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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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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