A chime’s brilliant bell was heard throughout the land. Long, deep and full of the ages when a hundreds hands had rung the bell before. The grass and branch bent in the wave, bowing, as if to say, ‘The toller’s sound, whispers around, and brings us all these links.’ Adam Martinakis – Wow to the…
2D Copy Centres are sooooo 2011. 3D Copy Centres – now that’s something I need. You know that feeling when you drafting a CAD model and you need it in your hand? And it’s 3am? And no one’s given you the new code to the Stratasys because you kept on 3D Printing what your boss called ‘unmentionable’? And you owe Shapeways because of that Paypal scam? Well fret no more, there’s a Staples around the corner and they do full-colour 3D Printing.
Ever wonder what 750 Engineers do to break up the monotony of designing the world’s most successful and innovative line of fans, vacuum cleaners and hand dryers? Battling each other in a design challenge is one way. You may remember the article we had about Jude Pullen and Cardboard Modelling. He works for Dyson and sent us the scoop on this year’s extracurricular innovation.
When you look in the mirror, fresh out of bed, and wonder what you’ll be scanning at 6 am, the face peering back may suddenly turn pale as the brain absorbs the blood and sends thoughts of patching and converting mesh data for days. The horror. Geomagic wants to end that scene and have you hopping into work with a sparkly song in your step. Their solution? Geomagic Spark. It brings point cloud, mesh, CAD modeling and 2D drawing together in one package. Oh, and that scan data is directly imported from the scanner.
Yes sir, it’s Euromold again and the big-wig 3D Printing companies have come out in force to strut their stuff and eye the competition. Although we theorize that these are merely rubber-band guns, it’s possible that Objet made a sword (rather, a golf club). They certainly have a machine of a size that is capable of doing so. Rumor has it that 3D Systems bought a company with their pocket change to tag-team Objet (who has Stratasys as a partner). But these are just rumors. Let’s look at the hard data!
