By Spectrum Filaments Ecology has been an important trend at the consumer and industrial level for several years. Every year the world is flooded with tons of plastic, the vast majority of which will remain with us forever. This problem…
Spectrum Filaments presents 8 new technical materials – Kevlar and Teflon composites as well as high-temperature and solvent-resistant engineering materials
By Spectrum Filaments Spectrum Filaments – one of the largest European materials manufacturers for 3D printing in FDM / FFF technology, will present a range of 8 new technical materials at the Formnext 2022 fair in Frankfurt am Main. Among…
How a Dental Lab is Shaking Up CT Scanning
It may seem unexpected for breakthroughs in CT scanning technology to come from a dental laboratory. But foresight is exactly what California-based Glidewell dental lab is known for. In a manufacturing field that requires as much volume as it does…
3D Print metal on a sample scale with The Virtual Foundry’s Filamet Evaluation Kit
This week, The Virtual Foundry (TVF) is announcing an interesting new product, an FFF Metal 3D Printing Evaluation Kit. The package includes a completed metal part and all of the consumables required to 3D print your own metal part. You…
Anycubic Unveils Kobra Series and Anycubic Photon M3 Series of 3D Printers
Via Anycubic Anycubic, a leading 3D printer manufacturer, today announced its Anycubic Kobra series and Anycubic Photon M3 series of 3D printers, featuring leading-edge Anycubic LeviQ auto bed leveling technology and Anycubic LighTurbo matrix light source that provides a radically improved user-friendly…
Powder Handling and Flow for Additive Manufacturing: Short course
Article contributed by: The University of Greenwich Powder Handling and Flow for Additive Manufacturing: Short course:20 – 24 June 2022; 13:00 – 16:00 hrs UK time Join us for the online short course where experts from the Additive Manufacturing industry…
What is DED and why you should be using it? Part Two
By Robert Bowerman, Technical Consultant, Autodesk Welcome back to part two in this short series on Directed Energy Deposition technology. In case you missed part one you can check it out here. In part one, we discussed the basics of…
Fusion 360 and Formlabs makes large volume 3D printing easier than ever
You may remember back in June of 2021 Autodesk Fusion 360 and Formlabs announced a partnership to bring our respective technologies together into a cohesive manufacturing workflow. With that first launch, Fusion 360 integrated SLA additive manufacturing capabilities, giving users…
How quoting software can remove growing pains for the AM industry
This is a guest post from DigiFabster, a US-based manufacturing software firm specializing in instant quotation and lead conversion tools tailored for digital manufacturing. As individual shops and the 3D/AM industry overall move from one-off prototyping towards mass production of…
China’s No. 1 Formula Electric Team Releases 2021 New Cars – With UnionTech 3D Printing
On October 15, Tongji University DIAN Racing (“TJU DIAN Racing”), China’s No.1 formula E team, unveiled its new car for the 2021 season. UnionTech used its SLA printing technology to help TJU DIAN Racing complete the production of 56 parts.…
