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3D Scanning: The Solution to Streamline Your Product Development Processes .

3D Scanning: The Solution to Streamline Your Product Development Processes All industries need to think ahead and build better products as fast as possible. On the other hand, they have to make sure the components are in conformity with the original design intent of high-quality standards to avoid any safety issues. We could divide the product development of a component in...

Scan to CAD an Essential Part of Product Development .

Scan to CAD an Essential Part of Product Development CAD software are key elements for companies’ Product Lifecycle Management to shorten time to market, get better product quality, and lower cost. Without them, product development would be a lot harder and processes longer. 3D scanning gives you the opportunity to generate an accurate CAD model fil...

Patient-Specific 3D Printed Models Help Plastic Surgeons Plan and Perform Rhinoplasty .

Patient-Specific 3D Printed Models Help Plastic Surgeons Plan and Perform Rhinoplasty While it is difficult to lose any part of your body, the psychological impact is devastating when it involves a part of the face, such as the nose. Just ask Dallan Jennet. Dallan’s face was disfigured at the age of 9 after he fell out of a tree onto a live power line, severely burning...

Innovation at the Intersection of Design, Technology and Medicine .

Innovation at the Intersection of Design, Technology and Medicine The voxel is a basic unit for 3D printing multiple materials. Similar to how pixels are organized on digital display screens, voxels can be placed in different patterns to control how a 3D printed object will behave. This level of control, alongside powerful data sets and innovative technology syste...

Stratasys Employee Perspectives: Materials Engineer Emily Hunt .

Stratasys Employee Perspectives: Materials Engineer Emily Hunt Emily Hunt is an Associate Additive Manufacturing Research Engineer who works to bring new 3D printing materials from ideation to creation. An avid problem solver that enjoys working with teams to overcome unique challenges, she attended school at the Michigan Technological University, obtaining her...

Tooling Design: Using FDM and Jigs and Fixtures for GrabCAD Print .

Tooling Design: Using FDM and Jigs and Fixtures for GrabCAD Print Tool design is a critical part of the manufacturing process, which if done incorrectly, can have major implications on the launch and success of a product. These tools can range from a simple drilling guide to a complex, multi-piece assembly fixture. Figure 1: The fixture helps align U-bolts so the....

Business Considerations For Production Tooling Conversion To Additive Manufacturing .

Business Considerations For Production Tooling Conversion To Additive Manufacturing When most people hear the word “tooling” they think of hammers, screwdrivers, and the other numerous items that can be found at your local hardware store. Manufacturing engineers; however, view tooling in a different light. For them, “tooling” is a family of aids used in the manufacturing an...

Hailey Dawson Learns About the Technology Behind Her Hand .

Hailey Dawson Learns About the Technology Behind Her Hand Hailey Dawson, the eight-year-old sensation from Nevada, is in many ways your typical third grader. She wants to be an actress when she grows up and enjoys swimming, drawing, and of course flossing (a popular new dance move). In other ways, Hailey is not your average third grader. Hailey has always....

Engineering with a Twist .

Engineering with a Twist How do you help customers understand what they are buying before they buy it? This is a problem that has presented itself to many entrepreneurs and business owners and one that most certainly has manifested itself many times over a summer at the Mr. Twisty ice cream shop on Ridgewood Road in West. S...

3D Printing Helps Shape the Development of the Blackstone Valley Education HUB .

3D Printing Helps Shape the Development of the Blackstone Valley Education HUB There are not enough skilled workers to meet the demands of Massachusetts’ Blackstone Valley region’s business community. Traditionally, community colleges and technical schools have answered this call by investing in programs that provide students with the technically-rich skill sets that emplo...

Revolutionizing the World of Orthotics One Child at a Time .

Revolutionizing the World of Orthotics One Child at a Time Andiamo’s 3D Printed Orthotics Faster production, enhanced comfort, lower costs and vastly improved patient experience and outcomes, are just some of the benefits 3D printing technology brings to orthotics. Andiamo is an organization pioneering this revolutionary approach to ensure that no child a...

3D Printed Prosthesis Do More than Lend a Helping Hand .

3D Printed Prosthesis Do More than Lend a Helping Hand It may not be long before we see the first major league baseball player playing with a 3D printed prosthetic. It may be Cruz Ramos, or maybe it will be Hailey Dawson who is using a 3D printed prosthetic hand to pursue her goal of throwing out the first pitch at every major league baseball stadium. 2...

3D Printing Medtech Startup Helps Surgeons Predict And Validate The Best Treatment For A Specific Patient .

3D Printing Medtech Startup Helps Surgeons Predict And Validate The Best Treatment For A Specific Patient As 3D printing of patient-specific models evolve as a standard of practice for pre-surgical planning of complex procedures, the face of the medical device industry is changing. One such entrant is Paris based, early stage medtech firm BIOMODEX who announced earlier this month that it added $15 milli...

Additive Manufacturing Education Is Helping To Bridge The Workforce Development Gap .

Additive Manufacturing Education Is Helping To Bridge The Workforce Development Gap Additive manufacturing has become a useful and important technology across many industries. Unfortunately, there is a widening gap between additive manufacturing (AM) technology and the number of workers who have the necessary skills needed to implement it. The workforce that is in place is quickly....

Innovations In Composite Materials Take Center Stage At SAMPE 2018 .

Innovations In Composite Materials Take Center Stage At SAMPE 2018 SAMPE’s 2018 spring technical conference and exhibition is right around the corner, taking place at the Long Beach Convention Center, in Long Beach, CA from May 21-24. Professionals from throughout the advanced materials and composites industry attend SAMPE’s conference to find new solutions, le...

3D Patient Specific Models Prove Integral to Life Saving Vascular Surgery .

3D Patient Specific Models Prove Integral to Life Saving Vascular Surgery Taking Complex Aortic Aneurysm Cases from Inoperative to Operable As an internationally recognized Center of Excellence when it comes to its Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, the University Hospital Mainz is applying 3D printing to transform the hospital’s surgical planning process for complex,...

The Rubik’s Cube Gets A Speedy Upgrade With 3D Printing .

The Rubik’s Cube Gets A Speedy Upgrade With 3D Printing Paul Sperling is a sophomore at Newberg High School in Newberg, Oregon, and his entry, the Circular Centerpiece 3 x 3, in the Engineering: Secondary Education category of the Extreme Redesign Challenge. His entry is a testament to his commitment to speed cubing, a game that brings competitors togeth...

3D Printing Lights the Way for a Sleek and Modern Table Lamp Design .

3D Printing Lights the Way for a Sleek and Modern Table Lamp Design The industrial design industry has rapidly changed over the last thirty years, going from CAD design and engineering to more holistic approach of an end-to end user centered experience. This user experience centered design, and lighting design specifically, is exactly what motivated Jade Akim, a stu...

The Center for Advanced Design Offers Insight into Professional Prototyping .

The Center for Advanced Design Offers Insight into Professional Prototyping Bringing ideas to life might be described as a journey, not a destination. Any engineer or designer who creates prototypes on a regular basis can attest to the truth in this commonly used mantra. And while the journey to end product can vary widely depending on the result you are looking to achieve,...

3D Printing Engages Young Engineers with NASA’s HUNCH .

3D Printing Engages Young Engineers with NASA’s HUNCH When NASA launched the HUNCH — High Schools United with NASA to Create Hardware — Programs almost 15 years ago, their main goal was to get students who had machining, welding, or other technical skills involved with NASA by helping to create full-size models of actual space station flight hardwa...

Surgical Planning with 3D Printed Hearts for Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion .

Surgical Planning with 3D Printed Hearts for Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion 3D printing is a powerful technology that continues to improve medical practice. Its impact on percutaneous left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion as an alternative therapeutic approach to medical therapy for stroke prevention continues to evolve as the technology advances. The left atrial appendage....

3D Printing Solutions For Advancing Dental Labs .

3D Printing Solutions For Advancing Dental Labs Although 3D printing has been around for more than three decades, it is fairly new to the dental industry. The field of 3D printing for dental applications is growing broader each year and could arguably be described as one of the most innovative aspects of the dental industry. The additive producti...

Unlimited Tomorrow Advances Prosthetics with 3D Printing .

Unlimited Tomorrow Advances Prosthetics with 3D Printing As many families and individuals have already realized, traditional prosthetic models are often very large and can be burdensome or inconvenient to use. They are also typically very expensive, with a per device price-tag in the tens of thousands of dollars, sometimes even more. Enter Easton LaChappe...

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How the Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge is Bringing Focus to Robotics Teams .

How the Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge is Bringing Focus to Robotics Teams Even just a decade ago, the word “STEAM” was associated more with saunas than with education. But today, STEAM education—which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics—is recognized as critically important in the education of today’s children. The U.S. Department ...

Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital Opens a 3D Printing Center of Excellence .

Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital Opens a 3D Printing Center of Excellence SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital, a non-profit 195-bed inpatient and outpatient pediatric medical center in St. Louis, Missouri, is partnering with Stratasys to create a new Center of Excellence (COE) with the goal of helping physicians and researchers advance the use of 3D printing...

3D Printing Automotive Innovations on Display at SEMA Show 2017 .

3D Printing Automotive Innovations on Display at SEMA Show 2017 The 2017 Specialty Equipment Market Association(SEMA) Show is kicking off next week in Las Vegas Nevada, and we are looking forward to attending and presenting at this annual trade show that brings the best and the brightest in the automotive industry together for education, exhibition, commerce and...

Nylon 12CF Endures the Ultimate Test of Strength in Thule’s Test Center .

Nylon 12CF Endures the Ultimate Test of Strength in Thule’s Test Center How do you go about incubating products for your brand that help your customers realize and experience their passion for life? That’s the question that Rob Humphries, a prototype engineer at Thule, a company that makes accessories for travel – things like bike racks, jogging strollers and luggag...

3D Printing is Helping to Standardize Surgical Training .

3D Printing is Helping to Standardize Surgical Training Traditionally surgical training has depended on the orderly exposure of the surgeons to graduated clinical experience in the operating room under the close supervision of senior surgeons. Such preceptor-apprenticeship on an operation table is the major bottleneck in training of congenital heart surg...