News about happenings in the world CAD marketplace
This talk of how guns made on a 3D printer may be true, but is wearing our minds thin. It’s time to focus our attention away from that grim reality to a related 3D printing aspect that warms our hearts: the use of 3D printing for surgical prosthetics. Two recent applications in this area caught…
Not only made, but fired. Several times. The firearm was made by a company called Solid Concepts, Inc., a US-based provider of 3D printing services. But don’t tear your hair out in despair, because the equipment needed for 3D printing metal is beyond the means of the casual consumer. It costs $850,000. It uses a…
3D printers have picked up momentum and it will be no wonder if you soon find a 3D print shop in your locality. We have already written several blog posts regarding 3D printers and are now going to explain how we prepare a model for 3D printing. The Steps 1. Create the 3D model using…
Everyone knows that 3D printing is the technology of the moment all over the planet. But who would have thought its popularity will soon spread beyond the planet? NASA is planning to put a 3D printer in space. Not on its own, of course, but along with the astronauts in the International Space Station (ISS)….
Very soon you will be able to get 3D printing done at any neighborhood print shop. UPS, for instance, has just announced its store at Menlo Park will be offering the service from this week onwards (read news report). For those of us who did not see the trend coming, tsk, tsk. It is, after…
