New
tools combining the power of additive manufacturing with traditional
subtractive techniques offer the next great hope for 3-D printing.
Molds printed on the LUMEX emerge from the machine fully tooled, finished and ready for production.
This iteration of SME's annual additive manufacturing conference, which took place this week in Detroit, was a smarm of activity, bloated to near record levels and choked with 3-D printing users, enthusiasts and vendors, all touting new technologies, new applications and new innovations across the industry.
The showroom floor and its massive showcase of these technologies was an absolute flood of rep-rap start-ups churning out bright plastic prototypes and big-time metal printers promising slick, final part production. Robocop was there, along with life-sized Avatar character prints and a whole display of printed costume pieces from Legacy Effects.
It was a massive, glitzy show filled the brim with amazing, glitzy things all vying for attention.
But despite all of that – despite all of the 3-D printed cars and Hollywood effects, despite the giant, weird art objects and oddly fashioned show models – the one thing that seemed to generate the biggest crowd and the most attention all week was what really appeared to be a totally normal CNC machine tucked into the back corner of the show.
But of course it wasn't really quite so normal
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