Additive manufacturing

How additive manufacturing and 3D scanning improves product quality

Additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D...

5 min read Insights

Additive manufacturing: an overview for modern manufacturers

The word “manufacturing” suggests a...

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From scan to surgery: Understanding workflow for patient-specific implant design

Hip replacement is a very common surgery, one typically used to treat osteoarthritis. In these cases, the...

4 min read Deep dive

Biomedical device makers reshape heads – and lives – with Freeform volumetric software

In recent years, volumetric CAD packages have emerged as the tool of choice for medical modelling. Geomagic...

6 min read Deep dive

How digital manufacturing tools are enabling growth in patient-specific design

Expensive and complicated production processes associated with patient-specific medical devices presented a major obstacle to the wider...

5 min read How-to

Benefits and challenges of patient-specific design

The emergence of additive manufacturing and 3D software have unleashed growth in the patient-specific design industry, with the global...

4 min read How-to

What’s driving the rise of patient-specific design?

Digital revolution is not an empty buzzword, it’s creating meaningful change in people’s lives. A shining example...

3 min read How-to

Designing tomorrow: Harnessing additive manufacturing for sustainable innovations

*Blog post co-authored by Volker Mensing and Mathieu Perennou Over the years we’ve learnt to be wary...

5 min read Strategy

5 tips to optimise design for additive manufacturing

Additive manufacturing is a technology that enables unprecedented design freedom. Being very different from traditional manufacturing processes,...

6 min read How-to

How nature is pushing the boundaries of additive manufacturing

If you thought the origins of additive manufacturing were fairly recent, think again. In 1974, the original...

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How Additive Manufacturing Fits into Existing Reverse Engineering Processes

Additive manufacturing is a class of technologies that automatically construct 3D physical models from computer-aided design files....

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