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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 [...]
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, [...]
Check out this impressive video that shows 35 SLA machines manufacturing 40,000 parts a day (8 to 10 million pieces per year)! More sources are emerging for Additive Manufacturing (AM) cost-savings in the dental field. 3D Systems, Quickparts parent company, has expanded its product line and material offerings to compete strongly in this arena with its [...]
Another finish option available for the stereolithography (SLA) process and additive manufactured processes in general is to have parts nickel plated after fabrication. The process of adding a metal coating over an SLA model enhances the stiffness of the model. In addition, it improves the overall strength of the part. The strong stiff metal layer deposited on the outer surfaces [...]
