Stratasys provides a 30 min Webinar on AM using FDM Technology on Thursday 27th of January 2011.
Content will be:
- How additive manufacturing can help designers create better products.
- Why additive manufacturing gets products to market faster and cheaper.
- How companies like: BMW, GM and Boeing use additive manufacturing.
- What’s in store for additive manufacturing in the future.
Rhodia is announcing their upcoming launch of polyamide (PA) powders for selective laser sintering (SLS). This is the first time that PA 6 powders are offered for direct part fabrication by SLS. The range will be extended to include PA 66 powders in the coming months. Studies will show how good part properties and the processability of the material will be.
Rhodia hat die Markteinführung von ihren Polyamidpulvern (PA-Pulvern) für das Selektive Lasersintern (SLS) angekündigt. Damit werden nach Anbieterangaben zum ersten Mal PA-6-Pulver für die direkte Teilefertigung per SLS erhältlich sein. In den kommenden Monaten soll das Angebot zudem auf PA-66-Pulver ausgeweitet werden. Studien werden zeigen, wie gut die Bauteileigenschaften und die Verarbeitbarkeit des Materials sind.
Besides BitsFromBytes a new company sells Fabber for a low price.
They and the built models look quite nice an promising!
Andrew Werby has a nice report of the Rapid 2010 Show online at his ComputerSculpture Blog.
Have fun reading it….
I would like to take the opportunity to introduce you the RTejournal, an open access electronic magazine, which publishes articles from the field of generative or additive manufacturing. Publication language is German and English. Submitted articles must correspond to the publishing guidelines; they will be peer-reviewed by members of the journal’s editorial board. There are loads of information for everybody who wants to inform himself about those technologies. The are in general of high quality and due to the open access everybody can read them. Additionally there is a nice archive of images and videos about the different technologies.
Don’t forget to participate at the third International Conference on Additive Technologies, iCAT 2010. This conference is dedicated to the emerging field of “Rapid technologies”, and their applications. This year’s special topics include Medical applications, design for RM and Education with Hands-on-prototypes. The conference is one of the specialized DAAAM conferences (www.daaam.com). This year it will take place in Nova Gorica (Slovenia) from 22nd till 24th September, 2010.
The new book Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Rapid Prototyping to Direct Digital Manufacturing deals with various aspects of joining materials in general layer-wise to form parts. Authors Ian Gibson, David W. Rosen and Brent Stucker explain these issues, as well as: Providing a comprehensive overview of AM technologies plus descriptions of support technologies like software systems and post-processing approaches. Discussing the wide variety of new and emerging applications like micro-scale AM, medical applications, direct write electronics and Direct Digital Manufacturing of end-use components Introducing systematic solutions for process selection and design for AM Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Rapid Prototyping to Direct Digital Manufacturing is a new book for researchers, students, practicing engineers, entrepreneurs, and manufacturing industry professionals interested in additive manufacturing.
TOC:Introduction and Basic Principles.- Development of Additive Manufacturing Technology.- Generalized Additive Manufacturing Process Chain.- Photopolymerization Processes.- Powder Bed Fusion Processes.- Extrusion-Based Systems.- Printing Processes.- Sheet Lamination Processes.- Beam Deposition Processes.- Direct Write Technologies.- Design for Additive Manufacturing.- Guidelines for Process Selection.- Software Issues for Additive Manufacturing.- Direct Digital Manufacturing.- Medical Applications for Additive Manufacture.- Post-Processing.- The Use of Multiple Materials in Additive Manufacturing.- Business Opportunities and Future Directions.
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There are first attempts done to realize a support material head or two colour extrusion on a RapMan. The print has been done on a V3 machine fitted with twin extruders. The two single colour objects were printed together from one file, the two colour object by swapping heads through the build, changes triggered by G_Code.
You can see the potential for running support material along with the main print, swapping seamlessly back and fourth between the two.
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