Materials thinking – Seat string a few things together for lace car Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 23, 2014 A lace ‘cover’ of the new Seat city car has us thinking about local production and materials It has no…
Metals 3D printing: Power of laser melting allows new materials control on a micro level Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 20, 2014 Using an Arcam electron beam melting system researchers say they can control the variations in crystallographic orientation in a nickel-based…
Composites: New computer model for testing aerospace materials to allow lightweight designs Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 24, 2014 Airbus has worked with Imperial College London to develop more accurate analysis models for its use of composites New computer…
Composites: MSC Digimat v5.1.1 launched with new solutions for efficient modeling of materials Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 23, 2014 FE meshing, solution and post-processing have all been integrated Understanding composite material behaviour is an increasingly needed skill for designers…
3D Printing: New machines in Stratasys Objet Connex range give three materials magic Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 8, 2014 Stratasys has expanded the Objet500 Connex range with two new 3D printers Stratasys has upgraded its Objet Connex range with…
Materials, IP and collaboration: International Conference for Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 25, 2014 The three key topics this year were IP, collaboration and materials The 9th International Conference for Additive Manufacturing and 3D…
Dell Precision M3800: materials R&D for the world’s thinnest mobile workstation Posted by Greg Corke - May 27, 2014 The Dell M3800 achieves its soft touch finish with a 0.5mm layer of silicone overmoulded on top of a lightweight…
Programming materials Posted by DEVELOP3D - May 21, 2013 For hundreds of years mankind has produced element parts before assembling them into products - why not build parts that…
3D Systems expands its online print choices to include ZPrinter and ProJet materials Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 25, 2012 Clarks find the ZPrinter technology beneficial for prototyping 3D Systems has announced the immediate availability of ZPrinter and ProJet 3D…
Granta releases full Eco Materials Adviser for Inventor Posted by Al Dean - October 3, 2011 WIth the Inventor 2012 release, Autodesk worked with materials specialists, Granta Design, to develop the Eco Materials Adviser – the…