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New Simplify3D 3D Printing Materials Guide Helps You Choose Filament and Optimize Results Materials

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The last few years have seen an explosion of new materials for 3D printing applications. Each material has its own strengths and weaknesses, so choosing the right one can be a daunting task. After more than a year of research and development, Simplify3D has published an extensive 3D Printing Materials Guide that explores all of the popular filaments in use today, providing expert tips to improve your results with each material. In addition to in-depth articles on more than a dozen different filament types, the Guide also includes a detailed Properties Table for comparing the physical and mechanical properties of one material against another.

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Trinckle Turns PROTIQ’s Fully Digital 3D Printing Business Model Into Reality AM Software

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  Berlin-based trinckle provides design automation for 3D printing – with a focus on product customization. For the PROTIQ Marketplace, the company developed a web-based configurator for inductors that enables customers to configure and order customized copper inductors in a fully digitized process. Starting with a customized component design based on intuitive online configuration, an automatic […]

Nexa3D Shows Off NXV High Speed Photopolymerization 3D Printer at CES 3D Printer Hardware

Nexa3D Shows Off NXV High Speed Photopolymerization 3D Printer at CES 3D Printer Hardware

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Nexa3D is providing non-stop live demonstrations of its ultra-fast photopolymerization 3D printer at CES 2018 in Las Vegas. The company is previewing the NXV, its first professional 3D printer. Priced at $19,950 per system and capable of printing 30 micron XY resolutions, the NXV is the largest, fastest and most accurate 3D printer in its category. The NXV is ideal for functional prototyping, production tooling and manufacturing of end-use parts. The printer is equipped with cognitive software and integrated sensors that together optimize manufacturing part performance, provide detailed diagnostics and offer continuous monitoring. Watch the NXV 3D printer in action.

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Kwambio launches Ceramo OneTM ceramics 3D printer 3D Printer Hardware

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Professional ceramics 3D Printing is starting to take hold as stereolithography, extrusion and binder jetting processes are being optimized and adapted for working with ceramics materials. The latest announcement in this sense comes from Kwambio: the NYC-based startup developed its very own high precision 3D printer, the Ceramo OneTM, specifically for 3D printing of ceramic objects. They are going to present it at CES in Las Vegas in early January.

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E3D Releases Liquid Cooled Titan Aqua 3D Printer Extruder 3D Printer Hardware

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The primary case for 3D printing with a water-cooled HotEnd like the new Titan Aqua from E3D is related to the use of heated chambers or passively-heated enclosures. Heated chambers use an active heating element and are necessary when printing with some engineering and high-performance filaments. Passively-heated enclosures simply use heat generated from the print bed to warm the air inside a 3D printer, in order to prevent materials like ABS and ASA from warping due differences in air temperature.

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Former Autodesk Spark Execs Seek to Revolutionize 3D Modeling Using Bots101 and AI AM Software

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Remember Spark? The Autodesk software and fund born to seamlessly integrate 3D printing into AM processes and CAD software? While the overall structure has now been absorbed into other projects like Netfabb and Fusion 360, the experience and vision live on in many other ways. One is Bots101, an online platform, now open for beta access, created by former Autodesk Spark exects and developers. I caught up with Eyal Nir, co-founder of BOTS101, who showed me exactly how far bots and artificial intelligence could go in helping more people create 3D content for AR, VR and – of course – 3D printing.

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Maritime industry leaders address the challenge of 3D printing and IP rights. AM Software

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Create it REAL secured a 3D print pilot project with Green Ship of the Future consortium in Denmark. The project is part of the Green Ship of the Future project portfolio: The maritime opportunity space of 3D print, and specifically explores onboard printing and related challenges in the current supply chain, as well as existing technology. Accordingly, the partners represent the majority of the supply chain around spare parts and include J. Lauritzen, Maersk Line, Maersk Tankers, Maersk Drilling, MAN Diesel & Turbo, DNV GL, Copenhagen Business School and Create it real. The project is financed by the Danish Maritime Fund.