3D Printer Store » 3d rapid prototypers http://www.3dprinterstore.com Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:11:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Will 3D Printing Finally Go Mainstream? http://www.3dprinterstore.com/2009/12/will-3d-printing-finally-go-mainstream.html http://www.3dprinterstore.com/2009/12/will-3d-printing-finally-go-mainstream.html#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:38:03 +0000 3D Printer Store http://www.3dprinterstore.com/?p=120 Everyone wants to be a designer. That’s the value proposition of JuJups.com, a new online service claiming it will allow consumers to design their own personalized and customized 3D content. 3D printing, as the underlying technology is called, is a form of rapid prototyping that builds up three-dimensional objects by “printing” successive layers of materials [...]]]> Everyone wants to be a designer. That’s the value proposition of JuJups.com, a new online service claiming it will allow consumers to design their own personalized and customized 3D content. 3D printing, as the underlying technology is called, is a form of rapid prototyping that builds up three-dimensional objects by “printing” successive layers of materials (polymer, cells, sugar, etc.) on top of each other.

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As a recent Wired story points out, 3D-printing technology has been around for a while, mostly used by professional design firms and design-intensive businesses such as automakers, handset makers, and aerospace companies. Recent advancements have enabled the technology to “print out” fully functional finished products, leading to a remarkable boom in equipment sales: according to market research firm Wohlers Associates, 8,000 machines, or 36 percent of the industry’s two-decade worldwide sales total of 22,000, have been sold in the past two years alone.

Multi-material 3D printers, capable of producing 3D parts and assemblies made from different materials in a single build, are hitting the market, and companies like Freedom of Creation (FOC) are paving the way for making rapid manufacturing technologies accessible for consumers.

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]]> http://www.3dprinterstore.com/2009/12/will-3d-printing-finally-go-mainstream.html/feed 0 3D Rapid Prototypers in 2009 http://www.3dprinterstore.com/2009/12/3d-rapid-prototypers-in-2009.html http://www.3dprinterstore.com/2009/12/3d-rapid-prototypers-in-2009.html#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:15:53 +0000 3D Printer Store http://www.3dprinterstore.com/?p=74 3D scanning and 3D rapid prototyping technology has increasingly been growing year by year, and there are new advances and applications on 3 dimensional printing from different manufactures of this technology.

RAPID 2009 is a good trade show in the US on 3-D imaging capturing, rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing. The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) [...]]]> RAPID-PHOTOTYPES-20093D scanning and 3D rapid prototyping technology has increasingly been growing year by year, and there are new advances and applications on 3 dimensional printing from different manufactures of this technology.

RAPID 2009 is a good trade show in the US on 3-D imaging capturing, rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing. The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) organizes this event every year and it is home of developers and manufactures for presenting their products and newest technology. This is also a conference, workshop and exhibition show where there is the possibility to learn and interact with the manufactures at first hand. Two technical writers from FLAAR Reports staff where present at this year’s event, and got to learn and evaluate the newest advances in rapid prototyping.

The major companies of 3D rapid prototypers that where present at this event were: envisionTEC, EOS Electro Optical Systems, MTT Technologies Group, Objet Geometries, Solidscape, STRATASYS, 3D Systems and Z Corporation.

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