3D printing is already coming to dominate rapid prototyping services, the advantages of using 3D printing being such that those companies using old techniques struggle to compete. The future though is DDM, direct digital manufacturing, and though it will undoubtedly still have its roots in rapid prototyping services these printers will be a step beyond … Read more
The name for the latest 3D printer from Makerbot is great: The Replicator; many marketers say a good product should do what it says on the tin, unfortunately though MakertBot’s Replicator doesn’t quite do that, at least not unless you also have a 3D scanner at home. Therein lies the biggest problem with 3D printing … Read more
It was inevitable that it would happen eventually but it may be a surprise to some that 3D printing is already a Billion dollar industry despite being seen as currently still a niche waiting to break into the mainstream. Though it may be an industry that turns over a Billion dollars a year now 3D … Read more
3D Systems have won an award as Global Digital Manufacturing leader, for the second year in a row. Winning the prize, voted for by Design World Magazine readers, for a second year proves that 3D Systems really are leading the way and are doing more than anyone else to move forward 3D printing and manufacturing … Read more
Using 3D printers though students at Centennial High School in Franklin, Tennessee can use 3d prototyping services techniques to make highly accurate models and even finished working items from designs made through 3D CAD software. With classes including engineering, architecture and design at high school in the past what students ended up with were plans … Read more
