Design

Lightweighting

3D Printed Tennis Racket Serves a Collaborative Win

The collaboration between All Design Lab and Protolabs led to the creation of a 3D printed tennis racket via direct metal laser sintering, called Hìtëkw. This project not only pushed the limits of additive in terms of design capabilities but revealed how important active communication between customer and manufacturer can be for a project’s success.

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Medical & Dental

Ultra-Complex 3D Printed Scaffolds Enable Cell Growth: The Cool Parts Show #70

Perhaps the ultimate surface-area challenge is in bioengineering: creating structures that can grow sufficient cells within a compact volume to be effective for leading-edge medical treatments. The Southwest Research Institute develops bioreactor scaffolds that could only be made using 3D printing.

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Tooling

7 Things You’ll Learn at the NPE2024 3D Printing Workshop

Are you a molder, toolmaker or OEM looking to adopt 3D printing? Here are 7 lessons about this technology that will be explored during a workshop at NPE2024: The Plastics Show.

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Polymer

GRM Develops Software for OverHiPP Project to Improve Accuracy of Digital Twins

As part of an OverHiPP study, GRM has created software that enables users to virtually model and analyze 3D printed structures at a level of detail never seen before — an accurate digital twin can now be generated, enabling precise design decisions to be made.

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Design

Study Indicates AM Users Familiar with Generative Design More Open to Pivoting Production

A paper published by Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) found that firms with generative design experience were more agile in pivoting to make pandemic-response items, regardless of whether they applied these design tools to do so.

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Design

Voxel Developing AI Alternative to Generative Design

Newly opened Ohio facility is where geometric cells are made and tested to inform the machine learning system that will “know,” without computation, what 3D printed form satisfies a given set of needs.

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Basics

Implicit Modeling for Additive Manufacturing

Some software tools now use this modeling strategy as opposed to explicit methods of representing geometry. Here’s how it works, and why it matters for additive manufacturing. 

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Software

Spherene Creates Metamaterial with Geometry Derived from Spheres

An algorithm developed by Spherene Inc. generates Adaptive Density Minimal Surfaces (ADMS) as a self-supporting infill strategy that can be used to reduce mass and manage material properties in 3D printed parts.

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Software

Markforged’s Performance Advisor Accelerates, Simplifies Part Simulation

Markforged’s Performance Advisor technology is use-case independent while being able to fully automate and optimize the performance of a part.

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Design

Wilson Plans to Sell Customizable Airless, 3D Printed Basketball

This limited-edition Wilson Airless Gen1 basketball offering enhanced customization and color options will be available for purchase on Feb. 16.

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