The world of heavy equipment production is experiencing a radical change. A new era of digital fabrication is being established that replacements lengthy lead times, high prices of fancy parts and high material wastes that used to dictate the former ...
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Production of giant parts in the mining, building and farming sectors has always been equated with complicated casting, huge machining and long assembly belts. These conventional techniques, although dependable, are usually limited by the design comp...
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The ever changing nature of the industrial design environment necessitates the existence of a rapid process which will in turn be more complex in nature regarding geometry and prototyping and manufacturing which can be done at low cost. The big forma...
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Therefore, you have cut your model carefully, adjusted your settings, and pressed the big red button in the hope of having something to show for 12, 24, or even 48 hours. There is a lot of confidence. However, after a few hours, things begin to go aw...
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In manufacturing, a gear that is down to a fraction of a millimeter may bring production to a standstill or a prototype part with mis-bored holes may scuttle testing. The most important aspect of owning a successful industrial 3D printing is the high...
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There is amazing potential with multi-material 3D printing, consider flexible hinges in rigid objects, gradations of color to look or work a certain way, functionally graded parts. However, nozzle temperature is the most important parameter that has ...
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There are still challenges in making the progression into producing multi-kilogram 3D printed components, and moving beyond prototyping or small batch manufacturing is a unique engineering challenge. Although all the listed aspects play a role, one o...
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When the precision of manufacturing to the micron level converges with the heavy workload needs of manufacturing itself, there is one hands-in-the-air team member directing the flow of work: the integrated motion control platform. More than merely mo...
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One of the keys to producing consistent high quality print with a large format machine is this: to be properly calibrated and perfectly balanced, the Z-axis must be absolutely perfect. Inconsistent first layer, visible layer lines, adhesion on the bo...
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Consider printing an architectural scale model, a custom furniture part or a large working tool, projects in meters, not millimeters. The vision is electrifying, but the conventional hardware of 3D printing usually stalls at one point the speed. Welc...
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Large-scale 3D printers hold the potential to unlock an unmatched capacity of large prototypes, tooling, and finished parts to be manufactured within a printing session. But such a measurement invariably raises unstopped headaches, and the adhesion o...
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In the modern world, businesses need to find new ways to make their supply chain more efficient. They are doing this partly by using large industrial 3D machines for printing big size. Such machines have had a profound impact on the production and sh...
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