Aerospace 3D Printing
by Clare Scott | Jul 21, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printing, Aerospace 3D Printing
Early last week, NASA announced the winners of the second level of the second phase of the 3D Printed Habitat Challenge, a multiphase competition that began in 2015 and challenges participants to 3D print habitable structures that could potentially be used as housing... 
by Sarah Saunders | Jul 20, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Aerospace 3D Printing, Business, Metal 3D Printing
This spring, 3DPrint.com was on site when Airbus and Dassault Systèmes became official residents of the Innovation Campus at Wichita State University (WSU) in Kansas, with a combined goal of innovation in the aerospace field. The grand opening marked a big step... 
by Sarah Saunders | Jul 18, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Aerospace 3D Printing, Business, Education, Metal 3D Printing
We’re diving headfirst into some 3D printing legal and business news for today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, and then moving on to an additive manufacturing competition and a new additive manufacturing company, a new hybrid material, and a 3D printed solution... 
by Sarah Saunders | Jul 18, 2017 | 3D Printing, Aerospace 3D Printing
There are 3D printed drones that can fly up into the air from underwater, 3D printed heat-resistant drones that could potentially withstand the punishing conditions inside a volcano, and NASA has even worked on 3D printing parts for future space drones. But today,... 
by Sarah Saunders | Jul 14, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Software, Aerospace 3D Printing
During college, I was a staff photographer and the chief copy editor for our school newspaper. I also landed two great summer internships – one in the marketing department of a symphony, and one as a copy editor for a local newspaper. During all of these... 
by Sarah Saunders | Jul 11, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Aerospace 3D Printing, Business, Education, Metal 3D Printing
We’re talking a lot of business here in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs – everything from an important new hire and ISO certification to a partnership and a webinar series, and then some aerospace materials and metal 3D printing to round things out.... 
by Clare Scott | Jul 11, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Aerospace 3D Printing, Robotics
There seems to be no end to the advancements being made in 3D printing materials, and one type of material that has expanded and diversified recently has been 3D printed foam. Whether it’s made from graphene or ceramic, or other materials, 3D printed foam... 
by Sarah Saunders | Jul 10, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printing, Aerospace 3D Printing, Popular Stories, Science & Technology
My husband and I are science fiction fans, and as such own some of Ray Bradbury’s works, including short story collection The Martian Chronicles. I especially like “The Million-Year Picnic,” when a family from Earth goes to live on Mars, and the... 
by Sarah Saunders | Jul 6, 2017 | 3D Printing, Aerospace 3D Printing, Science & Technology
Biomimicry, according to the Biomimicry Institute, is the search for sustainable solutions to human problems by mimicking solutions that are already found in nature. This practice has been coupled with 3D printing technology multiple times, from 3D printed... 
by Clare Scott | Jul 5, 2017 | 3D Printing, Aerospace 3D Printing, Business, Metal 3D Printing
Every metal used in manufacturing, and 3D printing in particular, has its unique benefits, but titanium is an especially popular material for a number of reasons. It’s the go-to metal for medical implants, thanks to its strength, light weight, corrosion... 
by Clare Scott | Jul 4, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printing, Aerospace 3D Printing, Science & Technology
There’s been a lot of talk lately about traveling to the moon, Mars or both. 3D printing has a lot to do with every stage of the planned journey into space, whether it’s through the construction of the rockets that will take us there or the habitats we... 
by Clare Scott | Jul 4, 2017 | 3D Printing, Aerospace 3D Printing, Business, Education
Metropolitan State University of Denver is about to become a leader in additive manufacturing, thanks to a $1 million investment from Lockheed Martin. The money will go towards the construction of the first additive manufacturing laboratory in Colorado, which will be... 
by Sarah Anderson Goehrke | Jul 3, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Scanning, 3D Software, Aerospace 3D Printing, Business, Exclusive Interviews, Medical 3D Printing, Metal 3D Printing, Popular Stories, Robotics, Science & Technology
As the 3D printing industry heats up, so do the jet and car engines as we continue to travel around the US and the world to check in on the latest developments directly. 2016 kept us busy, from trade shows to site visits, from Barcelona to San Diego, as we went around... 
by Bridget Butler Millsaps | Jul 3, 2017 | 3D Printing, Aerospace 3D Printing, Medical 3D Printing, Science & Technology
NASA has been using 3D printing for decades now, and few organizations can top their experience or resourcefulness with the technology. NASA tends to make big news with 3D printing, most of it centered around rockets and Mars, as well as inspiring student challenges.... 
by Sarah Saunders | Jul 1, 2017 | 3D Software, Aerospace 3D Printing, Science & Technology
If you were at all conscious in the year 1998, then you remember the major end-of-the-world asteroid movie that came out that year, Armageddon; not to be confused with the major end-of-the-world comet movie Deep Impact, which inexplicably came out the exact same year... 
by Clare Scott | Jun 29, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printing, Aerospace 3D Printing, Business
They’re often referred to as “puddle-jumpers” – the small commuter aircraft that transport people to relatively nearby destinations a few hundred miles away, as opposed to the big jet airliners that travel across the country or to international... 
by Charles Goulding | Jun 29, 2017 | 3D Printing, Aerospace 3D Printing, Business
Telecommunications is defined as the transfer of information over long distances via some electronic form, including phones, microwave communications, fiber optics, satellites, radio and TV broadcasting, and the internet. Over the past several years, the telecom... 
by Clare Scott | Jun 28, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Aerospace 3D Printing, Business, Metal 3D Printing
Renishaw is a busy company, lending its metrology and metal 3D printing expertise to a broad variety of applications from boats to eye surgery. One of its primary industries, however, has always been aerospace. That’s a particular area of focus right now... 
by Sarah Saunders | Jun 27, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Software, Aerospace 3D Printing, Business
In 3D Printing News Briefs today, we’ve got stories on 3D software, a new 3D printer, and a little business, while the technology also takes us to the sea, the roads, and outer space. The Altair Partner Alliance has added Additive Works’ Amphyon software... 
by Clare Scott | Jun 24, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Aerospace 3D Printing, Business, Medical 3D Printing, Robotics
In this week’s second edition of 3D Printing News Briefs, we have some more partnership announcements in what has become a partnership-heavy week, as well as a couple of 3D printed devices that have received FDA clearance. Nanyang Technological University,... 
by Clare Scott | Jun 23, 2017 | 3D Printing, Aerospace 3D Printing, Business, Metal 3D Printing
It’s been a news-heavy week for several companies, and GKN Aerospace is no exception. This week, the company announced that it has signed a five-year research agreement with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Under the terms of the $17.8 million agreement,... 
by Clare Scott | Jun 22, 2017 | 3D Printing, Aerospace 3D Printing, Business
Optomec is on a mission to advance 3D printed electronics, and they’ve been very busy and productive towards fulfilling that mission lately. A couple of weeks ago, the company received an award towards the development of 3D printed flexible hybrid electronics,... 
by Clare Scott | Jun 21, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Aerospace 3D Printing, Business, Metal 3D Printing, Popular Stories
One thing that 3D printing is particularly good at doing is making things smaller. I’m not just talking about high-resolution 3D printers capable of 3D printing on the nanoscale, although those have certainly done some remarkable things. I’m also referring... 
by Clare Scott | Jun 20, 2017 | 3D Printing, Aerospace 3D Printing, Business, Metal 3D Printing
There are few companies that have been busier lately than Norsk Titanium. In the last few days, the additive manufacturing company and creator of Rapid Plasma Deposition (RPD) technology made a slew of announcements, most of them relating to partnerships advancing the... 
by Sarah Saunders | Jun 20, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Aerospace 3D Printing, Metal 3D Printing
French aerospace firm Safran Power Units, which is part of the international high-technology group Safran, specializes in designing and manufacturing power systems for civil and military aerospace. Specifically, its business is organized into two distinct product... 
by Clare Scott | Jun 20, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printing, 3D Software, Aerospace 3D Printing, Business, Metal 3D Printing, Virtual Reality
Dassault Systèmes‘ 3DEXPERIENCE platform has been leveraged by a variety of clients across a range of industries, from shipbuilding to defense and more. One notable client is the Airbus Group, which has taken advantage of Dassault’s Co-Design to... 
