Engineers trying to keep track of the ever-ballooning number of materials and machines for additive manufacturing (AM) and 3D printing (3DP) now have some relief. The free, searchable Senvol Database has data on more than 350 machines and 450 different…
Recently, (there has been) reported many advancements around 3D printing in medical care for humans; however, humans are not the only ones that can directly benefit by the advancement of 3D printing technology. 3D Systems has worked together with the…
When Pratt & Whitney began working with additive manufacturing (AM) in the late 1980s, the future seemed to be in plastics. Today the technology popularly known as 3D printing is more sophisticated, and we are doing things with nickel and…
The long term dream for 3D printing is fully distributed and democratised manufacturing, as opposed to the current dominant model of centralized production. Long before that happens, though, it will be the current manufacturing industry that will evolve into something…
GE has already made enormous strides in industrial 3D printing by opening a mass additive manufacturing facility to produce the 3D printed fuel nozzles for its advanced LEAP jet engines. Competing with GE, and reinforcing the global industrial 3D printing…
Product designers who are working with 3D printing design, development, and manufacturing also should take heed. Design the way you’ve always designed, and you won’t get anything out of 3D printing that’s different from what you’ve always gotten before 3D…
itSeez3D, a leading developer of mobile scanning software, has developed an update to its 3D scanner application. Designed to work with the world’s first 3D sensor for mobile devices, Occipital Structure Sensor, itSeez3D now allows the iPad to create realistic…
Stratasys Ltd., a leading global provider of 3D printing and additive manufacturing solutions, introduced new colors for its ASA thermoplastic and expanded its Digital Materials. Launched in September, ASA is an all-purpose FDM material used for the production of prototypes, manufacturing tools and…
Investigators at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have made a medical breakthrough using 3D printing on a MakerBot® Replicator® 2X Experimental 3D Printer to create cartilage designed for tracheal repair or replacement. Mr. Todd Goldstein, a PhD candidate at…
Engineers of low-end embedded products may now have an easier way to make aesthetically pleasing displays with scalable typefaces. Using a new software platform called Monotype Spark, small displays can now have high-quality scalable type and world language support without…