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Explore how EAA members use Solid Edge and 3D printing to design, model, and build aircraft parts-affordably and efficiently ...
While Taiwan-based Megaforce Co. Ltd.’s quality and efficiency in mold design have been market tested over the company’s nearly 20-year history, the traditional approach of deploying both 2D and 3D ...
That’s why the Action BOX team used computer-aided design (CAD) ... They designed it to work with 3D-printed molds, as well as those made with a CNC machine. However, ...
We wanted a system that would allow us to iterate designs on a daily basis.” The conventional process chain for molds takes weeks: part design, mold design, quotation and purchase process, ...
Whether a design is downloaded or an original creation, it should take advantage of the 3D-printing process. Working complex geometries into a part can add value.
Historically, the company exchanged drawings and parts lists with customers in paper form. Increasingly, however, the information they needed to successfully produce their complex tooling and ...
How is Liquid Factory beginning to bypass molds in the shoe-making process? 3D printing is an obvious guess, but existing options weren't quite right for their needs. McInnis explains that with ...
For an example of a 3D CAD drawing, which details the electrical service main distribution system and a standby diesel generator system of a recently completed SASCO design/build project, see Diagrams ...