The industry's top engineers, designers, and additive manufacturing experts offer their best advice, research, how-tos, and insights—all in the name of helping you level-up your 3D designs and engineering skills.
In a previous post titled "Getting the Most out of Your Markforged Composite 3D Printer," we looked at a few tips and tricks that can be used to enhance parts that are printed with Markforged systems. In today's blog, we’ll be going over several different options that can be used to add threads … [Read more...] about 6 Threading Options for Your Markforged 3D Printed Parts
Along with the other disciplines that fall under the banner of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), women have been vastly underrepresented in the field of engineering – with a dismal 13 percent of engineers being female. Despite the discrepancies in numbers, there are plenty of … [Read more...] about Meet Nikki Stakic: A Woman Breaking Engineering Barriers
Have you ever seen a colorful 3D printed part showing a stress analysis and wondered how they do it? We can show you how with the HP MJF 580 3D printer and SOLIDWORKS Simulation! With the ability to 3D print in color, many new opportunities are available for design and engineering teams to take … [Read more...] about 3D Printing Full-Color FEA Results Using HP and SOLIDWORKS
Hole-filling has always been present in Artec Studio, but new in Studio 14 is the Bridge option within the Fix Holes menu. This tool allows Artec 3D scanner users to constrain how holes are filled for more controlled results. In the example below, we have a hole in the emblem. The … [Read more...] about How to Fill Holes Using Bridges in Artec Studio
Many people have questions about the post-processors used in CAM systems, such as: What is a post-processor? Why are they frequently customized? How do you get your post-processor customized? How do you change the post you're using? We’re going to try to answer many of these common … [Read more...] about Frequently Asked Questions Regarding CAM Post-Processors
At Hawk Ridge Systems, in partnership with SOLIDWORKS, we’re looking to do whatever we can to minimize the inevitable disruption in this very difficult time, as many of us need to work from home due to the COVID-19/Coronavirus outbreak. We recently shared a comprehensive guide for Working From … [Read more...] about Work From Home During COVID-19 With SOLIDWORKS Temporary Licenses
As more of us are finding it necessary to work from home or other remote locations, it can be challenging to adapt to a different way of connecting with the business systems and colleagues that we’re used to interacting with every day. Within SOLIDWORKS tools, there’s a variety of things that can … [Read more...] about Working Remote? Use SOLIDWORKS Effectively With These Tips
Agricultural equipment. Cutting tools. Recreational vehicle parts. These are just a few of the varying products that DI Labs, a small digital manufacturing shop in Spicer, Minnesota, is involved in. Here, the 3D printers run 24 hours a day – constantly cranking out part prototypes and … [Read more...] about HP Expands Capabilities of Midwest Digital Manufacturing Shop
