3D printing has enabled fast prototyping and manufacturing of new products. Combined with design automation, everyone even those with little technical capability can now utilize the power of 3D printing to create their personalized products. Mass customisation is a concept …
read more3D printing has created totally new and fantastic opportunities for creating custom products, but in order to realize them businesses will need new ways of thinking about their products. We’ll talk about why custom is going to be so important, and give you 4 tips to help you take your custom products from ideas to reality.
read moreIn the next interview in our ‘Custom Talks’ series we talk to Professor Thierry Rayna. One of customization’s most eminent thinkers, Rayna sheds light on how the perception of products needs to shift and how crucial software will be in the further growth of the AM market.
read more3D printing was surrounded in hype just a few years ago. Now businesses are looking to the real opportunities. One such opportunity, arguably one with the most promise, is customization. 3D printing makes customization on a whole new level possible, ushering in a new era of manufacturing and a new breed of products. But there is still one piece of the puzzle missing: software. With software businesses can automate product design and enable co-creation, changing what we buy and how.
read moreIn just two weeks this year’s Rapid.Tech + FabCon 3D will take place in Erfurt. From June 20th – 22nd the most exciting minds of the additive industry will gather at the combined conference and expo.
read moreThe first step towards creating amazing custom products? Creating a 3D model. With so many 3D modelling software tools to choose from, it is no wonder that many people feel overwhelmed. But no matter how you are creating: as a hobby “Maker”, a small business owner, or someone dying to test their great idea for 3D-printable, custom products, there is a program out there for you. That’s why we have assembled this list of the top 5 free CAD modelling tools. Find the one that’s right for you and start building your additive manufacturing production chain today.
read moreMore and more, businesses are putting customization at the core of what they do. One such company is dilite, whose mission is to reimagine standardized everyday products to reflect the uniqueness of each customer. We talked to CEO, Thomas Gruber, about why customization is so important for dilite, deciding how and what to customize, and how paramate is helping them realize their innovative idea.
read moreFür viele Industriegüterunternehmen ist die Entwicklung und Fertigung kundenspezifischer Komponenten ein ebenso unverzichtbarer wie komplexer und kostenintensiver Prozess. Die Softwarelösung von trinckle ermöglicht es, diese Individualisierung zu automatisieren und Prozesse neu zu denken. Spread the word! Eine kundenspezifische Anpassung bestehender …
read moreCustom components are a frequent must across all industries, but getting them made is rarely simple. The biggest challenge: customer-specific design. Our partnership with Kuhn-Stoff GmbH & Co KG aimed to relieve the design pain point, and create a software application that automates this process.
read moreGlasses wearers rejoice! Thanks to 3D printing the days of ill-fitting glasses are over, and getting the perfect pair will get a lot easier.
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