Formlabs have taken the wrapping off a few new (and exciting) products last week: Elastic Resin, which is the softest and most pliable resin in their engineering range, and Digital Dentures, which is the first truly accessible 3D printing denture solution comprising two new materials called Denture Base Resin and
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Most traditional manufacturing techniques are subtractive technologies. You start with a block of material and carve parts away until you get the part you want. 3D printing is an additive technology. You start with nothing and then add material on top of itself to create the desired model. It makes
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Sports is an area where 3D printing has huge potential. From 3D printed gum shields for boxers and rugby players to 3D printed studs for footballers, there are a wide range of potential applications. Athletics 3D, a French company, specialise in making such equipment with one of their more recent
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NASA may not have done much to accelerate the progress of space exploration since Apollo 17, but there are private companies doing their bit to hop us onto the next stage – Mars. Everyone’s a way off it yet, but in the next half decade it’s thought we’ll all know
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Markforged has today released H13 Tool Steel out of beta, making the material available for use with the Metal X 3D printer. H13 Tool Steel is an air hardening chromium-molybdenum hot work steel. It resists thermal fatigue cracking and is used in a wide range of applications. Typical applications include
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MakerBot has announced an all-new 3D printer today. The MakerBot Method is their best 3D printer yet – an industrial-grade 3D printer that fits on a desktop. It “bridges the gap” between desktop and industrial 3D printing with a suite of features that are normally only found on industrial 3D
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Without stock-feeding capabilities, CNC lathes cannot automate part production. The solution is bar pullers, which advance parts along the production line. The way it works is simple. The puller presses onto the remaining stock after the part is finished and a powered chuck moves it along. The chuck is then
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Formlabs is at the cutting edge of stereolithography, with their suite of resins being as expertly engineered as the hardware that prints them. Their latest resin is a reformulation of an existing one, High Temp v2. High Temp v2 is an updated version of High Temp v1, reformulated to be
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You know what the most frustrating thing about printing with an FDM or FFF 3D printer is? Layer lines. Well, really obvious ones that is. They stick out like a sore thumb and give the manufacturing method away at a mere glance. Layer lines are also very difficult to smooth
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Gillette is offering the best 3D printed shaving handles a man can get thanks to a partnership with Formlabs. Customers are able to create, customise and send to manufacture their own shaving handle designs which are then 3D printed at a production facility in Boston using the Form 2. For
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