Month: July 2022

3D Printing Orthopaedic Devices With Liquid Silicone

  3D printing with silicone is game-changing for the orthopaedics industry, which uses silicone to make non-rigid parts for orthopaedic devices, such as liners that reduce strain on joints.   The Lynxter S600D prints skin-friendly silicone developed with silicone chemistry experts COP Chimie. The silicone is suitable for all external healthcare applications, including orthopaedic devices. …

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3D Printing Silicone For Soft Robotics Is Possible With Lynxter

3D Printing Silicone For Soft Robotics Is Possible With Additive-X and Lynxter When you envision robotics, you probably imagine hard plastics, composites and metal parts powered by mechanical and electronic components. But rigid robotics has a counterpart – soft robotics – which uses compliant materials instead of hard materials to create flexible and deformable robots. …

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Who are BCN3D Technologies? Welcoming A New Partner to Additive-X

We are delighted to partner with BCN3D Technologies, bringing a range of exciting desktop 3D printers to the Additive-X range.   Additive-X is proud to only partner with the ‘best-in-class’ technologies so after our engineers have thoroughly road tested the BCN3D Epsilon W50 SC we are happy to announce that we are now a certified …

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The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee inspires 3D printed silverware

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations were out of this world, and they inspired silversmithing business Silver Lady to work with Barnsley DMC 02’s MakerLab to produce a 3D printed piece of military silverware using Formlabs technology. Funded by the Digital Innovation for Growth (DIfG) programme, MakerLab helps small and medium-sized businesses grow their business with …

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How Ultimaker 3D Printers Are Used in Education

3D Printing in Education     Depending on how intricately you embed yourself into it, using 3D printing in education means you can deliver doses of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, making a 3D printer the ultimate STEM learning tool, that virtually anyone can use. Educators who dismiss 3D printing as too expensive or too …

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Who are Lynxter? – Introducing a new technology at Additive-X

We are incredibly excited to partner with Lynxter to bring you a new 3D printing technology that prints filaments, liquids and pastes.      Additive manufacturing is unbeatably versatile, but one of the often-cited limitations is that if you want to manufacture absolutely everything with one machine, you’re out of luck – 3D printers are …

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