New Arburg Freeformer 300-3X system for industrial additive manufacturing
Groundbreaking world premieres and records at Formnext 2018 Three Freeformer exhibits were on show at Arburg‘s Formnext 2018 booth, along with more examples of functional parts made using the Arburg Plastic Freeforming (APF) process...
3D printing company sets up US headquarters in El Paso
The University of Texas at El Paso will serve as the North American base of operations for Aconity3D, one of the world's emerging technology leaders in the production of 3D printing equipment, under a...
Six-axis robot arm to create new 3D printed textures and patterns
Researchers from the University of West England’s Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR), located in Bristol, UK, are working with a six-axis Mitsubishi Electric MELFA RV-Series articulated arm industrial robot to create a novel...
It May Soon Be Easy And Practical To Use Metals With 3D Printing
In the last several years, 3D printing with plastics has advanced rapidly. Now, a team of researchers has shown that it may soon be as easy and practical to use metals with 3D printing.
Led...
3DGence F340, a PEEK 3D printing workhorse
The 3DGence INDUSTRY F340 is a dual nozzle industrial 3D printer suitable for working with a range of functional materials including the high-grade thermoplastic PEEK.
3D Printing Industry recently visited Poland to test the 3DGence...
Concrete 3D Printing Technology at CERL Prints Barracks
I was recently invited to the US Army’s Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) in Illinois to see a live demonstration of its Automated Construction of Expeditionary Structures (ACES)...
Stanford University Creates Better Cardiac Catheter Devices with 3D Printing
Stanford medical student Kevin Cyr is part of a team of researchers using 3D printing to build custom cardiac surgical devices.
Second-year medical student Kevin Cyr is part of a team of Stanford researchers investigating...
Are Smaller, Cheaper 3D Printers Better for Design?
Desktop 3D printing solutions provider Ultimaker makes the case that immediate access and low cost are the keys to getting more iterations into designers’ hands — and ultimately, yielding better designs.
We’re hearing a lot...
Marsha 3D Printed Cylinders The Future of Living on Mars
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In-Situ Resource Utilization
Martian exploration and settlement at any meaningful scale will depend on materials found on Mars. This is enabled by a technology known as in-situ resource utilization (ISRU). ISRU circumvents the limits...
Oligomers, the Foundation of Many 3D Printing Materials
Plastic 3D printing relies on light-sensitive materials that are cured or hardened when exposed to light. Whether that’s FDM, SLA, DLP, or other, newer technologies, these materials are the basis of the final objects...
