May 2011

Technology Days 2011 will be held on June 29 – 30 in Lincolnshire, Illinois and will include educational seminars and training sessions, as well as technology demonstrations.

Thule® is using SolidWorks® software to quickly introduce smart innovations for transporting bicycles, boats, skis, snowboards, luggage, and more.

For more information on the new iWeld G3 Laser Welder, visit LaserStar Technologies at the MD&M East Show on June 7-9, 2011 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York, NY.

The Mimics Innovation Suite is used for medical image processing, design, meshing and geometry optimization.

VizUp is a polygon reduction software tool and reducer for optimizing a 3D models file size.  Version 4.0 includes 12 improvements to the software.

PowerMILL removes as much material as possible with three-axis and positional five-axis operation and continuous five-axis machining is only used where necessary.

ChiTAG brings together 20,000+ consumers, inventors, manufacturers, retailers and members of the media to play, promote and celebrate the creation of toys and games.

Altair’s 7th CAE Technology Conference attracted over 300 engineers and simulation experts from UK industry.

For its innovative research vehicles, Hawkes has been named May Inventor of the Month by Autodesk.

The New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for 3D Systems is “DDD” and is revealing its new corporate identity and new logo.

New resellers in 2011 expand SpaceClaim’s channel by over 45% and join top-tier OEMs that include TRUMPF, ANSYS, and Flow Corporation.

A pioneer in his industry, Wilfried (Fried) Vancraen has been developing breakthroughs in the medical and industrial applications of Additive Manufacturing at Materialise for more than 20 years.

Composite Structures designs and manufactures complex, highly-engineered composite components and assemblies that are primarily used on commercial and defense aerospace platforms.

Plastpol 2011 will be held in Kielce Poland on May 24th-27th.  The event will be renamed to the International Fair for Plastics and Rubber Processing in the future.

This latest release also includes the Personal Factory App Gateway – a directory of apps consumers can use to design and make custom goods.

Six scanner hardware manufacturers have already agreed to include Wrap OEM Edition with their 3D scanners. These include Creaform, 3D3 Solutions, 3D Digital, Noomeo, Open Technologies and Vialux.

Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl), has announced that it will host 24 separate live webinar workshops to present the latest developments of the award-winning CadSoft’s EAGLE PCB design software.

CAMWorks 2011 provides significant new capabilities including enhanced automation, improved knowledge-based machining information, smarter tool paths, and more.

The Google SketchUp team and the Cloud Robotics team are bringing 3 full-sized recycled shipping containers outfitted with 3D printers, CNC cutters and Robots.

3D Systems supports the Autodesk 123D site with on-demand 3D print services and personal 3D printers and Kits starting at $1,300 USD.

Abaqus 6.11, the new FEA release from SIMULIA leverages NVIDIA Quadro® and Tesla™ GPUs, coupled with CPUs, to run CAE simulations twice as fast as with CPUs alone.

The new 180,000sf “Crosspointe” plant, located near Petersburg, Va is the company’s largest U.S. manufacturing facility and will eventually create an estimated 500 new jobs.

The Lemelson Foundation uses its resources to inspire, encourage and recognize inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs to support invention-led economic and environmentally sustainable development.

Steven J. Paley offers five simple tips for anyone looking to discover their hidden creative genius within.

EASTEC, which is marking its 32nd year, has been at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Mass., since 1988, and will return there May 14-16, 2013. EASTEC will then alternate years with Mfg4.

A celebration of DIY culture, Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 runs Saturday-Sunday, May 21-22, at the San Mateo County Event Center at 1346 Saratoga Drive in San Mateo, California.

According to the May 2011 Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) Business Conditions Report, metalforming companies anticipate a downturn in business conditions during the next three months.

The new materials include an ABS-like Digital Material (Objet RGD5160-DM), a new clear transparent material (Objet VeroClear), and a rigid, general purpose material, Objet VeroWhitePlus.

The SpaceClaim for Additive Manufacturing and Rapid Prototyping webinar will be held  Wednesday, June 8th, 1:00-1:30pm EST.

The webinar will take place on 27th May and will focus on three different methods of manufacturing these plates, using a Swiss-type lathe, a table-table 5-axis mill or a bar-fed mill.

The printer’s resolution is excellent: The individual layers hardened by the light beams are just a twentieth of a millimetre thick.

On Thursday May 26th, 2011, Tim Ruffner from GPI Prototype will present "Rapid Tooling Using DMLS – Direct Metal Laser Sintering Technology" at the Additive Manufacturing Conference.

More than 2,000 guests attended the event at the DMG / Mori Seiki USA Hoffman-Estates headquarters, and enjoyed more than 40 dynamic machining demos and 11 enlightening seminars.

Z Corp will offer a special workshop at the show primarily for architects. The 3D Printing for AEC Workshop takes place on Thursday, May 26th at 9 a.m. during the Architecture Breakout session.

Titanium alloy and carbon fibre replaced hardened steel for half shafts, Inconel was substituted for steel tubing in the exhaust header. Laser sintered alumide was used for the induction system.

Building this part without internal support was a technical challenge, and pushed the boundaries of digital manufacturing.

Sciaky's fully articulated, moving electron beam gun deposits metal in layers until the part is complete, and ready for finish machining. Deposition rates can range from 15 to 40 pounds of metal per hour.

EASTEC 2011, the largest annual manufacturing event on the East Coast, takes place May 17–19 at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Massachusetts.

Companies that require quality control (QC) inspection, first article inspection and high quality repetitive processing will benefit from this new certification.

3D Systems plans to showcase the 3D printing capabilities available through this relationship with voxeljet at the upcoming RAPID 2011 Exhibition in Minneapolis, Minnesota May 24th -26th, 2011.

The Dow Corning XIAMETER brand offers more than 2,500 standard silicone products, including silicone fluids, sealants, silanes, emulsions and rubber.

Mazak’s Discover Mazak Northeast event will be held at the company’s technology center located in Windsor Locks, Connecticut on May 17 – 18, 2011.

Depending on the market size estimate used, between 27 and 39 percent of all PCBs in products sold to the U.S. military are manufactured outside North America.

Makino will detail several key technologies, including the recently released T2 5-axis horizontal machining center designed specifically for the challenges of titanium machining.

The MINI Cooper WRC Team used the additive manufacturing machines to create a full-scale mock-up of the vehicle directly from the CAD (computer aided design) files.

INPEX® Director, Nicole Hait, will be a guest on the online inventor radio show, Got Invention Radio, hosted by Brian Fried, tonight, May 12, 2011 at 8:00 p.m.

More than 24,000 interior designers, architects, retailers, designers, manufacturers, representatives, distributors, and developers will attend the show in New York City on May 14-17.

The Certified User program includes AutoCAD Certified User and Autodesk Inventor Certified User certifications and tests students to ensure they understand and can effectively use Autodesk software.

3D Systems plans to continue to operate FOC from its Amsterdam location and leverage its rich content libraries and design capabilities for the benefit of its expanding users and developers community.

The winning ideas, as determined by popular vote, will be brought to life with the help of Toyota, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Deeplocal experts during a rapid prototyping session in June.

The U.S. Department of Energy is holding its 12th Annual Small Business Conference & Expo at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri from May 10-12, 2011.

The EASTEC 2011 Exposition will be held in West Springfield, Massachusetts on May 17th-19th 2011.

Visitors will be able to test paper object designs in one of three different wind tunnels, building and testing bridge design, constructing electric circuits, and over a dozen more hands-on activities.

DFMPro automates manufacturability checks to validate the design quickly. It assists identification of design areas which are difficult, expensive or impossible to manufacture, assemble and service.

The National Association of Advisers and Inspectors in Design and Technology, is an organization dedicated to the promotion of Design & Technology across the UK curriculum.

Didrick, of Naples, Florida designed the world's first active-function artificial finger assemblies specifically for amputees, in SolidWorks® software.

With a year-to-date total of  $1,203.57 million, 2011 is up 118.6% compared with 2010.

The VX4000 system concept features a very large building volume of 4 x 2 x 1 metres, which is approximately eight times the volume of conventional systems.

Applications include mechanical CAD, CAM, CAE, mold design, sheet metal, AEC, GIS, structural, plant and ship design, CMM, reverse engineering and sales configuration.

Features of the EOSINT M 280 Direct Metal Laser Sintering system include a 200 or 400 watt laser, laser power monitoring, and nitrogen or argon protective atmospheres.

National Manufacturing Week (NMW 2011) will be held at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in Melbourne, Australia on May 24-27 2011.

The Phantom Ray is an unmanned airborne system that is part of a rapid prototyping initiative to design, develop and build advanced aircraft.

TRUMPF's TruLaser Cell 8030 as a 5-axis laser system designed specifically for laser cutting hot stamped 3D components.

Parts made of plastic, ceramics or composite materials, as well as magnesium, aluminum and steel can be dimensionally measured and highly efficiently evaluated.

The 2011 Automation Summit will be held at Disney’s Yacht & Beach Club Resorts in Orlando, Florida from June 27th-30th.

Geomagic Wrap enables the transformation of point cloud data to 3D polygon meshes for use in manufacturing, design and analysis.

Engineers and machinists at the base regularly need to reverse engineer complex replacement parts for naval aircraft in order to keep the planes and helicopters in peak flying condition.

The candidate's invention must be covered by a United States patent, and the work must have had a major impact on society, the public welfare, and the progress of science and the useful arts.

Additive manufacturing is the practice of building up material to directly form a net-shape product rather than forming a product by traditional methods such as forging, casting or machining material away.

Children learned about 3D printing with tools from Argonne National Laboratories, took an in depth look at skin cells with design firm, IDEO, and discovered how robots are made with FIRST robotics.

Mastercam for SolidWorks provides a full suite of cutting strategies, including Feature Based Machining (FBM) and 3D High Speed Machining (HSM) toolpaths.

The T2 provides X-, Y- and Z-axis travels of 2,000mm, 2,000mm and 1,800mm, respectively, allowing for part sizes up to 1900mm by 2000mm and 5,000kg.

The new .NET API comprises of an extensive set of managed wrapper classes that offer full access to the entire .dwg database.

Under the agreement, AICON will supply Delcam’s PowerINSPECT inspection software with its metrology system.

Mcor Technologies manufactures the only paper 3D printer in the world, the Matrix 300. The Matrix 300 3D printer is now available in Europe and will be launched in the US in Q3 2011.

Husky is a supplier of injection molding equipment and designs and manufactures a broad range of injection molding machines, hot runners, molds and integrated systems.

Mastercam's Summer Teacher Training program will offer 9 different courses between June 27th and August 5th.

"America's future will always be bright when we continue to invest in and support the young minds who will be tomorrow's innovators, pioneers and leaders. That's what the science bowl is all about."

EASTEC is the largest machine tool show in the North-East United States. It will be held this year in West Springfield, Massachusetts from May 17th to 19th.

Compatibility includes the full line of AutoCAD products, including Architecture, Civil 3D®, Electrical, Map® 3D, Mechanical, MEP, P&ID, and Plant 3D, as well as Autodesk Inventor® Fusion.

PLM and collaborative software enable all stakeholders in a product’s design to share updates, reuse data and streamline processes.

The company will discuss this development in more detail on its first quarter 2011 conference call and live webcast on May 16th, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. PDT (5:00 p.m. EDT).

Free to the Mastercam and Autodesk communities, Mastercam Direct enables users to open a model in Mastercam while in an Inventor session, and then update toolpaths to reflect changes to the model.

CONTROL visitors can check out new powerful CAMIO7 and CMM-Manager 3.0 metrology software releases, both offering a new user interface.