Rapid Ready Technology Making digital designs physical

The agency recently awarded $100,000 to two teams that have completed the first printing segment of the challenge.

Formlabs' Fuse 1 brings previously expensive and complex selective laser sintering (SLS) technology to the benchtop; Form Cell automates additive manufacturing.

By streamlining 3D post-processing, Rize's augmented polymer deposition technology enables additive manufacturing to take on short-run, end-use production parts applications and moves the 3D printer onto the engineer’s desktop.

The system will employ a methodology the team dubs SAM-CT (Size, Accuracy and Materials + Economic Evaluation of Cost and Throughput) to determine 3D printing viability.

Company's recent Additive Manufacturing Symposium highlights challenges and opportunities in combining design and simulation with additive and traditional manufacturing.