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Introducing the Ultimaker 2+ and Ultimaker 2 Extended+ 3D Printers
Ultimaker has just launched 2 new 3D printers at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Las Vegas 2016. The new printers revealed today are the Ultimaker 2+ and Ultimaker 2 Extended+, which are the latest iterations of the hugely popular and award-winning Ultimaker 2 family of 3D printers. These two new successors to the Ultimaker 2 and Ultimaker 2 Extended were developed based on the company's extensive experience and know-how in 3D printing technology, as well as the close collaborations with Ultimaker's own user community. According to Ultimaker's CEO Jos Burger, "The Ultimaker 2+ and Ultimaker 2 Extended+ are results of countless collaborations...
Siemens and Ultimaker
Siemens has always been synonymous with innovation whose Research & Development is in their life blood. Annually Siemens invest over 6 billion dollars in their Research & Development. Jamie McDyre, Head of Freight and Products – ASEAN Pacific, Mobility says “Siemens is moving away from just looking at the factory floor, into considering the whole value chain now, and what that allows us to do, using 3D printing etc, it allow us to bring that process to our customers, and bring them into our design processes early on.” 3D printing allows Siemens to get their customers involved by bringing...
Ultimakers in an Australia Post Near you?
Australia Post featured the Ultimaker² 3D printers provided by Imaginables at their annual Customer Summit to show customers how they’re exploring 3D printing as a service offering in post offices. Imaginables trained a group of Australia Post employees on the design process and operating the machines, and helped them create Australia Post trucks and key rings to give away to customers at the expo. Australia Post, Managing Director and Group CEO, Ahmed Fahour, said in the Australian Financial Review, "Some things you want, like household items, could be printed right there and then rather than waiting for it. This is...
3D Print your Carbon-Fibre Bike
Earlier this year the Team at Colorfabb, challenged their interns to develop a 3d printable design that would be ready-to-use. “At colorFabb we are trying to get the most possible out of these desktop 3D printers,” says the company. Stephan Schürmann rose to the challege and 3D Printed a fully functioning bicycle on an Ultimaker Original + fitted with a 0.8mm nozzle using their Carbon Fibre Filament the XT-CF20 “We do this by exploring new materials solutions. The bike concept is focusing on printing functional parts that will be mechanically loaded. For printing them we selected colorFabb_XT-CF20 because of its outstanding high...
Sweco Architects shares their Architectural design process
One such inspiring story is that of Henrik Bejmar, an architect working for Sweco, the largest architectural and engineering consultancy firm in Europe. Headquartered in the beautiful city of Stockholm, he’s helping a team of architects create a monumental new development in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The project contains over 280 hectares, which will hold over 60.000 to 90.000 apartments and 200.000 office spaces once finished. To help bring their ideas to life they needed a rapid prototyping tool they could rely on every day to create models with tight deadlines. So they turned to 3D printing and started using the...