#TOP5 videos of the week: HP 3D prints spare parts and more!
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Top 1: HP 3D prints spare parts
If a part in your machine is breaking down, you might not have to change the whole thing anymore. HP 3D prints spare parts now thanks to their Multi Jet Fusion. The American manufacturer has a new service called HP Customer Support that provides spare parts to its customers around the world. If your 2D printer is broken, you can request the defective part from the manufacturer. This service is now working with additive manufacturing. HP Customer Support uses Multi Jet Fusion technology to design tailor-made parts at significantly more cost and time saving manner, for both the company and the customer. So now you can get your updates when HP 3D prints spare parts.
Top 2: 3D printing concepts into realities
Using 3D printing in the service of design can bring concept into realities. Do you remember our meeting with Aaron Sims Creative, the Californian design studio behind the famous creature of the Demogorgon from the series Stranger Things. By working with 3D printing and especially Formalabs SLA technology, the studio was able to create different very realistic iterations of this character and propose to the filmmakers an authentic final version. Check out how 3D printing is being used to make concepts into real physical figures.
Top 3: 4D printing furniture
By using 4D printing when designing, a 3D printed part can now change shape and structure when exposed to a certain stimulus. If you will, imagine an object that bends over itself in contact with heat for example. It can lead to a particular point for the furniture industry where one could have furniture that basically will be able to assemble itself independently.
Top 4: 3D printing Tortoise Shell
Professor David Van Ness uses 3D technologies in the service of science and art and has a manufacturing space in his space at college. With these tools and through modeling and 3D printing, he created a carapace for Daisy, the tortoise who had small holes in its shell after a car rolled over it. It took 3 to 4 days for them to scan the shell, whereafter the missing parts were 3D printed with a Makerbot machine. We have previously shown how 3D printing can help animals as well, and this great initiative proves it ones again with 3D technology helping to restore the tortoise’s shell!
Top 5: UPS 3D printing solution
UPS is one company that shows how additive manufacturing could impact logistics and inventory dematerialisation. This video presents and reinforces this idea and further slightly joins the solution proposed by HP of which we spoke above. UPS has developed a 3D printing service that makes the parts you need on demand. UPS 3D Printing Solutions helps professionals maintain a high level of productivity.
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