Posts Tagged ‘Stratasys’
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
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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