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Registration Opens for Formnext Chicago: US Version of World’s Largest AM Trade Show

Additive manufacturing (AM) industry leaders are making plans to participate in the 2025 U.S. version of Formnext — the most successful additive show in the world, which brings together the whole industrial process of AM.

3MF File Format for Additive Manufacturing: More Than Geometry

The file format offers a less data-intensive way of recording part geometry, as well as details about build preparation, material, process and more.

Step 2 — A Stronger Foundation at Formnext Chicago

The North American additive manufacturing market needs a home – a foundation where the AM market can connect, innovate and grow by bringing together leaders in additive and industrial manufacturing.

Step 1 — Unmatched Audience at Formnext Chicago

Events are about audience! Formnext Chicago offers unmatched access to both existing additive manufacturing adopters AND industrial manufacturers that represent future AM growth.

Sustaining the Growth of Additive Manufacturing Through Market Development

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. 

Guha Manogharan Named Co-Director of Penn State’s Additive Manufacturing Center

Penn State’s Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition is an interdisciplinary research center that works to advance additive manufacturing and materials research.

NIOSH Publishes 3D Printing Safety Guide for Nonindustrial Settings

NIOSH has published a 3D printing safety guide for small businesses and other additive manufacturing users such as makerspace users, schools, libraries and small businesses.

Video: Intelligent Layering Metal 3D Printing at 3DEO

Contract manufacturer 3DEO delivers metal parts using Intelligent Layering, a binder jetting-like 3D printing process the company developed and operates internally. Here’s how it works. 

Copper, New Metal Printing Processes, Upgrades Based on Software and More from Formnext 2023: AM Radio #46

Formnext 2023 showed that additive manufacturing may be maturing, but it is certainly not stagnant. In this episode, we dive into observations around technology enhancements, new processes and materials, robots, sustainability and more trends from the show.