Does the industry need a single umbrella term? And if so, should it be 3D printing or additive manufacturing? The trouble is, what the industry thinks and what outsiders think are very different.
On a grey April morning, 50 of the UK's foremost additive manufacturing industry experts gathered for the tenth AMNet meeting. TCT went along to see what goes on at these gatherings.
Deepak Mehta (Aka @deeeep) reviewed the Creatr 3D printer by Leapfrog for us not long after he purchased it. Here he tells us how it is performing a year down the line.
Amazing Low Fi High Tech Headphones from design studio j.c.karich available on Thingiverse. Using only 3D printing parts, some copper wire and magnets you can make your own fully functional headphones.
No not the Olympic Gold Medalist celebration but these educational 3D Printed modular robots. Designed to give children the skills they need to survive in the 21st Century.
Demonstration of Polygonica's healing functionality. The model, courtesy of LimitState, shows how Polygonica is capable of fixing extremely large and complex solid models automatically while maintaining the original intended shape.
The truth is that in the world of AM, unless your 3D model is clean and watertight you will not be able to make the part. You don't want to know how your software works, you just want it to generate watertight models ready for printing.
