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Additive Manufacturing Technologies. Comparatif 3D printers. Drones At Home — How to print a drone in 5 easy steps. 3D news. 3D Print Events. Amazon se met à l’impression 3D. Le géant de l’e-commerce dévoile sa boutique en ligne dédiée à l’impression 3D. Si il ne s’agit que d’une vitrine, permettant de passer commande à des sous-traitants (dont le français Sculpteo), les ambitions d’Amazon pourraient aller au-delà de la simple dimension logistique.

Après ses incursions dans le milieu du mobile ou encore de la télévision par Internet, Amazon revient à la vente en ligne. L’entreprise de Jeff Bezos a lancé lundi sa boutique dédiée à l’impression 3D. Il ne s’agit pas d’acheter des imprimantes 3D mais des objets imprimés. Bijoux, étuis pour smartphones, mugs, jouets… le catalogue est pour l’heure limité à quelques centaines d’objets provenant de différents sous-traitants. Parmi eux, le Français Sculpteo. « Nous sommes ravis de voir qu’Amazon prenne part au mouvement de l’impression 3D, et nous sommes convaincus que cela offrira de nouvelles opportunités aux designers utilisant l’impression 3D » a déclaré Clément Moreau, co-fondateur de Sculpteo. L'impression 3D made in France par Phidias Technologies et Groupe Gorgé. Avec le rachat en mai dernier de Phidias Technologies, la société française Groupe Gorgé entend jouer un rôle majeur dans la révolution industrielle de l’impression 3D.

A l’occasion de ce rapprochement Phidias Technologies vient d’annoncer la sortie de sa nouvelle gamme d’imprimantes 3D dénommées Prodways. Raphaël Gorgé, CEO de Groupe Gorgé et André –Luc Allanic, fondateur de Phidias Technologies Phidias Technologies est un fabricant français d’imprimantes 3D basées sur la technologie MOVINGLight® qui combine une source de lumière à base de LED à forte puissance et des puces micro-électroniques (DLP). Le processus de fabrication de type DLP utilise une cuve de résine liquide exposée à la lumière depuis un projecteur DLP.

Lorsque la matière liquide exposée durcit, le processus se répète couche par couche, exposant le polymère liquide à la lumière. . « Nos machines peuvent produire des centaines de petites pièces en quelques heures avec une résolution inférieure à 35 microns. The 3Doodler.

Api. Possible business models Depending on your preferred business model, i.materialise offers a choice of APIs appropriate for you. The range of possible business models extends between the following two options: the redirecting business model: your app/site uploads the model to the 3D printlab and your customer is redirected to the i.materialise website where they will proceed with the order. The primary API to use in this model is the ‘3D printlab connection’ API. This model requires minimal development work. White label business model: your app/site uploads the order directly to our server.

Your customer stays on your site to place the order. Getting access Most APIs require an API Code and a tool ID. The API Code and tool ID are provided by i.materialise after verifying your business needs. The API Code and tool ID need to be coupled to a registered i.materialise account. Please send an email to developers(at)i.materialise.com for requesting these codes. Sandbox server Materials catalog API. Leblox.com. Tinkercad - Mind to design in minutes. DEFCAD. Next Year's 3-D Printers Promise Big Things — Really Big Things | Wired Design. Shapeways - Make & Share Your Products with 3D Printing.

Top CAD Experts updates. 7 TED Talks on the wonder of 3D printing. From ordering movie tickets to booking a dentist appointment, mobile and web apps have made the tasks of daily life easier. But there are some things that an app can’t do. Standing in line at the pharmacy is one of them. Lee Cronin: Print your own medicineIn today’s talk, Lee Cronin asks: “Could we make a really cool universal chemistry set? In essence, could we app chemistry?” With his team of researchers at the University of Glasgow, Cronin has created a 3D printing application that allows scientists to print out laboratory equipment specific to the experiment they wish to run — something they’ve called “reactionware.” At TED, we love sharing stories of 3D printing and its rapidly developing power to make new things possible. Lisa Harouni: A primer on 3D printing So what exactly is 3D printing? Klaus Stadlmann: The world’s smallest 3D printer Klaus Stadlmann built the microprinter, the smallest 3D printer in the world.

David F. Guide to Open Source and Linux-Compatible 3D Printers (Linux.com) Movie Props, Costumes and Scale Models | the RPF. The Secret to High-Tech Armor in "Iron Man 2": 3D Printing on Demand. Share on Tumblr Email Bruce Wayne had to sweet-talk Morgan Freeman into girding his Bat-loins with heavy Bat-artillery, but Tony Stark, an engineering virtuoso himself, cajoled not a soul. In a case of life imitating art, the production team behind Stark’s iconic body armor relied on neither CGI nor gadget-minded elder statesmen, but a bleeding-edge prototyping technology commonly known as 3D printing. Legacy Effects , the film’s production company, fashioned Iron Man’s suit (and the one worn by his super-foe Whiplash) with a 3D printer by Objet Geometries . The printer uses an ink cartridge of powdered plastic to print an ultra-thin layer, which is then “cured” using ultraviolet light and swabbed with paint as a finishing touch. From concept to prototype, the process takes mere hours.

The printer uses an ink cartridge of powdered plastic to print an ultra-thin layer that is “cured” using UV light. + Press Release + Objet Geometries. GitHub Codes Up Computer-Less 3-D Printer Software | Wired Design. “Make Me” frees users from using dedicated computers with their 3-D printers. Photo: Courtesy GitHub GitHub, the popular and well-funded version-control company, is entering the 3-D printing market.

They aren’t jumping into the world of hardware (not yet at least), but instead are automating tedious workflow issues, namely printing parts without leaving a laptop tethered to the 3-D printer for hours at a time. Their solution, called Make Me, allows users to push files to the MakerBot via HTTP and monitor the build process via webcam. It’s a small feature, but valuable for environments where multiple users are keen to make use of a shared resource. The tool itself is a handy utility, but it also helps illuminate GitHub’s corporate culture.

What have they printed? Some have asked if a 3-D printer is “necessary” or anything more than a toy at a company like GitHub, to which Holman responded on Hacker News: SketchUp. 3D Design Software 101. 3D Design Software 101 While MakerBot operators are more than happy to print the tens of thousands of incredible objects posted to Thingiverse, eventually many want to get started designing models of their own. Your mission: to create a solid, manifold (watertight) STL-formatted file for importing into MakerWare or ReplicatorG. STL is the most widely used format for stereolithographic CAD files, so the design application options are vast. ReplicatorG also offers experimental file import capability for OBJ and Collada, two other widely used formats, although the files are then converted to STL, and MakerWare supports OBJ as well as STL. You can also download 3D swiss army knife tools like MeshLab and netfabb Studio Basic, which can open dozens of different file formats and export them as binary or ASCII STL files, opening up even more models to ReplicatorG.

Choosing your Hammer To get started building a model, you'll need some good tools. On your mark, get set... Go! You aren't done yet! EOS Imaging, la pépite de l'année 2012. Introduction en Bourse, implantation en Asie, déploiement de sa force commerciale : en 2012, la PME parisienne a repoussé les frontières de l'imagerie médicale. Elle méritait bien d'être distinguée dans le cadre des Assises de l'industrie, organisées ce 17 octobre 2012, à Paris, par L'Usine Nouvelle. L'imagerie médicale moins irradiante d'EOS Imaging est née des travaux de W, le prix Nobel de physique 1992. Mais c'est Marie Meynadier, docteur en électronique, qui va la faire entrer dans les plus grands hôpitaux du monde. C'est elle qui va tracer la route de Biospace Instruments, la société créée par le physicien pour exploiter ses travaux sur la basse dose d'irradiation.

L'entreprise manquait d'une ligne directrice pour exploiter pleinement le potentiel de son invention. En 1999, Marie Meynadier dégage deux axes de développement : la recherche pharmaceutique et les solutions d'imagerie pour les radiologues. Ces dernières seront regroupées en 2007 dans une spin-off. 3D Haptic Design, Imaging and Metrology software. Microsoft Windows 8.1 “Blue” to Support 3D Printing. Microsoft Corp. this week announced that the Windows 8.1 update will have built-in support for 3D printing, making a 3D object on a PC will be as easy as writing a document in Word and sending it to print. With the new 3D printing support in Windows 8.1, thousands of app builders and device manufacturers can create easy-to-use 3D print experiences. 3D printing has been used for many years by car manufacturers, aerospace companies, toymakers, and a wide variety of large companies, including Microsoft, to rapidly make prototypes.

It enables manufacturers to model an object on a computer and print it using a variety of materials, from plastic to metal. And recently, the popularity of 3D printing has exploded among the Maker community, do-it-yourself hobbyists, inventors, and design enthusiasts, who are making everything from jewelry and purses to robotics components and games. There are a variety of techniques for 3D printing. 3D printers are just one type of 3D manufacturing device. Close. 10 Cool 3D Printing Startups. Printing electronic sensors using low-cost 3D printers. Nov.22, 2012 The University of Warwick researchers have created a simple and inexpensive conductive plastic composite that can be used to produce electronic devices using the latest generation of low-cost 3D printers designed for use by hobbyists and even in the home.

(Image credit: The University of Warwick) The material, nicknamed 'carbomorph', enables users to lay down electronic tracks and sensors as part of a 3D printed structure – allowing the printer to create touch-sensitive areas for example, which can then be connected to a simple electronic circuit board. So far the team has used the material to print objects with embedded flex sensors or with touch-sensitive buttons such as computer game controllers or a mug which can tell how full it is. Characterisation of the conductive composite material produced. 3D printing of flex sensors. 3D printing of capacitive interface device. 3D printing of capacitive ‘smart’ vessel. This research is published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. From toys to cars - what will you make on a 3D printer? 3D Printing in F1 — 3DPI Talks to Robert Fernley from the Sahara Force India Team.

Best of 2012: 3D Printed Objects. Two thousand and twelve will probably be remembered as the year 3D printing broke into the mainstream. While 3D printers don’t yet compete with toasters or DVD players in the home, the dam on the consumer market has been breached as the number of lower priced, easy-to-use models–and those who use them–grows. Part of this trend surely comes from the ever-expanding catalog of 3D printed objects, from the useful to the fanciful. Printing chess pieces and busts of Stephen Colbert is nice, but the range of what people create with their printers grows by the day and in turn inspires others to model and print ever more striking/utilitarian/beautiful/ridiculous/amazing objects. What follows is a round-up of some of the more compelling items that came across our desks in 2012.

As I look at the list it strikes me that it represents a moment in time. 3D Printed Guitar While my friend who makes classical guitars from Brazilian rosewood might disagree, I think this is a beauty. Anatomica di Revolutis. 3D Printing: now printing food too. 3D Printing: now printing food too TNO demonstrated foodprinting using 3D printing methods during the Food Inspiration Days 2012 (Eindhoven, October 2012) and at the Gastronomy trade fair (Utrecht, November 2012). 3D printing is an innovative manufacturing process whereby an object is built up, layer by layer, from a 3D computer design, using for example, printing technology or lasers. These methods can be used for the production of objects made from a single type of material as well as combinations of materials in which each material is deposited, for instance, by a separate print head. An example of a 3D printing system with several print heads is the PrintValley machine recently developed by TNO.

This kind of technology will lead to new types of production systems for the manufacture of complex multi-material products. Food printing offers a range of potential benefits: Stratasys 3D Printing Analysis: The king of 3D printing. 3D printing is reshaping industries, especially manufacturing, as companies look to cut costs and make their own parts. Boeing has said it is using 3D printing to create more than 20,000 airplane components, and hopes to make wings one day using 3D printers. Stratasys is at the forefront of the industry, and it’s only poised to get bigger. Stratasys is benefiting from Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), which is the most cost-effect way to do 3D printing. FDM is also one of the “most popular additive manufacturing technology to date,” according to Deutsche Bank analyst Sherry Scribner.

Not only is Stratasys benefiting from FDM, it’s continuing to expand its lead in the space, buying other companies, to expand its hold on the nascent space. Stratasys recently bought Objet, and purchased Makerbot, the popular Brooklyn-based 3D printing company earlier this year for $403 million to solidify its position in the consumer space. 3DISON. Home - MakiBox - Think Inside The Box. Get Blender. Consumer Technology is Doomed! Manufacturing The Future: 10 Trends To Come In 3D Printing. Www.fona.de/mediathek/gek/vortraege/eroeffnung_rifkin_jeremy_01_presentation_ge2012.pdf. Manufacturing: The third industrial revolution. THE first industrial revolution began in Britain in the late 18th century, with the mechanisation of the textile industry. Tasks previously done laboriously by hand in hundreds of weavers' cottages were brought together in a single cotton mill, and the factory was born. The second industrial revolution came in the early 20th century, when Henry Ford mastered the moving assembly line and ushered in the age of mass production.

The first two industrial revolutions made people richer and more urban. Now a third revolution is under way. Manufacturing is going digital. As this week's special report argues, this could change not just business, but much else besides. A number of remarkable technologies are converging: clever software, novel materials, more dexterous robots, new processes (notably three-dimensional printing) and a whole range of web-based services.

Towards a third dimension The old way of making things involved taking lots of parts and screwing or welding them together. 10 Incredible 3-D Printed Products. Solar-powered 3-D printer prints glass from sand. A Desktop Machine To Turn Your Old Plastic Into 3-D Printing Fodder. In that not-too-far-off day in the future when we’re all using 3-D printers to make new organs, bones, pieces of food, and so on, we may look back and thank Tyler McNaney, a second-year mechanical engineering major at Vermont Technical College who created the Filabot--a "3-D plastic extrusion system" that takes recyclable plastic and turns it into filament for 3-D printers. If you want to buy a kilogram of 3-D printer filament today--usable in 3-D printers like the MakerBot--it will cost you about $50.

But all those plastic soda bottles, detergent bottles, and other pieces of product packaging that you recycle every week? Those are basically free. McNaney’s machine takes any recyclable plastic and grinds, melts, and extrudes it so that it can be rolled onto a spool for 3-D printing. According to McNaney’s Kickstarter video, the machine can make eight feet of filament from a milk jug and detergent bottle. Plastic recycling and extrusion have been around since plastic was invented. L’imprimante 3D fait son cinéma. Pourquoi l'imprimante 3D va révolutionner l'industrie - Business. A new twist for animated movies--3D printed characters. Comment imprimer des objets chez soi : Après les TIC, voici les MUP ! par Joël de Rosnay. 3D Printer Stocks and 3D Printing Investments.

IDC Manufacturing Insights to Reveal Top 10 Predictions for 2013 | RoboticsTomorrow Press Release. Finance: Track your portfolio & the market for free. Dc.mit.edu/sites/dc.mit.edu/files/Econ Special Rpt Manufactur.pdf. Arkema Presents its Various Materials for “Additive Manufacturing” and Molding Technologies at the EuroMold Trade Show. Namii.org. 3D Printing Stocks are Hot: Top Public Companies Up 180% Over 6 Months. 3D Printing: A Money Goldmine? 3D Printing Industry Will Reach $3.1 Billion Worldwide by 2016. Wohlers Report 2012 Table of Contents. 3D Printing and the Rise of the Makers. 3D printer. 3D printer. Imprimantes 3D Dimension, prototypage et fabrication rapide, impression 3D.