Congratulations to our January QuickNOTES trivia question WINNER! ….. L.G. from Woodstream Corp. (http://www.woodstream.com/). Question: According to the “YouTube Videos” tab located on the Quickparts Facebook page (Watch it here!), what is the name of Johnny Quickparts’ love interest that is revealed in Episode 4: Johnny Learns About Stereolithography? Answer: Dr. Wang As a prize, [...]
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If you’re an engineer in New Product Development and have ever used Quickparts to buy custom designed parts, you probably already have a couple of these in your closet. Well here is your chance to WIN our NEWLY redesigned moisture wicking Performance Golf Shirt! Simply Email us the correct answer to the question below by January [...]
NEW Shore Hardness Scale Choosing the best prototype material for your application can be tricky. One property that is especially difficult to understand and relate to is the Shore Hardness Value. Shore hardness measures the elasticity of a material. Quickparts has created a scale that relates different Shore values to everyday products allowing you to [...]
Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) has become a reliable and trusted form of rapid prototyping due to its structural properties. It is particularly useful when the design is complex, custom, and needs to be functional or requires short run production. In SLS a laser beam selectively fuses or sinters powder materials, nylon, or elastomer materials. It produces [...]
Every Picture Tells a Story. Share Yours Today!! At Quickparts, we ship over 1,000 orders of custom parts each month, each with its own story to tell. We are always amazed at the wide variety of customers that we have and all of the various uses of the parts we produce. This month we are [...]
While the primary processes of additive manufacturing have not changed greatly over their lives, the intense focus on the materials has allowed for this area to develop into a fairly mature offering of choices for the user. What makes this a bit more complicated is that the technology path of each of the RP processes (Stereolithography, [...]
3D Systems Corporation (NYSE: DDD) announced today that Quickparts® supported Redfish Instruments through its design and development of a new and innovative iDVM digital Multimeter, controlled entirely through a downloaded mobile application. Redfish Instruments’ (www.redfishinstruments.com) new iDVM device is the world’s first Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod-touch enabled digital multimeter, which wirelessly transmits voltage, current, [...]
1. File Resolution: STL format has become the standard for rapid prototype manufacturing. This format approximates the surface of a design using triangles. The resolution of the STL file plays an important role in the quality of the prototype produced. Due to the limitations of most prototyping processes the recommended facet resolution is 0.002“ to [...]
Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) is an additive manufacturing process that is commonly used for rapid prototyping and production applications. Unlike many other prototyping processes, the build materials with FDM are actual production quality thermoplastics which are melted and finely extruded to create two-dimensional cross sections of the model. Each layer quickly solidifies and the next [...]
