Posts Tagged ‘3D Printing’
Thursday, February 18th, 2016
The Dilemma:
What Made the Dent in Boba Fett’s Helmet?
Star Wars has a memorable scene where Boba Fett pulls off his iconic helmet from his father’s head. In the space between the third and fourth movies, Boba chooses to keep his father’s helmet. Perhaps it’s a reminder for him or a symbol of the torch passing from one generation to the next. By the time we see the helmet again, Jango’s dents are gone and have been replaced by a new series of battle scars, most notably a circular shaped indentation on the front right of Boba Fett’s temple.
The Star Wars Fan Theory:
We have no way of knowing how it got there, but Star Wars Fans have a few arguments; it was a door on Slave 1, it occurred during the ship’s crash or that it came from a particularly vicious head-butt. Due to CGI errors during that pivotal scene, we have no true answer.
This Star Wars scene gave me an idea…isn’t the base of a lightsaber about that size?
As I tried to determine if this was possible, I looked into Jango Fett’s dent created during the Kamino Escape.
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Tags: 3D De, 3D Printing, GoEngineer, SOLIDWORKS, Stratasys
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
Peter Jensen’s son, Josiah, has always been a curious child, asking many questions. However, when he started asking his dad, “Hey, Dad, what’ya do at work today?” on regular basis is when Peter remembered feeling a little higher on his son’s totem pole of things that matter to a 12 year old boy.
When Peter worked in the aerospace industry, he would bring home posters and little gadgets that fascinated Josiah. To this day, Josiah still has an ATK F-22 poster hanging above his bed. Josiah had a myriad of questions for Peter when he walked through the door; “Was the work you did top-secret? Did you get to work on planes? Can I do that when I’m big? Did you bring me anything from work today?”
 Josiah Today, Peter works at GoEngineer, the questions are different, but Josiah’s curiosity remains. “He has always asked me about 3D software, and when I explained different software and what my job entailed, it seemed he couldn’t get enough,” says Peter.
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Tags: 3D Printing, GoEngineer, SOLIDWORKS
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Friday, October 2nd, 2015
A couple of years ago, a few of us at GoEngineer started dreaming about what we could accomplish if we could gather all of our employees in the same location for a couple of days—call it networking, call it collaboration, call it an excuse to recharge. There was no doubt that the amount of talent and energy that could be shared had the potential to be game-changing for our company and customers.
Full disclosure: there had been flashes of this magic in past meetings with our technical team. We started bringing them together in one location a few years ago, thinking it’d be good to get everyone on the same page.
What we discovered was much bigger.
The impact of putting really bright, energetic, and innovative people in the same room for a few hours would actually create new and better “pages,” ones we hadn’t even considered.
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Tags: 3D printers, 3D Printing, CAD, design, Engineering, GoEngineer, innovation, Shape Your World, social, SOLIDWORKS, Stratasys, technology
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015
3D Scanning is the art of capturing real geometry by scanning physical products and getting them into a format to be used for diverse applications such as 3D printing, reverse engineering, inspection, and more.
If you think about it, 3D digitizing and additive manufacturing truly go hand-in-hand. So the partnership Creaform announced with Stratasys this summer is an absolute perfect fit.
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Tags: 3D Design, 3D Printing, 3D scanner, 3D Scanning, 3DExperience, Creaform, GoEngineer, HandyScan, reverse engineering, Shape Your World, SOLIDWORKS, Stratasys, technology
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2015
Recently, I wrote about transforming JoeEngineer from a 2D image into a 3D solid model using SOLIDWORKS with Bringing 2D into the Next Dimension. Although I can create some very nice rendering using PhotoView 360, I wanted something a bit more tangible and set out to print Joe on a variety of our Stratasys 3D printers to create a life-sized head.
Joe’s Hair – Stratasys 250mc
Joe’s hair was not only the hardest to design, but it was also the most time consuming to print and post process. Important pieces to the hair process puzzle included:
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Tags: 3D Design, 3D printers, 3D Printing, ABA, ABS, GoEngineer, JoeEngineer, mascot, Objet, Polyjet, Stratasys, thermoplastic
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Thursday, May 21st, 2015
Our Santa Ana, CA office was buzzing with fun and giggles last week. We welcomed an Irvine Girl Scout Troop to get an insider’s look at custom design and 3D printers in action. 11 troop members, aged only 8-9yrs old, were all but shy when it came to being an engineer for the day. They excitedly listened to Jeff Jordan, Applications Engineer at GoEngineer, as he walked them through the SOLIDWORKS design steps of creating a custom Girl Scout cookie. They got their design inspiration from a favorite cookie, the Thin Mint, then added the Girl Scout logo for fun.
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Tags: 3D Design, 3D printers, 3D Printing, design, education, Engineering, futureengineer, girl scout, innovation, SOLIDWORKS, Stratasys, technology
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2015
During my travels as a CAMWorks Application Engineer, I’ve instructed many training classes to diverse groups of machinists, designers and engineers. Frequently while teaching, I notice a striking challenge in terms of context for those lacking adequate machine shop experience. This can be difficult during training, considering how much artistry and background is required to skillfully work with CNC machinery. While CNC’s can be unforgiving dangerous machines in the wrong hands; there is really not much magic to understanding the essentials. CNC is similar to driving a car, or more accurately, using a giant 3-Dimensional, computerized Etch-A-Sketch, except with giant spinning blades and twenty horsepower motors.
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Tags: 3D Printing, CAD, CAM, CAM and tagged 3D Printing, CAMWorks, CNC, G Code, machine shop, Milling, SOLIDWORKS, Stratasys
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Airbus, Northrop Grumman—there is a good chance you recognize all of these names as aerospace and defense powerhouses.
If there is one common trend amongst all of these companies, it is their embracement of 3D printing (3DP) as a legitimate manufacturing tool. Alongside the automotive industry, aerospace and defense industries have been the driving forces behind 3DP’s revolutionary growth.
As it turns out the benefits of 3DP are quite universal so what works for large, multi-national corporations can also work for much smaller widget-makers and everyone in-between.
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Tags: 3D Printing, 3DP, Aerospace, Boeing, CAD, GoEngineer, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Product Lifecycle, Prototyping, Shape Your World, SOLIDWORKS, Stratasys
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Monday, October 27th, 2014
 In our younger, more impressionable years there seemed to be a mystique surrounding the neighborhood tree house. Whether it was in your backyard or that of your buddy’s, kids just seem to flock to that box. Some were just a collection of repurposed refuse while others were well-planned construction masterpieces. But they all seemed to be consistent in a couple of features; elevation and imagination.
Elevation: I am not sure if that aspect was overcompensation for the height-challenged youth or just because it was super cool to keep something off of the ground. Plus it gave us a reason to create stairs, rope pulls and the ever-coveted fire pole! The elevation also gave us a great way to increase our view of the world.
Imagination: Many kids have spent countless hours dreaming of different worlds. Some were playing knights defending castles of medieval times. Others piloted space ships who were exploring distant planets. Fire trucks, stage coaches and battlegrounds were all envisioned by its occupants. It’s amazing how those small boxes could invoke such an imaginative environment.
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Tags: 3D Design, 3D Printing, assemblies, assembly, CAD, elevate, elevation, Imagination, imagine lab, innovate, innovation, part model, SOLIDWORKS 2015, SolidWorks CAD, SOLIDWORKS treehouse, structure, SW2015, Tips & Tricks and tagged 3dcad
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Monday, October 27th, 2014
This post contains spoilers so be sure to have watched our new 3D printed stop-motion short, SHeLvEd, before reading: SHeLvEd: GoEngineer YouTube
When I was first approached about creating a stop-motion film using 3D printed characters I immediately accepted. “It would be fun,” I thought “…and it will be easy.”
Well the very first thing I learned about filmmaking is that it is not easy. Before I even made it to the technically difficult parts, I was confronted with the surprisingly tough artistic challenges:
- What is the storyline?
- Who are the characters and what do they look like?
- How many explosions should we add?
- Is the ending happy, sad, confusing, a cliffhanger or all of the above?
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Tags: 3D printers, 3D Printing, CNC, design, Engineer, FDM, FDM Printing, film making, Fortus, Fortus 250mc, GoEngineer, Objet, Salt Lake City, Shelved, short film, Stratasys
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