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LFAM 4 Mar 2022

10 Ways Additive Manufacturing Reshapes a Production Facility (Forget What You Know About Factories)

Sintavia’s purpose-built facility for powder bed fusion of aircraft components illustrates fundamental ways the plant is different when 3D printing is the operation.

Mold Tooling 24 Dec 2021

BigRep Pro Large-Format Printer Designed for All Stages of Manufacturing

The company says the printer is versatile to enable the production of full-scale, large parts, including functional prototypes, factory tooling, patterns, molds and end-use parts.

Software 14 Dec 2021

BigRep, Teton Simulation Collaborate to Integrate SmartSlice into Large-Format 3D Printing

BigRep and Teton Simulation have partnered to bring the benefits of performance requirements-based validation and print parameter optimization to industrial large-format prints.

LFAM 10 Dec 2021

Thermwood Adds Angle Layer Printing to Large Scale Additive Manufacturing Systems

This third print orientation for its LSAM systems enables users the ability to print at a 45-degree angle.

Formnext 1 Dec 2021

10 Trends from Formnext 2021

The largest trade show for additive manufacturing technology returned with an in-person format this November. Editors Peter Zelinski and Stephanie Hendrixson share sights and trends from the event.

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LFAM 18 Mar 2022

ABB Introduces Software Capabilities to Simplify Robot Programming for AM (Includes Video)

Slicer software output can be converted to a robot program. The user chooses speed and precision of printing, but no specialized knowledge of robot 3D printing is needed.

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Postprocessing 25 Nov 2021

Formlabs Launches Postprocessing Form Wash L, Form Cure L

The automated, postprocessing machines provide users with a streamlined workflow for large-format 3D printing.

Robots 19 Nov 2021

For Sustainable 3D Printed Architecture Think Renewable, Not Permanent

The design choices of today won’t be the trends of tomorrow. Aectual chooses to embrace changing tastes by making it easy to procure and recycle 3D printed architectural elements.

LFAM 10 Nov 2021

3D Printing at the Turn of Iten’s Century

This specialist in laminates, composites and plastics manufacturing will turn 100 years old in 2022. 3D printing in polymer will be part of the company’s next hundred years, leadership says.