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3DPOD Episode 199: Collaborative Design with Graham Bredemeyer, CEO of CADchat
About a decade ago, entrepreneur Graham Bredemeyer started Collider, a company that combined the best of 3D printing with injection molding. Now he runs CADChat, which hopes to make sharing…
3D Printing News Briefs, July 30, 2022: 3D Printed Seafood & Car Accessories & More
We’re starting with event news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as Formlabs has opened registration for its fifth annual User Summit this fall. Moving on, MeaTech and Umami Meats…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: June 6, 2021
We’ve got another busy week of webinars and events, both live and online, to tell you about in this week’s roundup! Topics run the gamut from 3D printing aircraft cabin…
Riven Announces Quick Re-Scaling Tool for Addressing Distortions in 3D Printed Parts
After developing a unique quality control package, Riven has expanded its capabilities for producing quality parts with 3D printing. The company’s new re-scaling tool automatically re-scales models for 3D printed…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: May 23, 2021
With seven webinars and events each on May 25th and 26th, five on the 27th, and one on the 28th, I won’t waste time with a lengthy intro. Keep reading…
Oqton Raises $40M for AI-Based Manufacturing in Series A Round
Belgian-based AI manufacturing software company Oqton raised $40 million today through a round lead by Fortino Capital, PMV, and Sandvik. According to the firm, “several angel investors, including Carl Bass…
AddiFab & GEOSearch Partner to Automate Tooling Part Selection for 3D Printing
Danish company AddiFab manufactures a technology it refers to as Freeform Injection Molding with which you can inexpensively 3D print molds and other soft tooling. Just recently, the firm set…
NYU Team Gets NSF Grant to Turn CAD Files into Audio Files
Computer-aided design (CAD) files have become one of the most valuable assets of engineers and experts in a great variety of fields, universities, and institutions all over the world. This…
Industry 4.0: Stop letting your suppliers own your CAD
Your organization’s engineering outsourcing practices may be providing short-term cost savings while introducing long-term risk. Losing control of your CAD means losing control of your engineering future. Stop letting your…
Italian Startup Turns to Metal 3D Printing for Dental Implants with 24-Hour Turnaround
One application where 3D printing continues to increase in use is the dental field. Italian startup Yndetech, which produces high-quality dental implants and devices, purchased its first metal 3D printer from 3D…
BCN3D Technologies Releases Open Source Files for Sigmax 3D Printer
This past fall, BCN3D Technologies, based out of Barcelona and best-known for its Sigma 3D printer, released the multi-material Sigmax 3D printer at the TCT Show. The professional desktop Sigmax, which features a…
3D Systems’ High-Quality 3D Printed Appearance Models Provide Trade Show Support at Oil & Gas Industry Event
Large-scale parts and machines are not always the easiest, or cheapest, objects to bring to a trade show or conference. But 2D photographs just don’t offer the same kind of…
Take a PEEK at the Competition: Solvay Group Launching International Additive Manufacturing Challenge for University Students
Everyone enjoys a good 3D printing contest. A lot of them come from the likes of Pinshape, Stratasys, and NASA, and recently a new challenge was launched from a rather unexpected source…
Local Motors Relies on MakerBot 3D Printers and Software to Make Parts for Autonomous Olli Vehicle
Last summer, 3D printing-friendly tech and automotive company Local Motors teamed up with IBM’s Watson IoT’s AutoLAB to release the self-driving Olli shuttle, which was created with 3D printing technology…
EMS Uses Surphaser 100HSX to Scan Guy Lombardo’s Vintage Tempo V Hydroplane
3D scanning can be used to help create replicas of many things: the first all-metal passenger airplane, artifacts from the 1500s, and even a famous pig. Industrial 3D scanning and printing…
Addressing Planned Obsolescence with 3D Printing
Imagine that you had invented a thingamajig that was widely recognized to be of high quality and very useful. Soon, everyone was buying one and your hard-earned investment was paying…
