We are showing at this years Offshore Europe Exhibition between 5th to 8th September. We are exhibiting on the Business Angus stand (2E46) during this Exhibition, so we are looking forward to showing off the services we provide in conjunction with the team from Business Angus. Come and visit the Business Angus team and find …
3D printing continues to develop and to be a big influence in developing concept ideas to a prototype part to check ‘Fit, Form & Function’ and now being used on production components. However, like all manufacturing processes & services there are potential pitfalls and the 3D printing industry suffer from these also. Some of these …
Firstly, how does 3D printing work? The principle is similar to the traditional ink-jet printer you use for printing ink on paper. The main difference being the ink printers only print one level and 3D printing print several plastic or rubber (even metal) layers producing a part with depth. (The 3rd dimension). The printer head …
You will be faced at some point to move from the Prototype stage to the Production phase. This can be daunting as it bring additional challenges as it is never as easy as simply ordering more prototype product. Your Production product may not be even made in the same manner as the Prototype. This may …
Our MJP (Multi Jet Printing) ProJet 3600 has a large build plate and amazingly high definition. We use this 3D printer to make plastic parts in a large variety of properties, for our customers throughout Scotland. This has helped our customers to speed up their iteration cycle for design and testing. Our MJP printer gives …
New window and signage installed this week. A big thanks to Bob Simpson (Dad) for doing a magnificent job on the window and Turner Graphics for the signage. What a difference this has made to the office.
We have had another week at Angus 3D Solutions. The new 3D Systems Projet MJP 3600 printer arrived and was installed and the training completed. The detail and quality of the test parts printed this week are amazing. We managed to print some customer parts on this machine and have these delivered to their office …
A busy week, moved in to our new premises, had our first customer visit, introduced our company to new customers, dealing with some interesting enquires, took delivery of our new 3D Printer. A great week. Next week will be even busier with the team from isodo3d flying in to complete the printer installation and training. …
Receiving the keys for our new premises from Fiona McDonald of Business Angus. I would like to thank all the team at Business Angus for their support in our new venture.
We use jigs & fixtures to help with repeatability and maintain precision, these primarily reducing time and human error during production. The downside is the time and cost associated in manufacturing specialised tools and jigs & fixtures and the lack of ability to change them at the last minute. 3D printing removes these traditional challenges …