‘Styli’ze Handheld Video Game Devices, Tablet PCs and PDAs

Shapeways is partnering exclusively with MQast™ to add some personal style to styli.

Over 766,500 Nintendo DS’s sold in June 2009 - with all those small electronic devices being released with a boring standard stylus, gamers can look to Shapeways to custom design their own stylus in metal!

Shapeways uses the technique of 3D printing in metal to ensure that optimal quality will last a lifetime. The price of a custom metal stylus is $29.50, which includes shipping.

‘Styli’ze your handheld video game devices, tablet PCs and PDAs with your own Stylus at www.shapeways.com/creator/stylus.

New Venture for 3D Systems and Scicon

3D Systems and Scicon Technologies, have partnered up for the new joint venture, MQast™.

MQast™ is a new online business that provides metal parts directly to end-users. By bringing inventions from both companies together, MQast™ supplies parts that have superior metallurgy and part quality provided all within 3 days!

Check out the example MQast™ parts in this video, which include a medical instrument with details and passageways made directly with stainless steel and an aluminum part with high resolution, crispness and sound metallurgy, which is fully-dense and is certifiable and matches the detail of die-cast type parts.

MQast™ is ideal for anyone interested in metal parts for prototyping and for short-run production. The new technology provides detail in aluminum and stainless steel parts that has been difficult to achieve previously.

Scott Turner and Chuck Hull featured in the video are happy to look at any customer requirements and start doing business with you! Contact them through the website www.mqast.com!

Design World Magazine Interview with Abe Reichental

Larry Boulden recently chatted with Abe Reichental to discuss what’s new and exciting in the world of additive manufacturing.

Watch in this video as Larry Boulden, Senior Editor of Design World Magazine, interviews Abe Reichental, President and CEO of 3D Systems, to learn more about 3D Systems’ major developments.

Listen in to hear about the stand-out developments that Design World Magazine readers are excited about!

Meet a Pro: The sPro™ 60 SLS® Center

Meet the latest 3D Systems sintering system, the sPro™ 60 SLS® Center!

The sPro™ SLS® Center is the latest of four generations of systems that builds parts with unprecedented toughness, durability, unmatched surface quality, feature resolution and accuracy. The system has unprecedented throughput, up to two times the throughput of past generation systems!

Watch in this video as Kevin McAlea, 3D Systems’ Vice-President and General Manager of Rapid Manufacturing Solutions, explains 2 types of parts built using the sintering process: a Child’s Car Seat and an Aircraft Air Duct.

The Child’s Car Seat is made with 3D Systems’ DuraForm® EX material – one of our most durable materials! This is an advanced prototype built in the sintering process and is used in actual crash testing. Its properties are good enough to simulate molded material and allow companies to avoid tooling for as long as possible in the design cycle.

SLS® technology is also suited for Direct Manufacturing applications! In Kevin’s second example, he discusses an Aircraft Air Duct. This duct was made directly in the SLS® process and one of its main advantages - no tooling is required! It has custom baffles to optimize the design, and by skipping the tooling process the overall part is made much more economically.

Leave it to the Pros at 3D Systems for quality sintering parts!

V-Flash® Webinar July 22

On July 22nd, learn how you can Dream It. Design It. V-Flash® It. - right at your desk!

No more waiting in line at the 3D printing machine - This revolutionary desktop modeler is commercially available! With a base price below $10,000, this compact, fast and convenient 3-D printer is ideal for Additive Fabrication in offices, schools and homes.

Don’t miss out on this last opportunity to see V-Flash® applications, ease of use and functionality!

Learn more about 3D Systems’ V-Flash® Desktop Modeler in the upcoming Webinar:

Wed July 22, 2009 11:00 AM EDT

Register Today!

V-FLASH® Desktop 3D Printer Webinar July 10!

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn more about the 3D Systems V-Flash® Desktop 3D Printer, it's applications, ease of use and functionality. Take a few minutes - it may offer you hours in return!

Listen in, ask questions, view demonstrations!

The one-hour opportunity begins Friday, July 10, @ 1:00pm Eastern Time.

See how the V-Flash® Desktop Modeler can make your job easier and faster.

Register Online Today!

Busy Dental Practices Incorporating New 3D Techniques

3D Systems’ SLA® technology is part of a new digital technique that is transforming the way busy dental practices are scanning and fabricating dental restorations.

A recent case study on the 3M ESPE Lava™ Chairside Oral Scanner (C.O.S.) explains how the C.O.S. captures 3D data with highly-accurate scans of patient teeth, which the dental labs use to create SLA® models for dental restorations such as crowns, inlays, onlays and bridges.

In the study by The Dental Advisor, the C.O.S. technique was preferred by the patients over traditional techniques. One doctor quoted that when asked which system the patient preferred, the scan was preferred over the impression 90% of the time. Some of the patient comments included:

• "The scan is so much easier than the impression. I would rather have the scan any day in place of the regular impression."
• "I don’t like the feeling of an impression tray when I bite down. It is uncomfortable."
• "Loved it! Incredible! Nothing to it. This is exciting technology!"

Using the digital impression to create the SLA® model also proved to be more accurate as opposed to the traditional method.

Check out 3D Systems’ Dental Solutions at www.toptobottomdental.com.

Read The Dental Advisor case study here.