3D Printing
Subjecting 3D Printed Medical Ti6Al4V Implants to Laser Peening Could Increase Wear Resistance
When it comes to manufacturing biomedical implants, whether they’re 3D printed or not, titanium alloys are often used, and one of the most common is medical Ti6Al4V, thanks to its biocompatibility, mechanical properties, and excellent corrosion resistance....
3D Printing Organic Resin Objects with Inorganic Nanoparticles for Anti-Counterfeiting Measures
In order to keep our 3D printed parts safe from being illegally replicated, we often turn to anti-counterfeiting measures, such as embedded identification tags and QR codes, bar codes, and even quantum dots, which are tiny nanocrystals produced from semiconductor...
Using Artificial Intelligence to Measure 3D Printed Materials
The aerospace, automotive and medical industries in particular are abandoning traditional stylus-based contact methods for controlling their processes and performing dimensional quality control on their products, and are instead choosing to use non-contact optical 3D...
Allevi Introduces the New Triple-Extruder Bioprinter Allevi 3
Philadelphia-based bioprinting company Allevi was founded in 2014, then known as BioBots. Its goal is to make bioprinting easy – no small task, as bioprinting has always been a complex, advanced procedure. But Allevi’s desktop bioprinters are designed to...
Researchers Demonstrate Wideband Metamaterial Absorber Made of 3D Printed Conductive Plastic
There’s been a lot of research into 3D printing metamaterials over the years – due to their unique properties, they’ve been used to make everything from headphones and heart valve models to door locks and acoustic holograms, and maybe someday even...
ACEO Expands to United States with New Silicone 3D Printing Lab in Ann Arbor
WACKER, a global materials and technology manufacturer based in Munich, announced in 2016 that it had developed the first-ever industrial 3D printer for silicone materials. Around the same time, the company launched its new ACEO brand, which would be dedicated to the...
Researchers Inspired by Nature to Develop Recyclable Liquid Crystal Polymers for FDM 3D Printing
While it’s possibly to quickly manufacture complex parts at a low cost using fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printing, the readily available polymers are fairly weak, and the completed 3D prints have poor adhesion. According to an ETH Zürich research group...
ARRK Uses 3D Printing to Develop Sensitive Dummy for Automotive Testing
Automotive manufacturers use dummies for more than just testing how well a vehicle will hold up in a crash. They also use them to test comfort factors, such as temperature and other environmental conditions. Recently, ARRK Engineering was in need of a dummy to help...
GE Additive Customer Uses DMLM 3D Printing to Manufacture Blades for Medical Cutting Device
As the population continues to age, the number of necessary hip replacements rise, which means we’re seeing more 3D printed hip implants and hip cups. Implanting a hip cup is fairly straightforward these days, but removing one, for reasons ranging from abrasion...
Tortoise Pals Bond Over Their 3D Printed Shells
Daisy is a 75-pound tortoise who was injured by a car. She survived the accident but was left with two holes in her shell, leaving her vulnerable to infection and possible spinal damage. Although the holes were bandaged, the bandages had to be changed frequently,...
Siemens Mobility Turns to 3D Printing for Digital Maintenance
More and more railway systems are finding that digital inventories and 3D printed replacement parts are an effective way to save money and time and to combat obsolescence. Siemens Mobility is the latest to jump on that train, so to speak, with the opening of its first...
MIT CSAIL Creates 3D Printable Sculptures of the Body in Motion
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is responsible for numerous fascinating innovations, many of them related to 3D printing, including color-changing ink, origami-inspired robots, and much more. The lab’s latest project...
The Definitive AM Course: MIT’s Additive Manufacturing for Innovative Design and Production Starts October 1st
MIT has played a pivotal role in 3D printing for decades and has made seminal contributions to the advancement of machines, materials, and design tools. Recent work on 3D printed circuits and active materials, and startups such as Formlabs and Desktop Metal, have all...
3D Printing News Briefs: September 18, 2018
We’re starting with a bit of business news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, then a story about metal 3D printing, and then moving along with examples of some of the amazing and innovative things people have been making with this technology. Sigma Labs...
3D Printing and CNC Machining Platform Weerg Announces New Headquarters
There are many 3D printing platforms available online, but not as many that offer both 3D printing and CNC machining. One site that does is the new platform Weerg, which offers both additive and subtractive manufacturing services to customers. All a client needs to do...
Assessing Impact Resistance of 3D Printed Polyjet Objects
An object’s design has a large influence on how damage-resistant it is. In a thesis entitled “Peridynamic Modeling of Dynamic Fracture in Bio-Inspired Structures for High Velocity Impacts,” a University of Nebraska-Lincoln Master’s student...
First Mechanical Properties Tests of 3D Printed Carbon CLIP Lattice Parts
California 3D printing company Carbon, founded in 2013, suddenly hit the scene in 2015 with its innovative Continuous Liquid Interface Production (CLIP) technology, which uses the power of light and oxygen to cure a photosensitive resin. Rather than building an object...
3D Printing Creates Soft Tooling Inserts for Injection Molding Process
3D printing is a great technology on its own, but it also lends itself well to complementing other manufacturing technologies, such as injection molding. In a paper entitled “A Soft Tooling Process Chain for Injection Molding of a 3D Component with Micro...
3D Printing Used to Create Optimized Surgical Snake Robot
Intraluminal surgical procedures are those that take place within the walls of an organ, particularly tubular ones. In a paper entitled “Rolling-Joint Design Optimization for Tendon Driven Snake-like Surgical Robots,” a group of researchers discuss how...
Photocentric: Using LCD Screens for Resin-Based 3D Printing
Far more than just a device able to make calls, send emails, play music, take pictures, and share those pictures on social media, cell phones are capable of amazing feats when paired with 3D printing. They can be turned into microscopes and other medical devices, and...
Comparing 3D Printed Parts Made with Virgin and Recycled PLA
While 3D printing continues to grow in leaps and bounds, it still creates a lot of waste, due to removed support structures, disposable prototypes, failed prints, and multiple iterations. Luckily, PLA is biodegradable, and the waste can be easily managed in multiple...
Modix Releases Latest Large Format Self-Assembly 3D Printer
Based in Tel Aviv, Modix is a manufacturer of large format 3D printers such as the Modix Big 60, currently available in its second version. The Big 60 is an impressively sizable 3D printer, but it looks small next to the company’s most recent release, the Modix...
AMT Announces Official Release of PostPro3D Automated Post-Processing System
No one particularly enjoys post-processing after 3D printing a part, but there are technologies that make it easier, and that’s the specialty of English company Additive Manufacturing Technologies (AMT). Last year the company introduced its PostPro3D technology,...
HP Has a One Sized Fits All 3D Printing Solution For Orthotics With Flowbuilt, Materialise and Go 4-D
HP is entering the 3D printing market in a big way. The company has just announced that it will launch metal 3D printers and is rolling out more automated 3D printers for polymers. The company is making significant inroads and investments in the technology. The...
Nanoscale 3D Printing Company BMF Material Technology Partners with Onshape
As micro- and nanoscale 3D printing become more developed and advanced, more companies are emerging that focus solely on the technology and work to further its development. BMF Material Technology is one of those companies. Founded in 2016, BMF designs, develops and...
