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Monday, December 29th, 2008
The future challenges for this technology (3d print, 3d-printing) are the following:
Working with new materials which characteristics are close to the "operational": see directly into the final material.
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Here's a little interlude technology article, just as many others, related to innovation technologies. The intangible first step is to deal with the re-materialization!
In my last visit to report of the Consumer Electronics Show 2009, I dedicated two pages to 3D printing solutions (pages 135 and 136 of PDF). I ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Basic process - Heat a thermoplastic material until it melts. Force it into a hollow (cooled) cavity under pressure to fill the mold. When cool remove the finished part.
Typical materials are,
nylon
styrene
ethylene
A typical injection moulding machine is seen below with the covers removed. Plastic pellets are poured in the hopper, and ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
The Ink Jet Printing technology is also sometimes called Ballistic Particle Manufacturing. Other systems providers use considerably different techniques, but they all rely on squirting a build material in a liquid or melted state which cools or otherwise hardens to form a solid on impact. One example of the technology variations available ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
3D Scanners Types
An Introduction
Simply put, 3D scanning is a fast and accurate method of putting physical measurements of an object onto the computer in an organized manner, resulting in what is commonly called 3D scan data. Typically, the 3D scan data is represented with a scale digital model or a ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
During the past years the demand for functional models and small series of production parts was constantly growing and Fused Deposition Modeling technology exceedingly matches all the present-day requirements. It is a tremendously successful technology.
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
When it came time for Joe Hebenstreit to buy a wedding ring for his wife-to-be, he stuck with what he knew. That didn't involve going to the neighborhood jewelry store or venturing into a Tiffany's. Instead, Hebenstreit simply designed the ring in CAD by himself and then printed out a ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
What is SLS? Rapid Prototyping refers to the creation of quick representations of final products from an initial idea and taking it through successive iterations until the final form is developed without tooling or molds. Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) is one of the most popular Rapid Prototyping mechanisms in which ...
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
For those wo are not familiar to the technology that this blog will cover upon here is a short introduction.
3D printing is a technology that uses special printers for solid object creation. How they work: The printers build each model layer by layer, starting at the base. For each iteration, ...
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