3D Systems

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  Designing a Custom Boot for an Injured Penguin

  Despite their tuxedoed appearance, penguins aren’t always well mannered. In the aftermath of one particular penguin scuffle among endangered African Penguins at Mystic Aquarium, Yellow/Purple (AKA “Purps”) was found to have a nonfunctional flexor tendon in her ankle. Much like an injury to a person’s Achilles heel, damage to a penguin’s flex…

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  Starburns Industries Uses 3D Printing to Bring Greater Realism to Anomalisa Character

  The range of expressive humanity achieved in the film was made possible by the high-resolution 3D color printing of the 3D Systems ProJet® CJP 660 system. Starburns Industries, a full-service production company based in Burbank, California, used the 3D printer to turn out thousands of different faces with life-like details such as wrinkles, smil…

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  Production-Quality Lenses Directly from SLA 3D Printing

  His company has developed software that performs billions of calculations to create the optimal balance between LED energy efficiency, lighting performance and cost. With the purchase in late 2015 of a 3D Systems ProJet® 6000 HD Stereolithography (SLA) printer, TecNiq is taking the power to translate great design into physical reality to a new l…

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  GibbsCAM Provides Job Shop with Flexibility to Maximize Efficiency

  When shop owner Dick Wolters hired General Manager Paul Vreugdenhil in 1998, a single customer accounted for most of the shop’s work. Vreugdenhil immediately solicited work from Procter & Gamble, his previous employer, to reduce reliance on the single customer. Still, two customers were providing 80 percent of the shop’s work, so Wolters and Vr…

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  Asano Uses Geomagic 3D Scan Software to Drive Innovation

  Asano Co., Ltd., a Japanese metal-processing manufacturer serving the automotive and motorcycle industries, is clearly the second type of company, adopting 3D scanning technologies that have had a profound effect on its design and quality assurance processes.

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