The community of AM, along with the growing interest from media journo's, have banded around talk of AM as 'the next industrial revolution', a 'technology revolution', 'a new technology age'.
The following column was prompted by a 2009 article in the Economist entitled 'Cluster champs: How racing cars built an industry.' In this response the Bloodhound project's Dan Johns examines the implications for the Additive Manufacturing industry.
''To go faster just add lightness'' -- This is a quote from Colin Chapman the legendary F1 designer, founder of Lotus and pioneer of lightweight road cars...
As the UK counts down to the London Olympics 2012, IDC Models, the rapid prototyping and model making division of Industrial Design Consultancy (IDC), is delighted to have made its own contribution to the British Olympic cycling team.
Since International Greetings adopted a Roland VersaUV LEC-540 printer/cutter for prototyping its creative greetings products, its designers spend up to 40 per cent mote time designing innovative products for clients.
The 2013 release of Delcam’s PowerSHAPE CAD system includes enhancements to its direct modelling and reverse engineering capabilities that will make the software both more flexible and even easier to use.
Having started two other blog posts for PersonaliZe this week, they are now on the back burner for future posts, and what you are going to get is a conversation I had with my son (7 years old) this morning, which brought me a true moment of clarity.
The first major product release since Solidscape became part of Stratasys, the 3ZPRO is all about simplicity, with intuitive user interface and one-button printing.
