3 D P R I N T I N G S U P P L E M E N T
COOL COMPONENTS CLAIM‘fANTASTIC REACTION’TO UP! PlUs 3D PRINTER by
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the UP! Plus in Europe for nearly a year and during that time it’s had a fantastic reaction from users. They’re thrilled with the
WE’vE bEEN SEllINg Mat Fordy,
0.2mm layer thickness and print quality which they basically say is ‘best of class’.You only have to read some of the reviews on-line to see that the printer is rapidly becoming a favourite around the world for budget rapid prototyping. People love the UP! Plus
printer because it isn’t a kit, and can be assembled from box to first print in 15 minutes.You don’t need to be an engineer to get this thing to work at its best!
product manager of Cool
Components Akey feature is that the printer
software automatically adds ‘support structures’ onto your model. This allows overhanging structures to be reliably printed. At the end you just snip the supports off with the supplied wire cutters. Reliability so far has been
excellent.We’ve sold hundreds
of units, and while we’ve had some wear and tear issues from excessive use, there have been no (zero) major failures. Maintenance is minimal, and if
you do need to replace something like a snapped rubber drive belt it’s pretty easy. The
body of the printer comes apart with a few twists of the supplied Allen key, and the internals are uncluttered and designed so that it’s easy to access key parts.
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3D PRINTER SUPPLIERS FEATURE ATTCTLIVE
No doubt, information contained in this issue on 3d printing or rapid prototyping may have whetted your appetite for seeing thesemachines in action. If so you should attend TCT Live, being staged from 27 to 29 September at the NEC. DuncanWood, theMD of
TCT told Technology in Education: “The last twelve months have really been a breakthrough year for 3D printing and additive manufacturing with lots of coverage in the mainstream media. But with technologies like these, reading about them is only a start of it – there is
no substitute for seeing them LIVE.”
‘UK engineering never shies away
from a challenge and at TCT we are proud to present two
unique teams both gunning for world records in 2012’ In addition to seeing the new
technologies in action, visitors will be treated to a full programme of talks by leading figures in the industry, as well as by Richard Noble, project director of the Bloodhound Project, with an address entitled
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‘Time for Big Change, Bring on the Engineers’. Duncan said: “UK engineering
never shies away from a challenge and at TCT we are proud to present two unique teams both gunning for world records in 2012 – Bloodhound SSC and Torpedalo project. Visitors will be able to get close with these fantastic feats of engineering as they will be on site.” Among the speakers from
education are Richard Bibb, senior lecturer, Loughborough Design School; Neil Hopkinson, reader in additive manufacturing/senior enterprise fellow, Loughborough University; Ian Todd, reader in metallurgy, Sheffield University; Hodger
Strauss, project leader R and D, Ostwesllaen-Uppe, University of Applied Sciences, Detmold; and Kelly Sant, senior lecturer in 3D design and materials practice, University of Brighton. There are a number of
suppliers of 3D printers and associated technologies exhibiting at the NEC event that are well known to Technology in Education readers. These includeA1 Technologies, BitsfromBytes, Core Robotics, Emco Education, The Cool Tool, Space Claim and Z Corporation.
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www.technology-in-education.co.uk ’
No, not ‘alas poor Yorick I knew him’, but the UP! Plus 3d printer creating an intricatemodel of a human skull.
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