- #CONTACT PREFORM FORMLABS MOVIE#
- #CONTACT PREFORM FORMLABS SOFTWARE#
- #CONTACT PREFORM FORMLABS PROFESSIONAL#
In 2009, their interests merged in 4.140 (How to Make (Almost) Anything), taught by Neil Gershenfeld, director of the Center for Bits and Atoms. Forming philosophiesįormlabs started just three years ago in the MIT Media Lab, whose “maker” philosophy and entrepreneurial ecosystem inspired the co-founders to build a higher-precision 3-D printer for the masses. Reviewers from Wired and Popular Mechanics, among others, have praised the printer for its high resolution at a low cost.īacked by more than $22 million in funding and growing profits, Formlabs is now renovating another 10,000 square feet in its Somerville headquarters to ramp up production.
#CONTACT PREFORM FORMLABS MOVIE#
“We’re making that high-end usefulness available to an order of magnitude more people.”Įngineers, designers, and inventors - from small businesses to movie studios such as Pixar - have printed out intricate figurines, toys, replacement parts, jewelry, and prototypes.
The high-end, detailed machines have been useful for years for product design, but are unavailable to many,” Lobovsky says. “With the really low-cost printers, it’s a hobbyist or educational thing. “We’ve always seen the Form 1 as a valuable middle point,” says Maxim Lobovsky SM ’11, a Formlabs co-founder and inventor of the printer, along with classmates Natan Linder SM ’11 and David Cranor SM ’11. This process is repeated layer-by-layer, taking several hours and delivering layers as thin as 25 microns - much more finely detailed than other low-cost 3-D printers. After each layer is cured, a mechanical platform lifts the object upward, where the layer is rapidly dried and another melded to it. In the Form 1, a violet laser moves around a bath of light-sensitive polymers, or resin, tracing a predetermined pattern. The desktop printer - standing about a foot high and weighing about 20 pounds - runs on stereolithography, a fabrication technique usually reserved for massive machines that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
#CONTACT PREFORM FORMLABS PROFESSIONAL#
Courtesy of Formlabs.Īgainst the backdrop of today’s burgeoning 3-D printing landscape - with an ever-increasing number of machines popping up - MIT Media Lab spinout Formlabs has carved out a precise niche.Ĭombining a highly accurate (but usually expensive) light-based printing technique with engineering ingenuity, the Formlabs team invented a high-resolution 3-D laser printer, called the Form 1, that’s viewed as an affordable option for professional users. ĮasyRx® is a trademark belonging to EasyRx, LLC.A user works away on Formlabs' Form 1 3-D printer and PreForm software. If you would like more information on EasyRx, please contact Todd Blankenbecler at 1.888.340.3751 or. EasyRx was developed to help practices and labs better manage the entire lab prescription process.
#CONTACT PREFORM FORMLABS SOFTWARE#
EasyRx Integrates with FormLabs Preform softwareĮasyRx is universal lab prescription software for orthodontic practices and labs. Here is a KB article with more information. This integration is another component to integrate EasyRx into the digital workflow of a practice or lab”, said Todd Blankenbecler, President and CEO of EasyRx.
From EasyRx, it is just one click to open the STL files in Preform software. We wanted to make it simple and fast to open a STL file based in EasyRx in FormLabs Preform software. “Many of our customers utilize FormLabs 3D printers for in-office and in-lab 3D printing. It is as easy as clicking the Preform logo from EasyRx to launch Preform and open the selected STL files. EasyRx now integrates with FormLabs Preform software, allowing users to select EasyRx based STL files in EasyRx and open these files in PreForm.
0 kommentar(er)
