This industrial 3D printing white paper explores the properties of thermoplastic and metal materials available with stereolithography, selective laser sintering, and direct metal laser sintering technologies. It also includes a quick-reference guide of material attributes.
3D Scanning and Reverse Engineering as Your Best Solutions
nTop Platform is helping companies realize products with Additive Manufacturing by integrating the Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) workflow and removing inherent barriers to iterative redesign necessary to create breakthrough new products.
What is 3D printing? This article goes over the basics of 3D printing, otherwise known as additive manufacturing, covering its engineering principles and applications.
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Lean manufacturing focuses on creating more value with less waste. Pioneered by Toyota in the 1950s, this approach helps businesses streamline processes, improve efficiency, and eliminate activities that don't add value to the final product.
Following a successful crowdfunding campaign, the FibreSeeker 3 from FibreSeek is bringing continuous carbon fiber printing to a new audience.
ADDITIV Medical 2026 will bring together more than 500 medical professionals
Choosing between 3D printing and injection molding is one of the key decisions in product development—especially in case of prototyping.
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GD&T is the symbolic language engineers use to state exactly how much a part can vary and still work. This guide covers the basics.
This guide covers the true position formula, how to read the feature control frame, and how MMC and LMC generate bonus tolerance.
This industrial 3D printing white paper explores the properties of thermoplastic and metal materials available with stereolithography, selective laser sintering, and direct metal laser sintering technologies. It also includes a quick-reference guide of material attributes.
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3D Scanning and Reverse Engineering as Your Best Solutions
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nTop Platform is helping companies realize products with Additive Manufacturing by integrating the Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) workflow and removing inherent barriers to iterative redesign necessary to create breakthrough new products.
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As 3D printing becomes more and more sophisticated, engineers and designers are increasingly relying on the technology to shrink their product development processes, quickly iterate new concepts, test prototypes, optimize designs and so much more.
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Article 8 of our Cobot Series: Collaborative robots, working to deliver goods and services, will soon be in habitual contact with humanity, and their impact will revolutionize the workplace.
Meet Mathilde Berchon, faithful member of the Maker community, Women in 3D Printing ambassador as well as 3D printing consultant & author.
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With just under a week before submissions close we share two very different ways to use COR Alpha from some of the incredible designs entered in the challenge.
Digitization and robotics for flexible manufacturing and individualization
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Article 7 of our Cobot Series: Cobots have already staked their ground as a “must have” for industrial automation, but they’ve really just scratched the surface of what they can achieve.
A potentially life-saving monitoring system for hospital patients on general wards is one step nearer to reality thanks to Protolabs’ European Cool Idea Award.
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Strategic management of your manufacturing supply chain is critical during product development and life cycle planning. This white paper illustrates how on-demand manufacturing can be used to reduce financial risk and accelerate speed to market through the implementation of supply chain safeguards.
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Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Heidelberg have developed a photoresist for two-photon micro-printing with which, for the first time, three-dimensional polymer microstructures with cavities in nano-size can be produced.
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Find out how blockchain technology is changing the manufacturing industry and how the factories of the future will use the technology alongside others to create smarter factories.
Creating a greener aerospace sector is key for the industry to bounce back from Covid-19 according to a new report released today.
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Article 6 of our Cobot Series: Motion control of today's sophisticated robotic arms is as difficult as ever.
