3D printing is an area of intense study where product design is concerned. We’re always hearing stories about how designers conceptualise products in CAD and bring them into the three-dimensional world with 3D printing. This is nothing new, but with technologies getting better and better, and designers finding more value
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We’re excited to announce we’ll be attending the TCT Show again this year. TCT takes place each year in Birmingham, and is the UK’s leading design to manufacturing event, showcasing the latest technologies, techniques and machines in the industry. Over the last 20 years, TCT Show has drawn massive crowds
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For over twenty years, 3D printing has shown exciting potential as a manufacturing process. In some industries, it has already started a revolution. But there has always been a material limitation. You see, most 3D printers print plastic. You can engineer plastics like PLA, PET, and ABS to demonstrate desirable
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One of the biggest limitations of FFF and SLA 3D printing is you can’t fabricate full-colour parts. You can only print mono parts, or parts in one colour. This is because in the case of fused filament fabrication, the printer extrudes a plastic from a reel. The reel is
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The Triceratops lived around 68 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period. It was herbivorous, around 12-tonnes in weight, and had one of the largest skulls of any dinosaur relative to its size with prominent horns and frills. It is thought these were used in combat, and perhaps in
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To say precision engineering concerns itself with the design of machines, fixtures, and other mechanical and electronic components would be a little basic. It’s just as much about understanding the cause-and-effect relationship between machine and use, and the development and refinement of structures to make them function optimally. This is
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Stereolithography (SLA) is one of the most mesmerising additive manufacturing processes. Instead of building up layers of plastic through extrusion (which is how fused filament fabrication works), SLA sees layers of liquid-resin cured solid with a laser. After each layer is printed, the printer’s tank moves to peel the newly
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Cities are becoming more congested, and more polluted. The onus is on corporations and governments to do their bit to tackle this. But people can help too, and electric vehicles (small ones, that is, not cars) are the perfect vessel for achieving this. Electric vehicles emit nothing, other than a
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An architect can find beauty in almost any structure. Whether it’s the intricacy of a structure or its functional quality, there is always something to admire. Tanya Eskander, a freelance architect working in London, uses her skills to design beautiful structures for clients around the world. She’s helped a wide
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Earlier this year in May, Markforged announced an all-new AI-powered platform for manufacturing and inspection systems. Blacksmith has been dubbed “an autopilot for manufacturing,” because it has a continuous feedback loop which means what comes out of a 3D printer is learnt from. “For the last hundred years, machines have
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