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installed this past June at Centre Technique des Industries Mécaniques (CETIM), France’s benchmark institute and tech- nological innovation hub for mechanical engineering. In addition, the company is moving forward with its new printing technology on several projects with man- ufacturers in a variety of industries.
Also, as part of its production service, Digital Metal has produced approximately 200,000 metallic pieces in the last four years for industries including aerospace, luxury goods, dental tools and industri- al-equipment manufacturing.
A provider of software-development tools and 3D PDF products to the engi- neering-software industry, Tech Soft 3D (www.techsoft3d.com) has announced an array of partners harnessing its Hoops software-development toolkits. Customers include companies looking to add 3D- printing capability to existing products, or develop new products using Tech Soft 3D-provided modules instead of devel- oping the technology inhouse. Software-
Production of titanium propellant tanks via additive manufacturing, reducing costs by 55 percent, material waste by 75 percent and production time by
80 percent, earned Sciaky, Inc. and Lockheed Martin the 2017 Aerospace Application Award at the recently held TCT Show.
development toolkits from Tech Soft 3D provide key capabilities such as CAD translation, visualization, modeling and mesh processing.
Users include Sculpteo, nTopology, NetFabb and Xometry, that employ the Hoops software-development kits, and Renishaw, 3D Systems, Geometric and Simpleware, that use the Polygonica plat- form (Tech Soft 3D is the exclusive global reseller of the product). Stratasys uses both.
Hoops Exchange, one of the software- development kits, allows reading of native and standard CAD file formats, enabling higher-quality 3D-printed parts, according to company officials. Other modules include Hoops Visualize & Communicator, which allows visualization on both mobile and web applications; Hoops Publish, enabling native 3D PDF, 3MF, STL and standard CAD formats to be exported to 3D-printing platforms; and Polygonica from MachineWorks, which allows for mesh processing. 3DMP
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