Our goal was to design and print a part that could be expanded to a larger size. VoXup allows the designer to print a small part based on voxels and scale it up! In a 2D world shapes and geometries are formed with units of pixels. In the 3D CAD world, the unit is...
Category: Manufacturing
What happened to the brigde? – Perfect Steel.
Why is half the bridge gone ? Original Picture Source : Wikimedia It should look like this. Source : Wikimedia All metals used today to build structures , especially steel and Aluminum are strong but not as strong as they should be. In theory steel should be 10 to 30 times stronger than it...
Partial Indirect Extrusion (PIE)
The extrusion process, is a technology in which a metal material (usually heated to below melting point, or worked cold) is pressed in a sppecially designed container with one opening , which is the forming die. Through the opening the metal flows outward in a prism form with section similar to the designed die...