The CAD/CAM business has been an alphabet soup since Noah was a boy, but when PLM came along most people breathed a sigh of relief in that this single acronym seemed to embrace all the others.
The production of metallic objects directly through an additive process represents arguably one of the greatest revolutions in manufacturing since humans first began to deliberately manipulate metals around 8,years ago.
Deepak Mehta (Aka @deeeep) has taken the plunge and bought a Creatr from Leapfrog. Want to know what it's like to live with? Here are Deepak's initial findings...
My blog post asking for opinions on 3D printing (20/06/12) seems to have got the writing juices flowing. Here is another response that was too good (and long) to post as a comment and merits its own spot in our guest blogger section on PersonaliZe.
When I knew I was to become a parent for the first time I admittedly got rather excited when I found out that it was a boy. Like so many of us blokes my immediate thoughts were about all the practical toys I could ‘legitimately’ buy.
Song lyrics in a post about 3D printing — not tried this before, but it really couldn’t be more appropriate to my musings this week. While I am sure many of you will disagree, I reckon I could do worse than Whitney as my muse — have you guessed yet?
You may feel that the title of this column is a little misleading — surely every design you produce should be perfect? Not so says Dan Johns, a Senior Engineer on the Bloodhound Project…
For as long as humans have been able to move they have wanted to move more quickly. In the beginning, it was for survival. Then it was for growth and development. And now?
Kevin Quigley runs his own successful product design agency and has been a first hand witness to the evolution of digital tools for product development — which includes but is in no way limited to 3D printing — over the last couple of decades ...
After my previous post about challenging hype, which was followed by a week that saw a slew of new articles of the nature I challenged, it seems it is all going to get worse before it gets better.
