Manufacturing

3D PRINTED MAGICAL WORLDS AND DECORATIONS AT STUDIO ARTEFACT

Studio Artefact specializes in “themed immersive experiences” uses 3D printing to create awe-inspiring structures and decorations. At present, Studio Artefact operates a fleet of six BigRep large-format 3D printers. The team works mainly with PETG, and has seen its horizons widen exponentially with each additional 3D printer installed. Prior to 3D printing, it would make most of its large structures with styrofoam sculpting, welding, and woodworking technique, which was painstaking and took much longer than 3D printing, placing a limit on productivity and profitability.

Abbey Delaney

 from 

BigRep-

Updated on 07 Dec, 2021

5 minutes read

The 3D printing revolution continues: The second beta for the Ultimaker Cura Arachne engine

Earlier this year, we announced that we are working on a major enhancement to the Ultimaker Cura slicing algorithm: the Arachne engine. Arachne is a revolutionary improvement to the way prints are sliced, enabling you to quickly create parts with high quality and strong walls.

Elder Linssen

 from 

UltiMaker-

Updated on 03 Dec, 2021

2 minutes read

How can 3D printing and certification change the oil and gas industry?

3D printing offers many benefits to the oil and gas industry including guaranteed quality standards, greater flexibility of design parts, less product development time, reduced carbon emissions, less waste, reduced costs and rapid turnaround from order receipt to product delivery.

Jade Jones

 from 

Protolabs-

Updated on 29 Oct, 2021

Schwartz Off Road Motorsportz: Saving time on and off the track with 3D printing

Owner and driver, Erik Schwartz of Schwartz Off Road Motorsportz is an engineer by trade and spends all of his free time tinkering and maintaining his vehicle to compete in the Championship Off Road Series. Schwartz has become adept at making improvements on the fly.

Aliza Sterling

 from 

UltiMaker-

Updated on 26 Nov, 2021

6 minutes read

3D scanning and sailing heritage: Restoring two shipwrecks in Croatia

Croatian waters are home to several shipwrecks and local heritage organizations are leveraging the performance of 3D scanning to document and even restore ships that were lost so long ago.

Team Creaform

 from 

Creaform-

Updated on 25 Nov, 2021

2 minutes read

Automated laser cutting of heavy parts

KOPR spol. s.r.o. developed a solution for advanced laser cutting of heavy hot-formed parts and their subsequent quality check. The solution deploys 3D vision and Bin Picking Studio from Photoneo and an ABB robot.

Marcel Svec

 from 

Photoneo-

Updated on 25 Nov, 2021

2 minutes read

20240119-Protolabs Insight: Undercut Fundamentals

This video will look at a common problem when designing parts for injection moulding, undercuts. The most common piece of advice you will get, is avoid them if you can, but sometimes you can’t. With this in mind, we will give a handful of tips that can help alleviate design issues caused by them.

Jade Jones

 from 

Protolabs-

Updated on 29 Oct, 2021

4 minutes read

Protolabs' One-stop Guide to Digital Manufacturing

Accelerate development and reduce production costs to create agility throughout your product life cycle

Jade Jones

 from 

Protolabs-

Updated on 29 Oct, 2021

Improved print quality and first-time-right results with Ultimaker Cura 4.12

Ultimaker Cura 4.12 has officially landed – and is the result of hours of print process testing and optimizations by our talented and passionate materials and software engineers.

Elder Linssen

 from 

UltiMaker-

Updated on 18 Nov, 2021

3 minutes read

Liquid-Cooled Cold Plate for Automotive Power Electronics with Shark-Inspired Flow Guides

Puntozero redesigned the cold plate of the power electronics of Dynamis PRC’s electric race car for additive manufacturing. The result was a 25% lighter liquid-cooled heat sink and bioinspired flow guides that increased the heat transfer surface area by 300%.

Team nTopology

 from 

nTopology-

Updated on 17 Nov, 2021

5 minutes read

How Kawasaki Optimized Production with 3D Printed Tooling

Read how Kawasaki Motors Corp.’s Lincoln, USA manufacturing facility saved up to 85% of costs on production tooling by optimizing automotive and aerospace production with BigRep’s large-format additive manufacturing systems. Kawasaki wasn’t a stranger to 3D printing before diving into large-format with their BigRep. By opting to invest in their own facility instead of depending on outsourcing, Kawasaki brought supply chains in house, streamlined engineering and logistical workflows, and returned their investment in just 6 months.

Abbey Delaney

 from 

BigRep-

Updated on 16 Nov, 2021

2 minutes read

PLA vs. ABS and More - Choosing the Right Filament

PLA and ABS are the most commonly used filaments out there. But which one should you pick? And are there other filament options for your application?

Abbey Delaney

 from 

BigRep-

Updated on 09 Nov, 2021

4 minutes read

Micro Additive Manufacturing challenges the traditional manufacturing status quo

Avi Cohen from Fabrica discusses how Micro Additive Manufacturing can enable cutting-edge innovation.

20240119-Protolabs Insight: 3D Printing Sustainability

Sustainability itself is a weighty topic, so this video will focus on how sustainability relates to the 3D printing process, how it stacks up against other manufacturing methods.

Jade Jones

 from 

Protolabs-

Updated on 29 Oct, 2021

4 minutes read

Inspecting complex aerospace parts with easy-to-use metrology solutions

While aerospace quality control workflows have greatly evolved over the past decade, due to the development of more complex parts, stricter tolerances, productivity pressures, challenges remain as to inspection efficiency.

Team Creaform

 from 

Creaform-

Updated on 05 Nov, 2021

3 minutes read