April 2011

Tim Ruffner from GPI Prototype presenting Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) at the Amerimold Expo Product Development & Additive Manufacturing Track on Thursday April 14, 2011.

LGS 3D is used to implement geometric, dimensional, and engineering constraints in applications involving assembly design, motion simulation, and direct modeling.

PTC has leveraged its global footprint by co-sponsoring nearly 180 FRC and FTC teams with its customers and partners to extend the FIRST program into as many schools as possible.

The crowdfunding update will assist entrepreneurs in overcoming the fierce obstacles in obtaining seed funding.

Productivity gains are estimated at being 30% superior to traditional solutions thanks to such characteristics as partial loading and very fast realistic rendering.

The Company plans to hold the conference call to discuss its first quarter financial results on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 8:30 a.m. (ET).

CAMIO7 features a new interface with instant access to programming functions from a single ribbon toolbar. The programming experience is both faster and easier than previous versions of the software.

Fairings are made via prototyping technologies and leading edge fashion design. Fairings cost between $4,000 and $6,000 depending on the complexity of design and finish materials chosen.

VXtrack provides a complete portable 3D measuring solution offering both probing inspection and dynamic measurement capabilities.

HTC2011 will center on product lifecycle management (PLM) technology and its effects across a variety of advanced-manufacturing sectors, with particular focus on the aerospace industry.

DAC 2011 is a conference devoted to design and design automation of electronic systems and will be held at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California, from June 5-10, 2011.

AICONs optical measuring system MoveInspect HR will be delivered with a direct interface to Delcam’s analysis software PowerINSPECT.

Certification demonstrates that the product is of high quality and up to date, and that it provides the highest level of interoperability with Autodesk Inventor software.

Presentations from Makino’s Global Titanium R&D engineers are planned to detail Makino’s new T2 titanium machining center and the latest titanium process engineering research.

ABstructures is using HyperWorks together with other computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools to simulate composites and fluid-structure interactions.

Laser direct structuring and molded interconnect devices are used to combine both mechanical structures and electronic circuits into a single 3D part.

Sigma Labs, Inc. comprises leading scientists and engineers from Los Alamos National Laboratory with over 75 years of combined industrial R&D experience.

April 26th has been designated “World IP Day” by member states to the World Intellectual Property Organization.

High-difficulty engineering projects were submitted in the Put Us to the Test Challenge, and the 3 most challenging entries shared more than $25,000 in prizes.

The National Science Bowl is the nation's largest academic competition of its kind with more than 14,000 students from 1800 schools participating in regional science bowl competitions this year.

SmartCAM consists of applications for CNC milling, turning, fabrication and wire EDM. Version 18.0 is built on two central themes: core milling improvements, and core modeling and toolpath editing.

The agreement will offer GHD access to 25 Autodesk products and in excess of 1000 licensed seats globally and consulting services to help integrate the technology.

Laura Howard, a 29 year-old design student from the University of Louisville in Kentucky, created the winning bioplastics symbol and was awarded $25,000 for her design.

The event is the largest in North America dedicated to the electronic interconnect industry.  Next year the event will be held in San Diego on February 28–March 1, 2012.

Being electrically powered the ICF is able to reduce emissions, excess noise and fuel costs, meeting all future international environmental standards guidelines.

The new line of Super Turbo chamfer mills are designed to provide high metal removal rates while reducing production costs.

The Design/Build/Fly Competition challenges teams of undergraduate and graduate students to design and fabricate a radio-controlled aircraft conforming to strict guidelines.

The Award has been granted in recognition of Delcam’s consistent growth in its international sales over the six years from 2005 to 2010 with exports increasing to £30 million annually over the period.

A webinar detailing the highly-anticipated modo for SolidWorks Kit and conducted by SolidWorks expert and Luxology Registered Trainer Paul McCrorey, will be held on April 28, 2011 from 4:00-5:00 p.m.

25 finalists in the Ideas for Good challenge will compete for the public's votes in an attempt to bring their ideas to life during a prototyping session in June.

Events include Chicago, IL April 25 through the 29th for basic and advanced training seminars and continue on through Kansas City MO, Los Angeles CA, Hartford CT and Clearwater Florida.

BAE Systems is one of the largest manufacturing-based employers in the UK and largest single private sector employer of professional engineers with 18,000 engineering staff in 2009.

Smart Plastics include dashboards without switches and buttons, flexible solar cells or medical diagnostics systems integrated in plastic products.

Isight provides designers, engineers, and researchers with an open system for integrating design and simulation models created with various CAD, CAE and other software applications.

Located in Cambridge, Cadsoft Solutions provides 2D and 3D CAD and design software solutions that enable innovative product development and design.

The event will take place May 14, 2011 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. This one-day conference from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. consists of various workshops and panels for inventors and entrepreneurs.

Altair’s 7th CAE Technology Conference will be held on May 10th, 2011 at the Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.

The service is designed to streamline and simplify the selection, quoting and ordering of Precision Machined Metal Plates used in the assembly of industrial machinery and factory automation systems.

The third annual CTE state 3D design and 3D printing competition will be held April 18-19, 2011 at the Sheraton Hotel in Waikiki, Hawaii.

Over 1500 design entries and over 2.8 million public votes determined the top 200 designs from which the renowned panel of "Make Your Mark" judges selected the top three finalists.

Learn product design and development processes, new applications for rapid prototyping, techniques for fastening, joining, and assembly and advances in materials development.

The Lotus Renault Advanced Digital Manufacturing Centre supports its entire Formula 1 design, wind tunnel testing, full-scale applications and production parts for its racecars.

The FARO Edge is a portable measurement arm that allows inspections, tool certifications, CAD-to-part analysis, and reverse engineering via hard probing and non-contact laser scanning.

The futuristic speed machine is designed to reach mach 1.4 (approximately 1,050 mph) in its pursuit of the world land speed record.

ModelMaker uses foam boards so concepts become reality for less than $1.00 per model.  They have the ability to generate models at 1/20 the time and 1/20 the cost of competitive solutions.

The three-day event brings together executives and engineers to discuss the most important issues facing both users and vendors of design and engineering technologies.

MTT designs, develops and manufactures additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping systems, including selective laser melting, metal casting, and vacuum casting machines and processes.

Seco will be providing tooling for a variety of innovative cutting demonstrations and demonstrating the use of a broaching operation for blisk machining.

The process uses a combination of laser welding and arc welding and with high-power fiber lasers is able to weld steels greater than 0.5” thick in a single pass at speeds greater than 6 ft/min.

The expanded facility will feature a new auditorium space, more room for seminars, area for customer projects and test cuts and expanded machine tool demonstration facilities.

SYCODE is a software development company based in Goa, India that specializes in providing plug-ins for all commercially available Computer Aided Design (CAD) packages.

AutoCAD WS for Android will be available for download on the Android Market beginning April 20, 2011.

The Robot Block Party event will take place at Stanford University's Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab (VAIL) on Thursday, April 14, from 1 to 7 p.m.

i4 Product Design is helping to protect critical Computer Aided Design systems from disruption using innovative snapshot technology and low cost off-site data storage policies.

Biba will discuss its participation in the Designers Accord, a global coalition of designers, educators and business leaders working together to create a positive environmental and social impact.

The addition includes a new sheetmetal manufacturing cell, larger plating room, 1,100 square foot stereolithography laboratory and more stock material for faster turnaround.

The day-long event will be held at the Frontier Airlines Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 17th, 2011.

BAE Systems has its largest ever presence at LAAD 2011 and its ‘Home of Innovation’ exhibit highlights the company’s cutting edge defence and security capabilities.

AUTOMATICON® is the most important trade fair for automation, control, measurement and robotics in Poland.

Like its parent company in the UK, the Singapore office provides process development and prototyping services based on Delcam’s range of CADCAM software.

As a result of this acquisition, Roney Software's SolidWorks customers will benefit from immediate access to new products and value-added services from FISHER/UNITECH.

Dry ice blasting can be used to clean engines, tooling, molds, walls, and almost any surface where abrasive blasting would damage the surface.

Makrolon® 2458 polycarbonate from Bayer MaterialScience LLC offers a number of beneficial properties including good dimensional stability even over a wide range of temperature and moisture.

The new metrology system will be exhibited for the first time in Europe at Control Show in Stuttgart, Germany on May 3-6, 2011.

The first prize in the global solidThinking Design Competition 2011 is US$5,000 cash and a solidThinking 8.5 Inspired commercial license. Second prize is US$3,000 and a similar license.

PolyWorks/Talisman is free of charge and can be downloaded from the Apple iTunes Store.

The program will give product designers the opportunity to bring innovative products to life. Proto Labs will provide $100,000 worth of prototyping and short-run production services to award recipients.

The SALA laser technology event will be held in Hartford, Connecticut on April 13-14, 2011.

Gridgen is a meshing software used by engineers and scientists to generate high quality grids for engineering analysis.

The OrthoTec exhibition will be held in Lake Winona, Indiana on May 24-25, 2011.

Features include exceptional stiffness, excellent accuracy, high humidity resistance and extreme high temperature resistance.

EBN is an interactive community site for senior executives, managers, financial analysts, and other professionals involved in managing supply chain activities in the high-tech equipment sector.

Speakers from Sikorsky, Boeing, Kennametal, Apache Aerospace, Fanuc, and Mitsui Seiki will present the critical aspects to consider along with the latest practical experience surrounding this topic.

Chinaplas is one of Asia's largest plastics & rubber trade fairs.  It will be held May 17th-20th 2011 at the China Import & Export Fair Pazhou Complex in Guangzhou, PR China.

As part of PBS's Earth Day programming, Planet Forward has produced a one-hour special focusing on some of the most innovative and interesting ideas that they received over the past six months.

GF AgieCharmilles will be demonstrating EDM and 5-axis milling technologies at EASTEC 2011 on May 17-19 at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Massachusetts.

The web-based benchmarking survey tracks and reports actual order data from North American manufacturers and suppliers of industrial lasers.

Terrestrial prototypes of the rovers will be constructed from advanced aluminum alloys with electric propulsion systems powered by battery and, in the case of the Mars rover, solar energy.

Materialise has been playing an active role in the field of additive manufacturing since 1990, with the largest capacity of rapid prototyping equipment in Europe.

ATW will feature a range of its tube fabrication, laser cutting/welding, machining, and metal injection molding(MIM) capabilities for the medical device industry.

Open systems will allow manufacturers to combine their own choice of equipment and software, and then use a broad variety of materials.

With QuickQuote(R) 2.0 customer quote history can be retrieved, modified, deleted or purchased online. The status of all open projects is displayed, including expected ship dates and tracking information.

The Cognitens WLS400 product family will be presented at the Hexagon Metrology Booth 1508 at the AeroDef show held in the Anaheim Convention Center, Hall D, April 5-7, 2011.

Granta is offering an upcoming web seminar on April 12th for a demonstration of best practice composite data management and tools for modeling and decision support.

Franchino will present Leveraging Innovation: How to Partner with a Product Development Firm on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 2:00 pm at the Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin.

Amerimold will take place April 13th-14th, 2011, at the Donald E. Stephens Center in Rosemont, Illinois and cover tool and mold making; injection molding and rapid product development.

The twenty-sixth annual International Forum on Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA®) will be held on June 13th-15th, 2011 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Providence-Warwick, Rhode Island.

Terraze Engineering will be the first Sales Partner in Saudi Arabia and will work alongside Delcam’s direct office in the Middle East, which was established in the UAE in 2004.

3D printing of digital designs enables Clarks’ development team to create detailed, colorful physical shoe models in hours instead of the two weeks it used to take for manufactured samples to return.

Bricscad V11 Pro for Linux adds the complete ACIS solid modeling engine, opening the way for powerful 3D modeling and stronger 3D functions.

After 5,000 students and many impressive designs, a French team achieved the equivalent of more than 11,000 miles per gallon during Shell Eco-marathon 2010 series.

SparkFun will host workshops on various areas of electronics technology, including soldering, stenciling, wireless communication, printed circuit board design, prototyping and eTextiles.

“By conducting more design iterations in SolidWorks, we have cut in half the number of prototype molds required for each part, which saves us up to 10 weeks of development time,” Coaplen said.

By connecting multiple machines on a single network to a centralized computer, MPmax enables manufacturers to retrieve, store and analyze high volumes of machine data in real time.

The AERODEF Manufacturing Exposition and Conference will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on April 5-7, 2011.

The open house will feature the latest developments in portable metrology hardware and software on April 8th in Delcam’s California office in Pasadena.

KMT is the only commercial supplier of robotic shell removal and core removal systems with production installations producing investment cast parts.

Rapid prototyping requirements will be presented and how inkjet-based multi-material 3D printing is generating a significant change in the visualization and testing of product designs.

The Dimension Elite 3D Printer will be demonstrated which is ideal for printing intricate 3D product mockups and functional models of parts such as medical devices and precision instruments.

The SAE World Congress at the Detroit Cobo Hall is an international convention for automotive engineers from all over the world. It takes place from April 12 to 14, 2011 in downtown Detroit.