Design is a matter of balance: weight vs. strength, cost vs. quality, speed vs. accuracy, and so on. As development progresses, prototyping is an essential part of the balancing process, and ...

The ZBuilder Ultra makes high-end functional plastic prototypes. The unit is said to rival injection molding’s accuracy, material properties, detail, and surface finish. The ZBuilder Ultra makes ...

Aluminum alloy cylinder head for engine or pump, showing oil channels. On the subject of rapid prototyping, 3D printing often dominates the conversation. The speed, digital flexibility, and low ...

Product developers and engineers who design and manufacture plastic parts now have a powerful new weapon in their arsenal: 3D printing. This disruptive technology has great promise for rapid ...

DRESSER, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tenere Inc., a full-service designer and fabricator of complex metal and plastic components and assemblies, today announced that it has acquired Protogenic, a ...

My recent post about the dawn of the hardware startup generated some great reader emails. Many of the responses concerned rapid prototyping. The concept is no doubt familiar to readers of ZDNet, but ...

Faster production means shorter lead times and ultimately more economic benefits for the manufacturer. The overall advantages of Rapid Prototyping seem limitless. The ...

MIT has unveiled an exciting innovation in the realm of electronic prototyping with the introduction of FlexBoard, a flexible breadboard that revolutionizes the process of designing interactive ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Vaquform’s digital smarts come in the form of a IR probe for monitoring the temperature of the plastic and ...

U.S. Army science and technology leaders want to use rapid-prototyping equipment more often to help bring innovation to the battlefield faster. Increasing the pace of innovation has been a popular ...

3D printing (as known as three-dimensional printing) is a type of rapid prototyping technology. It is a technology that uses powdered metal or plastic and other bondable materials to construct objects ...