Functional Parts and Tools by Additive Fabrication – Direct Fabrication and...
Additive fabrication is a class of manufacturing procedures where a part is built by adding material layers upon one another. This process has been evolutionary in different manufacturing applications....
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Direct Additive Fabrication of Metal Parts and Injection Molds
There are many ways to apply direct additive fabrication of metal parts and injection molds which are as follows: Laser Sintering – used frequently to create today’s tools and metal parts. A supplier...
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Making Plastic Parts by Indirect Processes
When it comes to making plastic parts by using indirect processes, it can be done in various ways. Individual plastic parts or production runs of low quantity that is intended for functional usage may...
View ArticleWhat is Rapid Tooling
Much progress has been made with direct part fabrication. However, there are still really limited and slow processes with the fastest additive systems. They are incapable of producing parts in a wide...
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3D Printing Stores and Labs in Berlin
The idea of accessibility is being used in Berlin because it is believed that everyone should have the ability to become a maker and have access to 3D files, 3D printers, and 3D modeling software....
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Scanning Technologies at a Glance
There is a plethora of companies that currently manufacture 3D scanners and digitizers. This growing market produces instruments able to digitize objects microscopic in size to entire constructions...
View ArticleMetal Castings – Investment Castings
Additive technologies involve the use of injection molds which can produce components faster and at lower costs than the traditional use of subtractive technology. Additive technologies can be utilized...
View Article3D Scan Helped to Recreate the World of Star Wars
Photo scanning, also known as photogrammetry, is the process of capturing reality through the use of regular or 2D photos. Those photos are then used to create computer generated algorithms that in...
View ArticleAdditive Technologies in Injection Molds
Injection molds can be produced faster and at lower costs using additive technologies rather than subtractive technology. In addition, additively produced tools can be used to indicate the performance...
View ArticleScanning Cameras
In the forefront of recent cool technological advances, 3D printing has to be at the top of the list. The average person now had the ability to print just about anything, providing they have a 3D...
View ArticleWhat is the difference between an RP machine and a 3D printer?
In the past decade, we’ve come across some amazing discoveries and inventions in technology, which have allowed our society to create, test, and understand new methods of production. Arguably the...
View ArticleMedical Applications of Rapid Prototyping
There comes a time in humanity’s time-line, when a dent is created in the universe. This dent, allows us to live in excitement and curiosity of what the future will hold. In this time of our life, we...
View ArticleRapid Prototyping in the Fine Arts, Architecture, Jewelry and Industrial Design
The art that has lived through the centuries, that of Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Picasso, among others, is still loved because of the time it took to make, and the precision of the artists’ hand in...
View ArticleFavorite Applications of 3D Printing Technology
A multi-billion dollar industry was born at the turn of the 21st century when the process of 3D printing was introduced in the 1980s. In the past thirty eight years, a lot of changes have been done to...
View ArticleComparing Open-Source and Low-cost 3D Printers with Commercial Products
When the typewriter was introduced in 1868, it was to people what virtual reality is to us now. It was something people had never seen before, a new idea that added value and made things a little more...
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In Short: The 3D Printing Process
3D printing process is not a very complex process. In fact, all the different components and tools have already existed in the current manufacturing sector before. 3D printable models can be created...
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The Recycled Materials for 3D Printers
Despite the increase of materials used and the higher speeds available for 3D printers, there is not much data available on the usable recycling materials. According to a 2017 report by CNBC, nine...
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3D Printing Basics for Beginners
We all have been hearing about the amazing world of 3D printing and the storm in the form of revolutionizing the manufacturing sector. This very concept will turn the current manufacturing process of...
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What is Reverse engineering or back engineering?
Reverse engineering is the method by which an object that has been created using the human creativity gets deconstructed with the motive of revealing the designs, architecture or even the initial...
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Development of 3D Printing Technology
When we think about the 3D printing technology, most of us think of it as a recent development. Not many are aware of the fact that seeds of the technology were sown way back in the 1980’s. Then known...
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