Netfabb Studio Professional, one of the most widely-used software package for 3D printing and AM, can now able directly read data files from all major CAD systems, with market-leading functionality from Tech Soft 3D’s HOOPS Exchange
Rachel Park continues her insightful series of articles about the “Barriers to Adoption" in AM. In the first installments she covered costs and materials. In this installment she discusses the 3D data input you’ll need before ever pressing “print”.
From the Olympics, to the Paralympics and from Hellmand to Dakar, Dan Johns takes a look at how AM and 3D printing are impacting on lives positively, and a look forward to further developments.
So we are just a week out from TCTLive 2012, which this year will feature the Personalize Pavilion — right now I am a paradoxical bundle of excitement, stress, gleeful anticipation and dread. (Straight-jacket, anyone?)
PTC's Kevin Asbridge talks about making a good business case for a PLM implementation by highlighting how value can be added across the development lifecycle.
ExOne’s “Digital Part Materialization”. This process builds objects by treating a powdered material with a bonding agent from a print head. The object is then placed into a furnace for sintering, which burns out the binder and fuses the metal.