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Melbourne Health Accelerator
Last week, on the 22nd of May 2017, Special Minister of State Gavin Jennings joined health professionals and researchers at the Royal Melbourne Hospital to launch the new Melbourne Health Accelerator (MHx) program. As an Australian first, MHx will work with clinicians and researchers as they develop new technologies to tackle some of the most pressing and emerging challenges facing our healthcare system today. The program will also cultivate commercially viable answers to complex healthcare challenges, by connecting health professionals and leading medical research experts with health technology start-ups.MHx will allow health professionals and researches access to a Maker Space...
Print Lab Solution
DIGITAL PROTOTYPING RESEARCH LAB- AKU Our Sales Partner Septillion in Thailand recently shared with us, the South East Asian 3D Printer Farm Management System with Ultimaker 3D printers controlled by the cloud. The facility is accessible by their faculty of architecture, science. Agronomy at the Digital Prototyping Research Lab-Aku. The Print Lab currently consist of 15 Ultimaker 2+s all connected via 3D PrinterOS to the cloud. ----------------------- IMAGINABLES PRINT LAB Imaginables have also recently set up a 14 printer Print Lab here in Victoria recently with Ultimaker 3 Extended. The biggest Ultimaker Print lab in Australia. Details of...
Using Infill Mesh with CURA
Have you tried the new infill mesh function in Ultimaker CURA? You can now determine very easily sections of your 3d model to have different #mesh density, pattern, wall thickness etc to make more functional 3d Print Picture attached is and experiment on a finger making the joints more flexible with less infill. The last image is showing a dense infill mesh on the handle of a mallet.Other application would be to make a section of a part more durable while minimising print material for the non essential parts. This was done on an Ultimaker 2 but if you do...
The New Ultimaker 3
Ultimaker, the leading open source 3D printer manufacturer, announced today the global availability of the next generation of its 3D printing product line, the Ultimaker 3 and the Ultimaker 3 ExtendedWith Ultimaker 3’s advanced capability to print complex geometries using industrial-grade materials right from the desktop, users gain freedom of design never before accessible in the professional environment. Fully integrated hardware, software and materials configuration, as well as full settings alignment, ensures both efficient workflow and precision print results. Ultimaker 3 New Features With the Ultimaker 3, professional and reliable 3D printing is now available for multiple users across the...
Food Safe 3D Printing
Nothing captures the imagination like the idea of 3D Printed Food. The awe-inspiring idea of 3D printed food perhaps was best captured in the 80s by the classic cartoon The Jetsons. Who remembers how Poor ol' loving mum, Jane Jetson "slaving" away in the kitchen by simply pressing a few buttons to cook up instant dinner for the family? Jetsons by Hanna-Barbera / via Google Image We were inspired to write an article about food and 3D printing after coming across an Ultimaker user's new food startup called Dreampops in our previous post. Food safety in 3D printing is actually quite complicated...