News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
Fresh on the heels of raising close to $50 million (from investors that include Stratasys and GE) Desktop Metal is now looking to significantly expand its team as they prepare to launch a truly office friendly metal 3D printer, to build complex parts at a price that makes it attainable by every design and manufacturing team.
While it was a somewhat challenging year for the entire industry, 2016 will probably be remembered as the year when 3D printing finally moved away from prototyping as most 3D printer manufacturers came to the realization that the future is digital production. This realization was driven by giant companies like HP, GE and others, investing significant resources toward this new objective, with this reflecting on all other players, including low cost filament based system manufacturers. Our list of the top applications for 2016 can but reflect this trend.
Today, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced up to $35 million in available funding to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing that are not significantly represented in EERE’s current portfolio.
Conceived to celebrate the first Maison 203 store in Venice, it is part of Fritto Misto, the new collection of 3D printed design souvenirs inspired by playful imagination, far removed from monuments and tourist guides.
JUNO Design, one of the most experienced rapid prototyping studios in Italian automotive sector and beyond, just released a spectacular video showing exactly how they use all 3D technologies (including 3D scanning, 3D modeling and 3D printing) in order to turn ideas into original products ready for serial production.
DWS, Italy’s number one professional stereolithography 3D printer manufacturer, first announced XFAB system in 2014. This €5,000 system was the result of the company’s founder Maurizio Costabeber’s dream to truly bring high quality 3D printing – and materials – to a wider demographic than ever before.
Additive manufacturing industry pioneer 3D Systems announced today the release of 3D Sprint 2.0, a productivity-enhancing print management and print optimization software developed for 3D Systems’ plastic 3D printers. In line with the company’s commitment to providing end-to-end digital manufacturing solutions, 3D Sprint 2.0 streamlines 3D printing workflows by reducing the need for users to divide projects among multiple software programs. This results in a simplified and more productive printing process, saving users of 3D Systems’ plastic printers time and money.
United Launch Alliance (ULA), a 50-50 joint venture between Lockheed Martin and The Boeing Company providing reliable and cost-efficient access to space, named winners for its additive manufacturing GrabCAD design challenge, called 3-2-1 Liftoff! ULA Rocket Hardware Challenge. The challenge asked participants to design a launch support attachment bracket for ULA’s current Atlas V rocket. GrabCAD, a division of Stratasys, hosted the challenge. GrabCAD is a digital manufacturing hub helping designers and engineers build great products faster.
Nano Dimension Ltd., a leader in the field of 3D printed electronics announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Nano Dimension Technologies Ltd., has delivered, in return for payment, a DragonFly 2020 3D Printer to one of top 10 largest defense companies in the world.
Founded in 2014 by Michal Koor and Pavol Sovis, VECTARY is a transformative online 3D design tool that empowers users to create, customize and share 3D models. The online App has now officially opened the public beta for its online 3D design tool.