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Fun with Foam Printing
Easy to follow tutorial showing you step-by-step how to arrive at printing from recycled foam or polystyrene.
Sand Your Way to Smoother 3D Printed Parts by Following These Easy Steps
When we speak about 3D printing, we spend much time on the design, modeling, and printing of our objects. But let's not forget that in order to optimize your print job there's also the prerequisite finishing of the print. This is no small part of an overall successful print.
How to produce functional prototypes fast with 3D printing
3D printing helps developer of solar based cooler get to market faster.
How to move from 3D printing to injection molding
Additive manufacturing has a firm place in product development, but how and when do you transition from 3D printing to molding?
How 3D Printing is Changing Sand Casting
It's eliminated much of the tedium of the sand casting process while making the process faster, more flexible, and significantly more cost-competitive than other casting methods.
When Should 3D Printing Be Used in Sand Casting?
Sand casting is a technology with a long history, but it's being reinvented by additive manufacturing. 3D printed sand molds allow for highly geometrically complex castings, and in a paper entitled Economies of Complexity of 3D Printed Sand Molds for Casting, a group of researchers outlines the b...
How to Design for Nylon 3D Printing
Consider minimum feature size, part warpage potential, differential shrink, and powder removal when designing for Multi Jet Fusion and selective laser sintering.
3D Printing Tips: How to Create Self Supporting Angles
Through careful design choices when 3D printing, you can create parts in a way that reduces or even eliminate overhangs, ultimately reducing the need for support.
How Speedo Took a Big Lead in Design with 3D Printing
Now, Speedo's designs can be 3D printed, in multiple materials when necessary, in a day or less and be tested directly in the pool.
How Viable is 3D Printing for Building Large Structures?
Manufacturers have used 3D printing for several years to create everything from automobile parts to submachine guns to eyeglasses. However, the idea to use such technology to create large building str
3D printing in gel shows how scientists could print human organs
While scientists have had success in the past printing structures like "bionic ears," a clear path to making functional internal organs and tissue hasn't really emerged. However, researchers at the...
The Foam Printing Project Part Two: 3D Printing to Lightweight All the Things
MIT research specialist Matthew Pearlson is the founder of The Foam Printing Project, an innovative advance building on his idea to use additive manufacturing and lightweight foam for the creation of lighter-weight structures so the world could use less fuel.
How to Properly Mix Pour Foam
Innovative 3D-Printed Modular Home Is Build In Just Three Hours
3d printing technology takes another step to changing our world, this time an entire house was built in less than three hours! The Chinese company Zhuoda
How To Make Foam Props Using Foam-iT!™ 10 Urethane Foam
Foam props can be used for movies, theater, cosplay and more. Learn how to make props which look real but are safe to use. In this tutorial video, Milo shows...
Foam Fabrication that Measures up!
We designed this foam insert for a set of measuring equipment to be stored in a molded plastic case. For more info, email us at info@...
The Future of 3D Printing: Five Trends
What can be done with additive manufacturing isn’t theoretical anymore; it’s fact. The future of 3D printing has massive implications for a variety of industries and aspects of manufacturing, such as production, supply chain, design, materials and sustainability.
How Polyurethane Foam Can Produce More Accurate Tooling at a Lower Cost
This article looks at how polyurethane foam can produce more accurate tooling at a lower cost.
The Complete Guide to Printing Professional Quality Photos at Home
In this day and age, photography is more accessible than ever before. The folks at Apple brag about their phone’s ability to take billboard quality photos in a package that fits inside your pants’ pocket. Canon recently came out with a consumer-grade DSLR with a sensor that boasts 50 megapixels,
How to unit test PDA/Handheld and barcode printing
At a customer implementing my PDA and BarTender add-ons, are currently doing a lot of testing. The following picture shows how one of the implementation consultants are testing this out in “r…
