlanta, GA - Quickparts announces record revenue for 2008. Founded in 1999, Quickparts has achieved record revenue every year since inception.
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