Surgeons at Miami Children’s Hospital saved a young girl’s life using a 3D-printed heart model which helped to visualise a complex operation. Adaenelie, aged four, suffered from total anomalous pulmonary venous connection, a congenital heart disease.
Adira, a Portuguese sheet metal machinery manufacturer, has developed machine tools for large metal additive manufacturing components. The new machine tools are based on both powder bed fusion (PBF) and directed energy deposition (DED) technology.
Editor, Daniel O’Connor looks at how one woman’s quest for sporting gold at Rio 2016 could open up a world of customised prosthesis for victims of war.
Following the release of its Jet Fusion 3D Printing Solution, HP is turning its attention to 3D scanning with the acquisition of German scanning leader.
