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.
Vacuum forming tools are an application that is usually overlooked when exploring production tooling using additive manufacturing. If you are looking for a quick tool to pull just a few prototypes, or if you are looking for short-run production tooling, this may be the application for you. I have … [Read more...] about How and Why You Should Be Vacuum Forming Your 3D Printed Parts
Over the past few years, Markforged has aimed to develop materials that open doors to new applications for their users. One such example is Onyx FR, a material capable of self-extinguishing at thicknesses of 3mm or greater. Now, Markforged is continuing this trend by launching Onyx ESD, or … [Read more...] about Introducing Onyx ESD for Markforged Industrial Series 3D Printers
HP has made a great expansion to their Jet Fusion material portfolio with the announcement of Polypropylene (PP) for the 5200 this year. PP is one of the most widely used injection molded materials in the world; second only to Polyethylene (PE). This material has some key advantages that make it a … [Read more...] about The Benefits of Polypropylene for HP Jet Fusion Technology
You may have heard talk of polishing Markforged Metal X parts but haven’t actually seen a sample part, much less how this can be accomplished. In today’s blog post, we are going to remove the veil and show you how to achieve a near-mirror like surface finish on your Markforged Metal X … [Read more...] about The Secret to Polishing Markforged Metal X Parts Like a Pro
A compliant mechanism is a flexible device that achieves force and motion transmission through elastic body deformation. A compliant mechanism gains its motion from the relative flexibility of its members rather than from rigid-body joints. The fact that a complaint mechanism uses the elasticity of … [Read more...] about Understanding a Compliant Mechanism Using SOLIDWORKS Simulation
Whether you’re looking to try SOLIDWORKS for your first time or you’ve used it in the past and want to try it again, SOLIDWORKS has options that allow you to take a test drive. Does SOLIDWORKS Have a Free Trial? Yes! With the SOLIDWORKS free trial, you can access the latest versions of … [Read more...] about 5 Frequently Asked Questions on the SOLIDWORKS Free Trial
This blog post will reveal how you can automatically generate serial numbers for your 3D printed parts using HP Jet Fusion and Materialise Magics. In an additive manufacturing environment, traceability is a big deal. How can you monitor when a part was made? What material or what revision was a … [Read more...] about Serialization of 3D Printed Parts with Materialise Magics and HP Jet Fusion
SOLIDWORKS Network Licensing (or SNL for short) relies on a lightweight server component to handout licenses to client PCs. As users load SOLIDWORKS products, the appropriate licenses are checked out from the license pool. When a user closes SOLIDWORKS or unloads an add-in such as SOLIDWORKS … [Read more...] about IT Considerations for SOLIDWORKS Network Licensing
