Solid Concepts — a company that has managed to stoke much publicity regarding their announcement of the world’s first 3D printed metal gun, as I covered in a somewhat controversial 3DPI article here — will showcase its excellent full product solutions line at the pending Pacific Design & Manufacturing tradeshow in February, including their aerospace production manufacturing and materials, medical cast urethane production offerings and a full range of 3D Printing solutions.
Vice President Marketing, Scott McGowan, suggested: “There is a tendency to think small when it comes to the capabilities of 3D printing. It’s good to step back and look at how long the industry has been here. Look at the larger scale, the larger format of many of these 3D printing industrial systems. Creators, inventors and makers can start looking beyond small desktop 3D printers and consider what is achievable on the industrial scale with service providers that have decades of experience.”
Solid Concepts has equipment that can 3D print a single part as large as 3’ x 2’ x 3’ (91.44cm x 60.96cm x 91.44cm) housed in seven facilities across the US (Los Angeles, CA; San Diego, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Tucson, AZ; Austin, TX; Detroit, MI). What can one produce with that production volume? For an extremely rough but broadly-encompassing idea, a link to a search for ’60cm-cubed metal’ using Google Shopping can be found for your perusal here.
Solid Concepts’ custom manufacturing product line includes PolyJet™ high-precision 3D printing, Stereolithography® (SLA), 3D Colour Printing, Selective Laser Sintering® (SLS), Fused Deposition Modeling® (FDM), ID-Light™ lightweight parts, CNC machining, QuantumCast™ advanced cast urethanes, and Composites
The company will showcase its full range of custom solutions and offers representatives to expand upon their product offerings such as:
- A 3D Printed fuel tank and ailerons on a low-cost test platform UAV being used by NASA for inexpensive commercial flight and aircraft research.
- A 3D Printed air duct certified and tagged by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) which is currently on a re-purposed DC-10 aircraft.
- Medical and environmental applications permeating the industrial and consumer market in prototype and production form.
