There is a lot of buzz today about 3D Printing, thanks to it’s inclusion in the President’s State of The Union Address. If you missed it here is the relevant quote Last year, we created our first manufacturing innovation institute in Youngstown, Ohio. A once-shuttered warehouse is now a state-of-the art lab where new workers […]
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The other day I posted about a new 3D printer that showed up on popular crowd funding website Kickstarter. The “Delta Maker” utilizes existing technology and unique design to deliver an aesthetically pleasing 3D printer that hobbyists and makers would be proud to display on their desktop.Check out the DeltaMaker campaign on KickStarter – they are now
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The recent Solidworks World surely brought an influx of new CSWPs. At least the analytics data for this site suggests people were searching for the term. The occasion allowed me to test out Fiverr.com resulting in the above infographic.
Recently a series of articles I wrote appeared on CadDigest.com. It seems that despite 2 days of hands on training, days spent working with Solid Edge, and hours of editing, something completely missed me. Thankfully a helpful reader pointed out the error in the article Working with 2D Files and Drawings in Solid Edge ST5 In
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Kickstarter has been very popular in the maker world, allowing enterprising designers and engineers to see their great ideas become products. In making new products often prototypes are required so it should come as no surprise that the users of Kickstarter may also use 3D printers. But Kickstarter also helps to develop and produce new 3D Printers.
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I recently had the chance to review Solid Edge ST5 in order to compare it to Solidworks. Most of my experience is with Solidworks, as evidenced by the majority of the posts on this site, but I appreicated the opportunity to dabble in a new system. Over at CADDigest there area series of posts reviewing the
Sometime during every design review it is necessary to send a CAD file to someone who may not be an everyday CAD user. When this happens it is important to have an easy way to view a file without having to buy multiple seats of an expensive software. Solidworks has their eDrawings viewer, reviewed previously,
Transitioning to and learning a new software system is intimidating, so when I was asked to compare my experience with Solidworks to Solid Edge ST5 I was expecting a steep learning curve. In the past 7 years I have been exposed to Solidworks in a variety of capacities; as a university student, new employee, administrator,
Just click to enlarge the 3D printing user categories infographic. The various users of 3D printing Check out more about 3D Printing and learn about the new industrial revolution.
Acquisitions are a great way to grow an organization, especially if the acquired companies can be leveraged to support core products. With nearly three dozen acquisitions in 3 years, 3DS is no stranger to acquisitions. All of this growth, which has been a huge benefit to their stock price, has come with a bit of
