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LEGO joins Women in 3D Printing as corporate member Posted: 03 Apr 2022 09:09 AM PDT LEGO is partnering with Wi3DP in direct response to a growing need for more women in its ever-expanding LEGO AD&M team. As a fast-growing organization, Wi3DP was identified as an … The post LEGO joins Women in 3D Printing as corporate member appeared first on 3D Printing Media Network - The Pulse of the AM Industry.

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3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: April 3, 2022 Posted: 03 Apr 2022 05:30 AM PDT While there aren’t quite as many webinars and events this week, don’t think the industry is any less busy—the AMUG 2022 Conference is kicking off today! There are several other conferences going on this week as well, along with a few mobile tours and webinars. Keep reading for all the details! AMUG 2022 Conference First up, the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) Education & Training Conference is happening this week in Chicago, Illinois, from April 3rd through the 7th. The conference, held at the Hilton Chicago Hotel, will feature two keynotes, more than 160 additional presentations, multiple workshops and training labs, a Technical Competition, 120 exhibitors, an Innovators Showcase, and five jam-packed days of networking and education. Not only will attendees learn a lot at the conference, but the offsite dinner on the second night is also typically the stuff of legends. If you need another reason to attend, 3DPrint.com’s Editor in Chief Michael Molitch-Hou will be there as well! “Experience our open, inviting atmosphere that promotes conversations and networking. Novices and experts will walk away with insights, information and professional contacts.” You can register for AMUG 2022 here. SPEE3D at Sea-Air-Space From April 4-6, Sea-Air-Space, powered by the Navy League of the United States, will be held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Maryland. This is the largest maritime expo in the US for the leading defense industry and military decision-makers in sea services. Exhibitors and attendees will experience professional development opportunities, multiple keynote speakers, networking opportunities, guided VIP tours of the exhibit floor, and more. Speaking of exhibitors, SPEE3D will be exhibiting at the event alongside Team Defence Australia. “Sea-Air-Space brings the U.S. defense industry and key military decision-makers together for three days of informative educational sessions, important policy discussions and a dynamic exhibit hall floor.” You can register for Sea-Air-Space here. 37th Space Symposium SPEE3D will also be exhibiting with Team Defence Australia at the 37th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs from April 4-7. This is the premier event for global space professionals, and attendees are from every related sector, including space agencies and commercial space businesses, military and intelligence organizations, federal and state government agencies, think tanks, R&D facilities, educational institutions, and more. By bringing all of these groups together in the same place, the Space Symposium offers a unique opportunity to promote dialogue, focus on critical space issues, and examine these issues from multiple perspectives. “Bringing together leaders from commercial, government and military space from around the world, the Space Symposium provides a forum to discuss, address and plan for future achievements in space. The Space Symposium program delivers exclusive networking and engagement opportunities with influential participants in one convenient and extraordinary venue. Space Symposium luncheons and dinners provide additional contact with influential participants.” You can register for the symposium here. The Experience Stratasys Tour Stratasys is taking its mobile showroom back on the road with the Experience Tour, offering you a convenient, local way to talk with the company’s experts and see its latest 3D printers, materials, and other solutions. The tour is coming to Texas this week, with the experience hosted by CATI at Topgolf in Fort Worth on Monday, April 4th; hosted by and at the GoEngineer office in Carrollton on Tuesday, April 5th; and hosted by PADT at Topgolf in Austin on Thursday, April 7th. “Learn about additive manufacturing services from Stratasys Direct and discover how your organization can benefit from 3D printing applications. Exclusive experiences are offered – sign up for your VIP tour below.” You can register for the Stratasys Experience Tour here. Stay tuned for more dates and locations in the future! MACH 2022 From April 4-8, the MACH 2022 Exhibition will be held at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham. Organized by The Manufacturing Technologies Association, 25,000 attendees from technology suppliers, OEMs, and manufacturers are said to be coming. The key theme of this year’s exhibition is additive manufacturing, and several AM industry companies, including Materialise and the Digital Manufacturing Centre (DMC), will be attending MACH 2022. “Entry is free of charge and once inside the exhibition halls you'll find the UK’s latest and best metal forming, metalworking and manufacturing technologies. For 2022 we have a hugely extended IT for Manufacturing Zone and 3D Printing Zones and with many other zones covering metrology through rapid manufacturing to welding and beyond, no other UK exhibition offers you such a comprehensive overview of the manufacturing technologies industry and of course 6,000 tonnes of live working machinery demonstrating the best technologies in metal cutting and metal forming.” You can register for MACH 2022 here. CAMWorks Beyond the Toolpath Series CAMWorks by HCL Technologies is continuing its Beyond the Toolpath webinar series this week, with “Digital shop floor for smart manufacturing.” Presented by Marc Bissell, Sr. Technical Analyst, HCL Americas Inc., attendees will learn how to virtually check programs on the shop floor, leverage digital machining data in part models to reduce errors, quickly generate setup sheets, and more. The session for the Americas will be held at 8 am PDT on April 5th, while the EMEA session will take place at 10 am CEST on the 5th. The APAC webinar will occur at 4 pm IST on the 5th. “Please join us for the third webinar of the CAMWorks Beyond the Toolpath series, where we will discuss the many benefits of digital documentation and how to generate and use these in your manufacturing processes.” Design & 3D Print a Radar Target At 11 am EST on the 5th, Ansys is holding a webinar on “How to Design and 3D Print a Radar Target Using Low-Loss Gradient Dielectrics.” Attendees will learn how CTI used the HFSS solution by Ansys and Fortify‘s 3D printing, along with Rogers Corporation‘s new Radix low-loss printable dielectric, to design quick-turn mission-specific RF devices with spatially varying properties. Speakers will be CTI’s Nicholas Hahn; Fortify’s Philip Lambert; and Jeff Tharp with Ansys. “3D-printed microwave lenses are a commercially viable option for RF devices deployed in the field. When a mission-specific radar target signature is required quickly, a Luneburg-style lens can be configured as a wideband retroreflector to tailor the signal received by threat radars.” You can register for the webinar here. Markforged Completes AM Digital Demo Days This week, Markforged will complete its series of virtual Additive Manufacturing Digital Days to demonstrate its composite systems and Digital Forge platform for industrial 3D printing. Attendees will learn how to find cost of manufacturing, determine print orientation, scale the part file, master Continuous Fiber Reinforcement (CFR), and more. The session for the Americas East & Southeast, on Wednesday, April 6th, will be hosted by the Phillips Corporation. “Join Markforged and our partners to learn how Markforged composite 3D printers can make a difference for your company. Learn more about the Digital Forge, the platform that prints industrial parts at the speed of software. “Experience the 3D printing process from design to manufacture and be eligible for a free printed part!” TriMech Tips & Tricks on Drawing Finally, TriMech is holding a webinar on “Tips & Tricks: Drawings” at 10 am EST on the 7th. TriMech Process and Training Consultant Lynette Proch will teach attendees several tips and tricks for drawing in SOLIDWORKS. For instance, she’ll teach you how to use tools like Rapid Dimensions and Auto Arrange Dimensions to create neater drawings, and how to add Geometric Tolerancing to your views in order to see some of the changes to these features in SOLIDWORKS 2022. Other topics include Bill of Materials (BOMs), Detailing Mode, and more. “In SOLIDWORKS, drawings are the main way we communicate our designs and take them from the design phase to actual production. Although there are some initiatives moving toward a drawingless environment, most clients will still rely on drawings. Are you familiar with all the different ways you can work with drawings in SOLIDWORKS?” You can register for the webinar here. Do you have news to share about any future webinars or virtual and live events? Please let us know! The post 3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: April 3, 2022 appeared first on 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing.

3D Printing News Briefs, April 2, 2022: Business, Research, Shoes, & More Posted: 02 Apr 2022 05:30 AM PDT In 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting with business today, as UpNano announced it is expanding to the US. Then we’ve got news about medical 3D printing, aerospace 3D printing, and offshore 3D printing. A team of researchers from Europe experimented with adding recycled glass to cement composites to print buildings. Finally, a German designer and architect designed a strange-looking shoe designed to be 3D printed out of flexible TPE using Sintratec’s laser sintering technology. UpNano Expanding to the US First up, TU Wien spinout UpNano GmbH, a leader in two-photon polymerization (2PP), announced that it will be expanding its operations to the United States. The move is due to the Austrian company’s solid financial position and strong interest from the US market, as it’s reporting a year in which sales have tripled. The tech company’s NanoOne series of laser-powered 2PP 3D printers are said to be capable of printing structures at high speed and high resolution across 12 orders of magnitude. As part of the expansion, Erika Bechtold, PhD, currently the Director of Technology Commercialization at Harvard's Office for Technology Development, supporting the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, will serve as Vice President of US Operations in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Bechtold has over ten years of business development and commercial strategy experience that she brings to the position. “I am so impressed with the NanoOne systems that the team has built. UpNano is at a pivotal time of growth, and I'm excited to be joining the team to help promote this commercial-stage system in the US. It's such a great opportunity at a time of noticeable growth in the 2PP 3D-printing markets,” said Dr. Bechtold. Extol Gets FDA Registration for Contract Manufacturing of 3D Printed Medical Devices Spentys orthoses manufactured by Extol Digital manufacturing technology company Extol, Inc. announced that it has received FDA registration for turnkey contract manufacturing of 3D printed medical devices. This newly obtained registration from the FDA will make it possible for Extol to expand its 3D printed offerings for the life sciences industry. The company will likely see an immediate positive impact in its ability to offer complete 3D printed solutions for medical devices in the orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) market. In addition to 3D printing, Extol will also offer post-processing, final assembly, and order fulfillment of finished medical devices. As Kyle Harvey, Extol's Business Unit Manager for Additive Manufacturing, explained, “Digital manufacturing with 3D printing is disrupting the way people make products in nearly every industry. “Digital transformation is well underway in the O&P industry to create better outcomes for patients using the medical devices. We are very excited to support O&P partners and practitioners who are investing in digital workflows.” Aurora Labs’ Campaign to Demonstrate Metal 3D Printing for Aerospace Standards Gland followers 3D printed using 4-laser 1.5kW parameter sets on the RMP-1 Beta Australian industrial technology company Aurora Labs announced a new Print Demonstration Campaign, in which the metal 3D printer it’s developing will operate for 1,000 hours in less than three months. This will demonstrate that the company’s Beta prototype printer, subsystems, and architecture can meet the exacting standards for draft SAE international aerospace printing specifications AMS7039 and AMS7032. The project is endorsed by The Barnes Global Advisors, which has offered analysis and consultation during the commercialization phase. The four-phase project, consisting of 24 builds, will print 316L stainless steel parts, which will then undergo a variety of metallurgical, mechanical, radiographic, and chemical tests. The results of the over 500 test specimens must be consistent and repeatable across all four phases. “We look forward to completing the demonstration campaign and sharing the results with prospective clients, partners and the wider AM community. A positive result will validate our capability for a wide range of industry applications that Aurora is pursuing, not just limited to aerospace,” said Peter Snowsill, the CEO of Aurora Labs. “Demonstrating A3D's technology methodically with careful data collection is an important part of our commercialisation strategy, adding to a bank of information that can be shared with prospective partners. The results will also assist in securing contract printing clients as we promote print services to local industry. We are confident of achieving success and look forward to presenting the outcomes.” Woodside Activates 3D Printed Valve on Offshore Platform Offshore staff Another Australian company, Woodside Energy, has installed and activated a 3D printed valve on its offshore Goodwyn A platform, which is part of its North West Shelf (NWS) project. The FutureLab at Monash University helped redesign a stainless steel monoflange body for 3D printing, which was approved for pressure-containing critical service use. The part is a double block and bleed valve used to safely isolate instruments during maintenance work, and Woodside said the improved design increased flowthrough by avoiding restricting channel junctions. The company will next focus on a 3D printed steel inducer on the FPSO Okha platform at the NWS complex. “It can be energy intensive, time consuming and expensive to source replacements for such parts,” said Woodside Energy’s Executive Vice President–Sustainability, Shaun Gregory, about how 3D printing can help solve problems when it comes to replacing parts that OEMs can no longer supply. Researchers 3D Printing Cementitious Composites with Recycled Glass Printing process of specimens (a) and (b) and flexural strength determination (c). A team of researchers from the Technical University of Berlin and Brunel University in London recently published a paper about their work using recycled glass as a component of concrete for 3D printing buildings. Their hope is to lower the significant environmental impact of concrete, as the construction industry creates about 35% of all global landfill waste. Concrete is made of water, cement, and aggregates like sand, so the team replaced up to 100% of the aggregate in their mix with glass, which is easy to recycle and actually produced from sand. They crushed soda-lime glass bottles from a local recycling company, and then washed, dried, milled, and sieved the pieces to make concrete. The team successfully 3D printed wall elements and prefab building blocks out of their cementitious composite material. They also took pains to make their material more sustainable: the type of glass they used has increased thermal conductivity; they replaced some Portland cement with less hazardous limestone powder; and they added lightweight fillers to reduce the concrete’s density. “The presence of glass does not only solve the problem of waste but also contributes to the development of a concrete with superior properties than that containing natural sand. If used in this way, waste glass can find a new life as part of a construction material,” wrote Seyed Ghaffar Medhi Chougan and Pawel Sikora, two of the co-authors. “Our research shows that an ultra-lightweight, well insulated 3D building is possible – something that could be a vital step on our mission towards net zero.” Unique 3D Printed Shoes Make Bigfoot Tracks Finally, I bet you’ve never seen anything quite like the Cryptide sneaker—fully 3D printed footwear with soles that make tracks like Bigfoot would! German designer and architect Stephan Henrich created the shoe, which is obviously inspired by mythic Cryptid creatures, like the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot. Consisting of a sole with an open design, and combined with a thin upper shoe, these were laser sintered on the Sintratec S2 printer out of its flexible, rubber-like TPE elastomer. While it may look odd, the Cryptide shoe is more ergonomic, and also comfortable to wear, as Henrich varied the wall thickness to make some parts soft and flexible and other parts stiff. Henrich confirmed: “If you wear this shoe, you will leave traces like a cryptid would do.” The post 3D Printing News Briefs, April 2, 2022: Business, Research, Shoes, & More appeared first on 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing.

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• 3D printed kidney model used by robotic urologic oncology surgeon
• Microfluidic devices fabricated by researchers using 3D printing
• Raplas takes its SLA hardware to the next level

3D printed kidney model used by robotic urologic oncology surgeon Posted: 03 Apr 2022 02:36 AM PDT Renowned robotic urologic oncology surgeon Dipen J. Parekh, M.D., was the first in the USA to test a new preoperative surgical rehearsal technology recently approved by the Food and Drug … The post 3D printed kidney model used by robotic urologic oncology surgeon appeared first on 3D Printing Media Network - The Pulse of the AM Industry.

Microfluidic devices fabricated by researchers using 3D printing Posted: 02 Apr 2022 06:54 AM PDT Researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering have developed a highly specialized 3D printing technique (using vat photopolymerization technology) that allows microfluidic channels to be fabricated … The post Microfluidic devices fabricated by researchers using 3D printing appeared first on 3D Printing Media Network - The Pulse of the AM Industry.

Raplas takes its SLA hardware to the next level Posted: 02 Apr 2022 03:13 AM PDT Based in the UK—with offices in the US and Asia along with distributors around the world—Raplas is an additive equipment manufacturing company whose sights are very much set on production … The post Raplas takes its SLA hardware to the next level appeared first on 3D Printing Media Network - The Pulse of the AM Industry.

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