To Stack or to Pack? That is the Question
With FDM 3D printing at our 3D printing service bureau, it’s pretty typical that when we place and orientate the part(s) on the build tray, we prefer to fill up the build bed by packing it out across the X and Y. This makes sense when you have 4 parts with a build time of 4 hours each. We put the job on at 5pm and at 9am in the morning when we arrive at our 3D printing service bureau all the parts will be finished. We then remove the parts off the build tray and place them in our cleanstation for 2 to 3 hours to remove the soluble support material.
3D Printed Drone for The British Navy
One of the most requests we get at our 3D printing service bureau is ‘Can you print a drone?’ It seems if everyone wants one these days. We can’t understand the fascination but each to their own I guess. Drones in every shape and size can be found floating about in the 3D printing community and we’ve 3D printed a few at our 3D printing service bureau but a new application for them is being developed as military assets.
3D Printed Guns – The story behind the Myth
If you’ve been a fan of 3D printing or used a 3D printing service bureau you would of probably bumped into the story of the 3D printed gun. This became industry news about 3 to 4 years ago and has been talked about ever since by pretty much everyone who asks about 3D printing.
Cutting 3D Parts up – When big just ain’t big enough
This is the second blog explaining the issues of when the parts we receive are too big for the machines we have at our 3D printing bureau. It is quite often the case you could fit a part in to the build envelope if you orientated in a different way but it would be detrimental to the part quality and the cost of the 3D printed part so we do offer to cut the stl data up.
3D printing service for use in the dental industry
Since its conception, 3D Quick Printing had 3D printed a number of fascinating 3D printed parts at our 3D printing service bureau. We’ve 3D printed parts for jigs and fixtures, 3D printed obsolete parts for cash machines, miniature railways and to be honest a whole lot more. One fascinating project we got involved with at our 3D printing service bureau was 3D printing a new set of teeth for an 83-year-old woman who had her entire lower jaw replaced with a 3D printed replica. For the sake of argument we’ll call her Gladys and her journey started when she visited her dental surgeon in Newcastle.
Things to look forward to in 2015 From 3D Quick Printing
As the first year of our 3D printing service bureau is now over we can now look forward to an exciting and prosperous 2015. In 2014 there were a number of huge announcements from all the big players in the 3D printing world so what have they and the business as a whole got in store for our 3D printing bureau service in 2015.
3D printing in Education
3D printing is now an established technology used for prototyping and manufacturing products and components across a range of industries. It already has applications in many areas of everyday life. Here at the West Midlands fasting growing 3D printing service bureau we’re seeing more and more inquiries from educational establishments.
FDM Tooling Applications
The word is obviously spreading about the West Midlands fastest growing and popular 3D printing bureau service provider as earlier this week 3D Quick Printing based in Coventry received an enquiry from one of the Countries leading Automation and Control specialists.
What is DDM?
DDM stands for Direct Digital Manufacturing. DDM is particularly advantageous for small batch production. However, where large volumes are involved, DDM can still have a significant impact. This is because the technology is perfect for the manufacturing of components with immediate effect where the data is already in CAD format. Literally in minutes you are starting a production run.
Our New Arrival – 3D Quick Printing expands their FDM Capabilities
Great news everyone. We all love a new arrival don’t we and we’re delighted to announce that we have a new ‘family’ member at our 3D printing service bureau. Earlier on this week 3D Quick Printing took delivery of our second FDM machine. We’ve expanded our capabilities by investing in a Stratasys Dimension SST1200es.