Solido Goes Sub 10K

One by one it seems the barriers to 3D printing continue to fall.
New Product Announcements Published: 11/5/2009

Quick Takes on Quality

Need to assure the quality of your parts as you develop them?
New Product Announcements Published: 10/29/2009

Making A Model City

Although there have been some pretty big additive modeling projects done, consider this: 400 city blocks and 1,000 buildings of four-square miles of downtown Chicago.
New Product Announcements Published: 10/29/2009

Faster Complex Metal Parts

3D Systems Corp. is getting into the aluminum and stainless steel parts business—not by launching a new machine to churn them out—but by acquiring a new technology to produce on-demand complex geometry metal parts via an online portal.
New Product Announcements Published: 7/1/2009

Strong, Lightweight Thermoplastic Now for FDM

ULTEM 9085 from SABIC Innovative Plastics is a high-performance thermoplastic that was developed, in large part, for the aerospace industry, and has been certified for use in and on commercial aircraft. It is strong, light, heat resistant up to 320...
New Product Announcements Published: 7/1/2009

Getting Small Now

Even though it produces hard plastic parts and not ink on parchment, the V-Flash Desktop Modeler from 3D Systems operates at about 60 decibels, only slightly louder than ambient noise of a typical ink jet machine.   And yes, with a 26 x 27 in.
New Product Announcements Published: 6/29/2009

A One-Step Skin

Priming, wet sanding and adding a release agent is a traditional three-step finishing process for freshly created parts and molds.   QuickSkin, a new coating formula from Zyvax (
New Product Announcements Published: 5/4/2009

Faster: When More is More

When engineering composite parts, sometimes more is more.   Not (necessarily) more materials, but more analysis.   That is, the more iterations, the more optimized the design.
New Product Announcements Published: 5/4/2009

Rapid Manufacturing Helps NASA Move to Digital Inspection

While it might not qualify as a
New Product Announcements Published: 4/9/2009

Huntsman Goes From Materials ... to Machine

Micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) technology is at the heart of a new rapid manufacturing system being launched by Huntsman Advanced Materials – that’s right, the company that has long been a provider of materials for rapid prototyping appli...
New Product Announcements Published: 3/26/2009