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Have you ever been tempted by those metal 3D printing services? [Carter Hurd] has, and puts them to the test with a wristwatch. (Video, embedded below.) It’s fair to say that am ...
3D printing with metal filament from BASF Forward AM on the Epsilon 3D printer from BCN3D. BCN3D One broken screw can derail an entire manufacturing process. Run out of spares and you face a ...
In a 12-month trial of Spee3D’s metal 3D-printing technology, Australian Army soldiers fabricated parts like armored vehicle wheel-bearing covers and tested them in the field. Credit: Spee3D ...
Few fields have seen as much development in one year as that of 3D printing using virtually any material. Undoubtedly, the most dramatic and challenging has been printing with metal.
A mechanic could 3D print the part needed to fix your car while you wait at the shop. THE NEXT LEVEL. We can now 3D print pretty much anything from seemingly any material. Want to print a house ...
HP is trying to change that. In 2016, it launched its Jet Fusion plastic 3-D printer, designed for mass production rather than one-off printing. Now with the Metal Jet, it wants to get into big ...
Metal printing, though, is still in the realm of the exotic. A company called Iro3D is aiming to change that with a steel printer that you can buy in beta for about $5000.
Liquid metal printing (LMP) utilizes a bed of 100-micron glass beads to create a structure into which molten aluminum is deposited — a process not entirely dissimilar from injection molding.
At its core, “metal 3D printing” is a simplified term for a metal-based additive manufacturing process; primarily either Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) or Selective Laser Melting (SLM ...
Joris Laarman has created a free-standing 3D printing robot that creates beautiful metal sculptures with the graceful brush strokes of an artist. You may remember Laarman.