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Is additive the right way to go? Additive manufacturing
(AM) specialist company Materialise (materialise.com)
has developed a rather clever way to determine how
well suited a part being designed is to AM. Explains
Bar Van der Schueren, executive vice president, the
3DPrintBarometer application (3DPrintBarometer.com)
asks ���ve different questions about the part, each question
having a continuum between small and large, simple and
complex, few and many, and use.
��� Part size: from a ping pong
ball to a space hopper (one
of those toys that a child
sits on and bounces)
��� Part complexity: from no
undercuts to impossible to
mold in one piece
��� Project value
��� Series size: from 1 to over
10,000
��� Purpose: from functional to
visual
Make the selections and the
application processes the
information. The result is
expressed in a percentage of
how well the part lends itself to
3D printing.
Bigger parts done in one.
According to David Reis, CEO of
Stratasys (the company that is
the result of the merger between
Stratasys and Objet; stratasysfora3dworld.com), there are
some 14 million CAD seats in the world, of which some
���ve million are 3D CAD. There is a conversion of about
1 million seats of 2D to 3D annually. So, he concludes,
there is a greater demand for 3D printers as designers go
more 3D.
There is another capability that Reis says is of growing
interest: printing bigger parts.
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