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3Diligent expands manufacturing-as-a-service suite AM Software

by Business

3Diligent expanded its leading manufacturing-as-a-service (MaaS) application, ProdEX, and its scalable shop management application, Shopsight. These applications respectively connect additive manufacturing service providers with clients and enable remote assessment, quoting and project management. These applications run through 3Diligent’s Connect interface: advertisers and customers can request a quote via ProdEX and management workflow through Shopsight. Connect thus serves as a gateway to Industry 4.0. It combines the software packages and uses a secure online portal and Zoom’s videoconferencing tools to connect manufacturers and customers directly.

NASA JPL provides more details about Perseverance Rover’s 3D printed metal parts Aerospace

NASA JPL provides more details about Perseverance Rover’s 3D printed metal parts Aerospace

by Aerospace

NASA is exploring additive manufacturing to build rocket engines as well as potential outposts on the Moon and Mars. Nearer in the future is a different milestone: NASA’s Perseverance rover, which lands on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021, carries 11 metal parts made with 3D printing (some of which were produced by Carpenter Technology as we reported in this exclusive interview for 3dpbm’s AM Focus 2020 Service Providers eBook)

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VELO3D launches Sapphire XC 3D printer with 5x higher throughput 3D Printer Hardware

by Technologies

VELO3D is expanding its 3D printing portfolio in a big way—literally. The California-based metal AM company has released the Sapphire XC 3D printer, which it describes as an “extra capacity” system with up to five times higher throughput compared to the original Sapphire system. The new large-format Sapphire XC also has the ability to reduce cost-per-part by up to 75%.

Zortrax prints special PEEK parts for space with support from the European Space Agency Marketing and Content

Zortrax prints special PEEK parts for space with support from the European Space Agency Marketing and Content

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Zortrax, with the support of the European Space Agency (ESA)*, is working to develop a technology that enables 3D printing high-performance composite parts out of two blends of PEEK filament in dual extrusion on the Zortrax Endureal industrial 3D printer. After nearly a year of research and development efforts, the first prototype composite parts made out of standard PEEK and experimental electrically conductive PEEK, developed by ESA, have been successfully fabricated on the Zortrax machine.