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Advanced Methods For Making Better Mold Tools

Recent innovations in tooling construction with conformal heating and cooling channels open up exciting new possibilities for part designs with improved throughput and lower costs. Product developers and engineers now have access to new techniques made possible by additive manufacturing which promise enormous benefits in productivity, cost savings and finished part quality. Let’s take a look […]

Why Must We Make Things So Complicated?

A brief look at watches, clocks and other timepieces, and our timeless fascination with spinning gears. What Is A Complication? A watch complication is essentially any movement that displays more than the mere hour, minute or second. This is the face of the world’s most complicated watch, by Vacheron Constantin. Dubbed rather unimaginatively as Ref. […]

3D Printing Makes the Lightest Materials on Earth

Boeing Corporation released a video recently announcing the development of a new metallic material, considered to be the lightest ever created. And depending on who you ask, it probably is. But over the last several years there’s been a lot of talk about which is the lightest – we keep pushing the boundaries of material […]

Star Rapid Is Service Provider Of The Year At 3D Printing World

On October 9th and 10th, Star Rapid attended the 3D Printing World Expo recently held in Mumbai, India. Here is Star’s India representative Mr. Nishant Shah (right) accepting the award for “Service Provider of the Year” from Mr. Shibu John, CEO and President of Trinity Media and Marketing Solutions. Trinity was the organizer of the event, […]

3D Printing On The Smallest Scale Possible

In which we explore the marriage between classical art, tragedy, love, science, 3D printing, inspiration and ultimately the fleeting nature of reality. Or something like that. Above is a statue in the Louvre of the Greek god Cupid reviving his sleeping lover Psyche with a kiss. In the ancient tale of Metamorphoses, Psyche is separated […]

Mid-Autumn Festival And Chinese National Day

You might think by looking at the calendar that tomorrow is Saturday the 26th of September, but that really depends on who you ask. Here in China, many folks still follow the lunar calendar rather than the solar calendar of the western world. So in China, tomorrow is the 15th day of the 8th month, […]