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Speeding Up 3D Printing: Kickstarter Campaign for Ulendo Cloud-Based Software
In 2017, researchers with the Smart and Sustainable Automation Research Lab (S2A Lab) at the University of Michigan College of Engineering developed a filtered b-spline (FBS) algorithm that could help speed up 3D printing by regulating the vibrations . . This week,...
Spie batignolles tests Xtreee’s 3D printing platform for prefabricated elements
Spie batignolles is experimenting with 3D printing of concrete materials for construction sites to produce prefabricated elements with high applicability. . In collaboration with XtreeE , a start-up specializing in 3D printing for construction, Spie batignolles...
Building Europe’s largest 3D-printed home
Europe's largest 3D-printed house is being built Location: Wallenhausen, Germany It will be 380 square meters housing five apartments over three stories ( . "We have very high building standards in Germany, and this technology is in no way inferior. We are standing...
User-friendly software and 3D printing lets non-specialists design and build products
The digital revolution has changed how products are designed. Today digital data from a 3D model, produced predominantly using a CAD system, is exported to CAM software, which is used to convert that model into a file format that can be sent to a fabrication tool that...
3D-printed structure in Fox Hills aims to disrupt housing design
In LA, designers, developers and elected officials are trying to figure out how to provide more affordable housing. Some say prefabricated or factory-built housing can reduce the costs of on-site construction. One company, called Mighty Buildings, has gone even...
Greek Man Building 3D Printed House in Germany
Giorgos Staikos, who grew up in a family of builders and woodworkers in the area around the Greek city of Drama, plans to build an entirely 3D-printed home in the German city of Beckum. . If successful, the 38-year-old claims it would be the first inhabitable...
How 3D Printing in Space Will Help Put a Million People on Mars
Mention space missions, what may first come to mind is either rocket blastoffs, spaceships voyaging toward another planet or astronauts walking in the black of vacuum in fat spacesuits. . All of those things are made on Earth, but for both convenience and long-haul...
High-Performance Concrete: From Warped Chairs to 3D-Printed Homes
Based in Kirkwood, NY, Trinic designs and manufactures materials. Specifically, the company specializes in glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC) and ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) that enable some incredible concrete structures, everything from wall cladding...
First 3D-printed residential building under construction in Germany
A first 3D-printed residential building is under construction in Germany. The two-storey detached house with approx. 80 sqm of living space per floor is not being constructed in the conventional manner, it is being printed by a 3D construction printer. . This...