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Stretch your budget with these injection moulding design recommendations
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Recently, we released Robot Selector to the world. Featuring more than 700 robots from 70 robot brands, it is the first searchable library of every 6 degree of freedom (6 DOF) robot.
Over 70 different companies produce industrial robots today. The robotics market is also expanding at an accelerating rate, which means a company buying an industrial robot today has a wide variety of brands and models to choose from.
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Metal 3D Printing is an advanced manufacturing method that builds metal parts from a CAD file using a layer-by-layer technique known as additive manufacturing.
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From the subtle stipple of your laptop’s casing of to the geometric grip of your toothbrush handle, texture is a key consideration in the design process for any and every physical product. Read further to learn how I use nTop Platform to apply texturing to products I design.
A major factor that influences design decisions during the product development of medical devices is time-to-market. Accelerating or automating your design processes can give you a distinct advantage over your competitors.
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Fast Radius had an internal design challenge to create a shoe that could be printed as one part using an elastomeric material on HP's Multi-Jet Fusion technology. They designed workflows within nTop Platform as a way to explore the industrial design of the shoe.
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Engineers from nTopology, Stress Engineering Services, and Origin joined forces to redesign a family of clamps used on the F-16 aircraft. The result was an optimized design that was 2x stiffer, easy to assemble even with one hand and manufacturable on-demand.
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Additive manufacturing (AM or 3D printing) has made design-driven production a reality. Any shape that can be constructed in a 3D CAD program can be produced with AM, providing product designers maximum geometric design freedom to realize new design concepts.
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Once you’ve decided to implement 3D printing within your workflow, you’ll need to know how to use the technology as productively as possible. The following tips will enable you to make the most of your 3D printer as quickly as possible.
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A material’s strength refers to the maximum stress it can be put under before its failure. Its stiffness refers to how much it will deform when pulled or bent. Materials with high stiffness often also have high strength.
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