3D Printing – the next five years, the “hidden” revolution and being “DAM” smart

Lee-Bath Nelson is VP Business at LEO Lane, a company she co-founded that offers brands a way to stay in control of the quality and quantity of their parts and products in the AM/DAM ecosystem.

Previously, she served as Corporate Director of Business Development at Orbotech. Prior to that she spent over a decade as a Partner in Venture Capital funds, most recently as a General Partner at Plenus Venture Lending and before that at TDA Capital Partners, a fund that was an early investor in Objet Geometries (now Stratasys).

She examines the future of 3D printing and advises us on the need to be smart about Additive Manufacturing.

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Hanging Tough with New Versions of Digital ABS Material

Objet Geometries (Rehovot, Israel) introduced the original Digital ABS material way back in 2011. Since then, the Digital ABS material has gone from strength to strength with more and more of Objet Connex customers swapping over to leverage this material’s excellent fit, form and functional properties. In the video below, you can see applicative Digital ABS Ivory models and rigid thin-walled models produced using Digital ABS2 – a new Digital Material option that’s available in both the green and ivory versions of the material.

ESTUDIO COMPARATIVO DE IMPRESORAS 3D

La firma T. A. Grimm & Associates, Inc. de Estados Unidos, ha realizado un estudio comparativo de seis equipos de impresión 3D. Los equipos son:

• Alaris30 (Objet Geometries)
• Designjet 3D (HP)
• ProJet SD 3000 (3D Systems)
• Sd300 Pro (Solido)
• V-Flash (3D Systems)
• uPrint (Stratasys)
• ZPrinter 310 Plus (Z Corporation)

La versión europea excluye el uPrint de Stratasys. La versión norteamericana excluye al Designjet 3D de HP. Ambas versiones están en inglés y se pueden descargar en: http://www.tagrimm.com/benchmark-2010/download_benchmark.html

La comparación se basa en las áreas siguientes:

Costos

• Costo de adquisición
• Costo anual
• Costo horario
• Costo del prototipo
• Costo efectivo de material

Tiempos

• Tiempo de máquina
• Tiempo total del proceso

Calidad

• Exactitud dimensional
• Terminación superficial
• Durabilidad/Funcionalidad