Selective laser sintering | 3D Printer Plans. Once again Solid Concepts, the makers of the infamous 3D printed metal gun, have produced another amazing 3D printed product. Georgia based Area-I enlisted the help of Solid Concepts to create a 3D printed 737 scale model UAV using Selective Laser Sintering (SLS). 3D printed parts include the fuel tank, ailerons, control surfaces and flaps. SLS 3D Printing works via a bed of powdered nylon and a CO2 laser which sinters the nylon in consecutive layers until a final product is achieved. Before they began using Solid Concepts, Area-I hand-built PTERA (Prototype Technology Evaluation Research Aircraft) aircraft.
“before we had Solid Concepts build the ailerons out of SLS it took us 24 man-hours,” says CEO of Area-I Nick Alley. “When we grew the ailerons with SLS, they were designed, built and assembled on PTERA within three days. SLS is easy to work with, installs quickly, is efficient and, from an aesthetic standpoint, produces parts that are gorgeous.”
About Solid Concepts: Scade il brevetto, la stampante 3d costerà meno. Is 3D Printing Safe? or DIY Testing for HCN from ABS and Nylon 3D Print Material - Viewing Comments 1-40. Why copyright law won’t be able to keep up with the crazy world of 3D printing. If you’re trying to understand how existing intellectual property law applies to 3D printing, let me save you some time: It’s a complete mess. From top to bottom, 3D printing raises more legal questions than it answers. There are lots of companies making 3D printing hardware, even more companies offering online repositories of 3D designs, plenty of services that will print things for you, and almost zero precedent for disputes among them. From a legal standpoint, 3D printing is the Wild West.
While that may sound liberating for such a young industry, it’s also potentially dangerous. There’s a very real chance that the lack of any regulation could be replaced with bad regulation. And that could have some dire effects on the whole industry. “Copyright precedents are created one case at a time, and eventually they can lead to the accretion of copyright expansion in a way that was never intended,” Public Knowledge attorney Michael Weinberg said. How bad could it get?
Disney Lets Fans 3D Print Themselves As Star Wars Stormtroopers. Enthusiasts are being given the chance to have their face on a figurine. As part of Disney‘s Star Wars Weekends event (running each weekend from May 17th to June 9th), it is giving fans the chance to put their face on a 3D printed Stormtrooper figurine. The D-Tech Me experience at Disney’s Hollywood Studios uses a high resolution single-shot 3D face scanner created by Disney Research labs.
The 10-minute experience captures an image of the fan, which is later sent to a high resolution 3D printer to create a figurine. The completed figurine will arrive 7-8 weeks after the experience if shipping domestically (a little longer if shipping internationally). The Star Wars D-Tech Me experience is $99.95, plus shipping and applicable sales tax. Disney. Www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/inta/re/929/929186/929186fr.pdf. Www.publicknowledge.org/files/docs/3DPrintingPaperPublicKnowledge.pdf. What's the Deal with Copyright and 3D Printing? Crowdsourcing Prior Art to Defeat 3D Printing Patent Applications. The America Invents Act changed U.S. patent law to allow preissuance submissions, a mechanism by which third parties can submit patents or printed publications to the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) for consideration during patent examination, along with “a concise description of the asserted relevance of each submitted document.” [2] The U.S.
Congress intended preissuance submissions to help the USPTO increase the efficiency of examination and the quality of issued patents. [3] Congress did not, however, intend the use of this mechanism to interfere with patent examination. [4] Nor did it intend preissuance submissions to allow for third party protest or preissuance opposition. [5] Yet a segment of the 3D printing (3DP) community, known as Makers, is using preissuance submissions as a sword to oppose 3DP-related patent applications. People can and are using 3D printers to make just about anything. . [3] See statement of Senator Hatch, 157 Cong. Rec. S1097 (daily ed.