Friday, September 9, 2016

Solid Concepts 3D Printing And Some Of Its Other Services

By Ruth Green


3D printing is a process of transforming a concrete object into a realistic model through setting down several thin layers of a certain material. This is called as the additive process. This starts in making virtual designs of a certain object that you want. The virtual design is a computer aided design file. The CAD file is being produced through the use of a modeling application or a scanner.

Different technologies such as volumetric scanning, time of flight, and modulated or structured flight are used by scanners to make the model. There are a lot of big companies already who are using 3D scanning for a hardware, and thus, it can be concluded that digitizing objects in the near future will be very much easy. Solid concepts 3D printing is aiming on producing more real designs that are affordable and are produced in a fastest way.

It is a rapid prototyping company which is privately owned. It also involves production and engineering. It is also a service provider for additive manufacturing and a manufacturer as well for unmanned systems, business products, transportation parts, aerospace, medical equipment and devices, foundry cast patterns, and industrial equipment and design.

But it really focuses only to 3D printing by rapid prototyping. By last year, they were able to produce a 3D metal gun, and they call it 1911 pistol. Powdered metals with a direct metal laser sintering was used in the production. Global press became so much interested when this first printing of their metal gun was made.

It was really a functional gun, and it was even fired 500 times in its endurance test. It was made up of inconel ingredients and stainless steel. And its hand grip is is made up of a carbon fiber filled of nylon which is decorated with laser sintering. Each gun part has utilized the sintered direct metal laser except for the gun springs.

This made the company think and wish that with this product, it would motivate printing concepts to be viable solutions in any modern manufacturing today. The company aims to apply their novelty for customers who are looking for a custom printed weapons. And by this, they proved reliability, usability, and accuracy of metal printing by developing this product.

The printed 1911 pistol was made a sequel. This new created pistol design is called the reason. It is made up of inconel powder and metal laser with direct sintering of a steel which is stainless. The reason has a lot more improvements on its details when being compared to the 1911 pistol.

The pistol shows every smooth feature of it. It has a partially hollow trigger and hammer. The trigger has the initial of the person who is the project manager of the firearms subsidiary. The front grip represents the introduction of the declaration of independence.

Some people keeps on asking why other people needs to have customized guns. In the near future, surely that the electronic components that are to be used can easily be printed to objects, and these customized guns will fit to a certain individual. And another thing is for safety. Some guns can only be fired by the owner, and finger print recognition will be used to recognize other people who uses it.




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