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In my inbox this morning was an email thanking me for attending Solidworks that also was offering a “Free Design Cube”. The company sponsoring the cube is Protolabs or Protomold, a rapid prototyping service house that has been around since 1999. They specialize in quick turn injection molded parts and even their about us page […]

    This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas  I got back from SolidWorks World a couple of weeks ago, which also came close to coinciding with the lunar New Year.  In China, it marks the start of the Year of the Wood Horse.   For me, it’s a second opportunity to make new

Full Disclosure, there was an open bar and cheese & fruit stand in the Stratasys announcement room, so I’m already a fan. Then of course I’m a huge fan of 3D printing and am fully of the belief that it is not only the future, but is currently revolutionizing the present. With that in mind

I have a short trip here to Solidworks World so doing everything to maximize. That means hitting up each of the events listed on the press agenda for Sunday.  First up, the Solidworks 2014 Demo, put on by Ian Hogg, which is hopefully a showcase of the many new features that those beta testers have

Solidworks Worlds, an annual summit of engineers, designers, resellers, and press, is going off this week in San Diego. With their headquarters in chilly Massachusetts it should come as no surprise that the good people of Solidworks have picked a beautiful Southern California city to play host. The Convention Center along the harbor, and bordering

With the recent news coverage surrounding the 3D printing industry, Mediabistro’s Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo, taking place at the Javits Center on April 2-4, is set to be an unmissable event, featuring new product demonstrations, exhibitions, panel sessions, and keynotes. I personally attended last year’s event and had a wonderful time while being exposed to a fantastic array

There are plenty of kit 3D printers out there that can make things out of everything from chocolate and sugar to plastic…. and now metal.  A team at Michigan Tech managed to turn a traditional delta style printer on it’s head and combine it with a MIG Welder to create a device that can be

This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas  First week of training is done. When I first started, I had the youthful optimism that, with a little work, I might be able to sweep the Model Mania top award easily. It doesn’t appear that will be the case. My times are all over 10

A few years ago, in 2010, there was a Gartner hype cycle chart that showed Consumer 3D Printing still had plenty of hype left in it. Of course the past few years have continued to bring it into the mainstream and this years 2013 Gartner report has it listed “At the Peak”. Over that time

Makerbot is continuing to make news just a few months after being acquired by Stratasys. They released their first 3D scanner earlier this year, priced at $1400, and are poised to continue making a push for consumer level 3D fabrication machines and accessories. The newest development is an addition of a big time advertising firm,