We’re starting with business in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs: Canadian additive and space manufacturing companies are partnering up for a two-year project, while Thor3D and Polyga have announced a two-fold partnership of their own. Moving on, we’ve got some television news to share with you! Markforged products nearly 200 robot parts for this season of BattleBots, and EOS was featured on a new Science Channel show that premiered just a few days ago.
Partnership for Canadian Space Agency Project
While working with MDA, which is a Maxar company, on this project, Burloak will scale up its successful technology application in commercial space flight in order to create more complex components that target the sub-system level. The company will apply its aluminum and titanium material processes, which were recently flight-certified, in addition to its Invar and copper material processes, to find a solution.
Thor3D and Polyga Announce Unique Collaboration
“Calibry handheld 3D scanner is a natural fit with XTract3D reverse engineering plug-in for SOLIDWORKS. This bundle provides a complete end-to-end solution for Scan to CAD at a very affordable price,” said Thomas Tong, President of Polyga. “With this partnership, our intention is to further drive the use of 3D scanning, even for small to medium sized organizations, to design better products for manufacturing.”
Markforged Helped Create Parts for 29 BattleBots Teams
“Teams with broken bots were saved and able to fight again because of Markforged and their fantastic 3D printers. In addition, Markforged created custom shock mounts for many robot motors. This decreased the fail rate of motors that were poorly mounted, and increased the reliability and the excitement level for the 2019 fights! We can’t thank them enough,” said Greg Munson, the Founder and Executive Producer of BattleBots Inc.
Quantum (pictured), a crusher robot capable of delivering 35,000 lbs of force, has 21 3D printed Markforged parts. Undercutter robot Valkyrie, which damages the undercarriage of other robots, features 55 3D printed parts, while vertical disk spinner robot HyperShock has over 30.
EOS Featured on New Television Show by Adam Savage
According to The Futon Critic, “In the premiere episode, Adam calls on Richard Browning, the inventor and chief test pilot of the Gravity Jet Suit, which is powered by five 1000 horsepower mini jet engines, to help get Adam’s titanium Marvel Studios’ Iron Man-inspired suit to fly.”
Savage’s Iron Man suit, created by Gravity Industries, has 300 individual parts, which were 3D printed on EOS’ industrial quad-laser M400-4 3D printer. Mines shared CAD models with EOS at its Texas facility, and for six weeks, up to three of the printers ran almost constantly in order to finish the job on time. If you’re interested in learning more about this project, tune in to the Science Channel to learn more!
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