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- AM Offers DIY Potential for Consumer Products
- Exotic forms and one-of-a-kind products are made possible with
additive manufacturing.
Article Published: 4/21/2011
- Engineering for Uncompromised Performance
- At Callaway, they’re taking things a step further. They’re using an even lighter, stronger material: “Forged Composite.”
Article Published: 4/21/2011
- Advances in Materials
- Here are some new materials that you should know about.
Article Published: 4/21/2011
- Plastics Make Progress
- Objet Geometries has developed a range of new materials for use in its 3D printers. Among the latest:VeroWhitePlus: It’s Objet’s VeroGray material, except in white.
Article Published: 3/16/2011
- Quickparts Now Offers Somos NeXt
- Quickparts (www.quickparts.com) is now offering the durable Somos NeXt material in its rapid prototyping services.
Article Published: 8/23/2010
- Fast via Machining and Molding
- Thanks to a cluster of processors running a home-grown algorithm and lean manufacturing shops in the U.S., Japan and Europe, Proto Labs can deliver machined or molded parts in as little as a day.
Article Published: 9/1/2009
- Spinning Quality, Design and Simulation Tools for Faster Wind Turbine Parts
- Measuring quality in real-time while reducing the development cycle are both critical to producing the next generation of wind turbines and the components that run them.
Article Published: 9/1/2009
- 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.
Article Published: 7/1/2009
- User-Driven Development at NuStep
- NuStep listened to the user—who may be a stroke victim or in cardiac rehab--when developing its the latest generation low-impact cross-trainer, the T5. What they discovered resulted in a better product.
Article Published: 7/1/2009
- Rapid Tooling: Faster, Better, and Less Expensive
- Don’t think of rapid tooling purely for prototyping or short runs. Additive tech is making it possible to produce steel tools that have decided benefits for injection molding and die casting.
Article Published: 7/1/2009
