3D Printing the Real Thing
Would you like to improve the performance of your 3D Printings?
Day to day we read news about amazing developments created by 3D printing methods. At the picture, we are showing two 3D printed cars, the left one “The Blade” by Divergent 3D presented at CES 2017. This car is assembled by a combination of metal 3D Printed nodes (ultra-light aluminium structure) interconnected by ultralight carbon reinforced composite tubing for completing the internal structure resulting in a very lightweight vehicle. At the right, we have the Strati from Local Motors. In this case the chassis, internal pannels and other components are 3D printed using a carbon reinforced ABS filament.
For us who own and/or operate a 3D printer it can be sometimes challenging finding real world applications even though the hyper flexibility that this method offers. I have often heard: - “By now it is only possible 3D print toys” or “3D printers are expensive toys”. Mainly professionals from other specialties different than industrial/mechanical engineering, who could benefit in very diverse dimensions from the use of real applications of 3D printing have not discovered yet the real power behind this promising technology.
The materials selection is of capital importance for achieving quality results and at this point users can find a barrier to overcome. Every day new materials are being released to the market and the process of setting up a new material for 3D printing can be challenging if the process parameters involved are not understood in deep. For overcoming these barriers, we are offering a new Hands-On Course for 3D Printer operators that has been designed to provide insights about how to improve the performance of the 3D Printing tasks by widening the application´s palette. The Course will be launched for first time the next February 28th at Barcelona, Spain and the guided experimentation with different filaments is the main methodology. The course will also provide information about manufacturing problem-solving with 3D printers by materials and process parameters selection.
You can find more information about this course by clicking HERE.
For more Information about Divergent and Local Motors vehicles you can check these links: