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Over the past few months I have been intrigued by the rising popularity of 3D printing. This young  technology is getting a lot of mentions in the media and on the web. In my everyday life its even making an appearance, a machine recently showed up in my office and has excited a lot of

Last week an interesting research paper, published in Nature and covered at the UPenn website, hit the mainstream media with hundreds of mentions of 3d printing. The research itself is fascinating, but the implications that is has for the 3d printing industry are even more compelling. Additive fabrication machines, 3d printers, are just tools and

Rapid prototyping and 3D printing have been on my mind for a number or years, my first exposure to the technology was in college when some graduates students and a professor demoed what would go on to become an award winning board game, Khet. Seeing first hand the ease with which a new component could

Matt Lombard has an inserting article on the future of Solidworks, saying that it is dying. Matt has more information, and generally better insight than I on many industry topics. Though his comments regarding Solidworks as we know it may be correct, with the change of kernels and ground up reprogramming making the future foggy,

Designing, prototyping, and manufacturing new components and devices has always been a complicated process. Computer aided design software, such as those CAD software programs reviewed elsewhere on this site, have gone a long way in simplifying the process but recent 3D Printing technology is arguably doing more to shorten the prototyping and manufacturing stages. Often

Applications for rapid prototyping are becoming more prevalent in the news. So much so that “prototyping” is not nearly the right word for 3d Printing. Increasingly components, products, and even works of art are being created by machines that used to be something out of science fiction. Recently an article caught my eye that highlights

James Cameron alluded yesterday in his keynote that 3D printing played a major part in colonizing the world of Pandora in Avatar. Though printing out massive dump trucks on alien planets is still stuff of science fiction it is not all that far off. The partner pavilion here at Solidworks is loaded with rapid prototyping

When talking about the world of Pandora James mentioned that he “geeks out” on the why of science fiction. The manufacturing required to establish a society advanced enough to mine a rock and support the community than rise a host of questions. So how were these items; a dump truck as large as an arena,

Had a chance again to walk the floor of the Partner Pavilion here at Solidworks World. The product showcases here would make me want to start writing up my Christmas list. Plane. Check.Awesome Dune Buggy. Check.Massively over speced computer. Also check. Here’s a few videos I took while waltzing around and noshing on some pie.