ROCK HILL, S.C., Sept. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) announced that three leading mold-making shops - Allegiance Mold, Liberty Molds, Inc., and Synergy MouldWorks, Inc.—have ...

A bone cement dispenser developed in Cimatron software. Vaupell Midwest Molding & Tooling (www.vaupell.com), makes molded products and assemblies for the medical, defense, aerospace, electronics and ...

SolidCam gives SCP Plastics machinists up-to-the-minute updates on design changes. When Bud Hanna purchased SCP Plastics (www.scpplastics.com), he surmised that the injection-molding shop had not ...

Most of the plastic objects we see are created using injection molding, but designing such molds is a difficult task, usually requiring experts. Now, computer scientists have created an interactive ...

Prototyping and low-volume production have long been a challenge for companies that design and manufacture injection-molded parts. Ideally, prototypes for validation should be made of the same ...

PS-Moldmaker software from Delcam International Inc., Windsor, Ont., Canada (www.delcam.ca), speeds mold design and adds flexibility to manage design changes. The software lets designers of ...

3D printing is all well and good for prototyping, and it can even produce useful parts. If you want real strenght in plastics, though, or to produce a LOT of parts, you probably want to step up to ...

Machined tooling contributes to the majority of production costs for many small-run jobs. 3D printing can reduce the cost of plastic cores, molds, and tooling, but there are several considerations to ...

Thermoforming — which includes vacuum-forming — has its place in a well-rounded workshop, and Mayku (makers of desktop thermoforming machines) have a short list of tips for getting the best results ...

Most mold manufacturers do not use material flow analysis software as a part of the mold design process as a general rule. Yet, because the mold is such a critical part of the success or failure of ...

A different conversation about the capabilities of 3D-printing is happening at edg, a New York architecture and engineering firm which focuses on technology-driven design and the restoration of ...

Most of the plastic objects we see are created using injection molding, but designing such molds is a difficult task, usually requiring experts. Now, computer scientists from the Institute of Science ...