3D Scanning

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  Mass Customization Measured By The Foot at Wiivv

  Wiivv enables customers to use a smart phone app to take pictures of their feet, generating up to 200 data points. The company then uses proprietary and commercial image processing techniques to prepare data for 3D printing of individualized athletic shoe insoles. As of early 2017, Wiivv is producing tens of thousands of customized insoles a year.

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  First Air-Worthy Metal 3D Printed RF Filter Ready for Take-Off

  The last two years (2015 and 2016) could be looked upon as the tipping point for direct metal printing (DMP) within the aerospace industry, as the technology increasingly made the jump beyond prototyping to production parts and assemblies ready for flight.

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  Life-Saving Acute Stroke Team Training

  According to the American Heart Association Annual Statistical Update based on data compiled from over 190 countries, stroke remains the number 2 cause of death in the world. In the US, stroke is the number 4 cause of death, killing nearly 129,000 people a year.

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  Vaupell Saves Time and Money on Investment Casting with 3D Systems

  Traditional investment casting—creating metal parts from a ceramic mold after a wax pattern has been burned away—has been around for more than 5,000 years. Over the last century, the process has benefited from many innovations, but it is still slow and costly to create this kind of tooling for complex parts.

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  3D Printing Productivity Drives R&D at Renault Sport Formula One Team

  Formula One racing is an endurance engineering sport fueled by relentless innovation. Teams work tirelessly to reach and beat an ever-evolving standard of peak performance, and the spirit is no different at Renault Sport Formula One Team. There, the research and development machine never stops and the contributions of technical partners play a cr…

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