Voir c’est croire. Les imprimantes 3D de Leapfrog aident les cabinets d’architecte à saisir plus d’opportunités en créant des modèles complexes et durables en interne.
Transformez facilement des croquis et des dessins modèle (numériques) en des modèles tangibles et nos imprimantes 3D sont parfaites pour des études de forme.
Pour les détaillants il existe une pléiade d’opportunités à saisir en intégrant l’impression en 3D dans des processus dans l’ensemble de leurs activités.
Bien que l’impression 3D ait beaucoup retenu l’attention à cause du fait qu’elle pouvait réduire les coûts de fabrication, les détaillants peuvent aussi largement en tirer des bénéfices dans l’interaction avec les clients.
Préparer les étudiants pour leur futures carrière et leur enseigner de précieuses compétences ne sont pas les seuls aspects importants de la mise en place de l’impression 3D dans les programmes éducatifs.
Cela sert d’outil extrêmement révolutionnaire pour aider dans de nombreux domaines de formation et apporter aux enseignants de nouvelles manières de faire passer leur message !
L’impression 3D de bureau a connu une croissance rapide ces dernières années. Les ingénieurs en mécanique, les entreprises d’ingénierie et les services recherche et développement ont reconnu ce que l’impression 3D pouvait apporter à ces processus opérationnels et ont commencé à expérimenter la technologie de l’impression 3D.
Nous constatons désormais que l’impression 3D est complètement intégrée dans le flux de travail de ces entreprises étant donné que cela apporte une valeur significative dans la conceptualisation d’éléments et de produits.
Date: 09/30/2015 - 10/01/2015
Stand: not yet known
TCT Show + Personalize is one of the world’s leading events dedicated to 3D printing, additive manufacturing and product development. TCT showcases over 200 exhibitors and dozens of worldclass speakers to almost 10,000 attendees. In 2015, the twentieth TCT will once again serve as a launch pad for groundbreaking innovations, applications and technologies.
URL: TCT Show
Date: 10/16/2015 - 10/17/2015
Stand: not yet known
Carrousel Du Louvre is one of Paris’ most iconic landmarks. Set between The Louvre and Place Du Carrousel, it’s status as an elegant Parisian landmark was further cemented when its famous skylight, the La Pyramide Inversée (the inverted pyramid) featured in Hollywood blockbuster The DaVinci Code.
Made up of four elegant rooms, the Carrousel du Louvre’s 7,100 m2 has hosted some of Paris’ most stylish events, including Thermalies, Marriage at the Carrousel, The Grand Tasting, Art Shopping, The Carrousel of Crafts and Design, Belles Montres and more.
3D Printshow Paris is honoured to bring the world’s most exciting future tech to the unique cultural and historical environment of the Louvre and The Tuileries Gardens within one of the world’s most glamorous capital cities.
URL: 3D Printshow Paris
3D Printing in the dental market will reach $3.1 billion by 2020, according to a report by SmarTech. SmarTech has published three reports focusing particularly on the three industries where 3D printing is widely expected to see rapid and real, transformational growth – jewelry, medical, and dental. In this blog we will focus on the dental industry.
The dental industry is transforming into a fully-digital one quicker than most dentists imagined, and 3D technologies are completely altering the way in which dental solutions can be approached thanks to its ability to print a variety of complex shapes on demand, in a variety of applicable materials, in significant volumes.
No other industry currently adopting 3D printing has the same combination of high value, high performance, and high volume parts required by the dental industry, making 3D printing a near perfect fit for true disruption and game changing capability compared to existing traditional methods of production.
In fact, dentistry is such a good fit for the principal value of 3D printing, that nearly every 3D printing process and major provider can apply its technology to the space in some way –although not all do today, they may in the future. Both polymer and metallic applications exist in significant variety, for everything from surgical guides and models, casting and tools to aid in traditional techniques, to actual dental restorative components for both temporary and permanent solutions.
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We asked our engineers to do something fun with this topic and the pictures below will show you the result. The Leapfrog Xeed is fully equipped to print multiple high quality teeth prints in one go.
In this article we would like to show you how the orthodontic sector can increase revenue with clear aligners! In Augustus 2015, two companies operating in the orthodontic sector started using the Leapfrog Xeed for printing scanned teeth that function as a mold for so called “Clear Aligners” “Clear Aligners are an alternative to traditional braces and are designed to help guide teeth into their proper position. Similar to braces, clear aligners use a gradual force to control tooth movement, but without metal wires or brackets.
Process: Scanning > Aligning > Printing > Thermomolding
Thomas Wais from WRC – Tech Austria & LAB M&W Zahn technique receives gypsium molds of patient’s teeth from dentists in Austria. Thomas scans the molds using a 10 micron resolution 3shape scannerbox. In Barcelona, Tessa Limargas from Ortoteam & Esthetic Aligner Team is doing the same, however she uses besides a scanner box also a handheld scanner that scans directly into the patients mouth skipping the process of making gypsum molds. In both cases a scan is created from the patients teeth, which is loaded into a software program Otrhoanalyser 3shape to virtually align the patient’s teeth. The virtual model can be printed on a Leapfrog Xeed 3D printer. As last step both companies use a thermomolding machine to press foil over the printed teeth resulting in a clear aligner.
Tessa Limargas mentions that It depends on the severity of the teeth malposition it takes more or less time to have teeth aligned. During this period of time, the teeth are aligned in as many stages as needed. For each stage a new print and new foil is necessary. It’s hard to say how many aligners are needed because it depends on the misalignment of teeth, however sometimes more than 6 teeth and aligners are necessary. Reason for us to use the Leapfrog Xeed 3D printer, is that it’s a professional FDM 3D printer delivering enough resolution and speed, however more important is the possibility to place up to 15 ABS models in one print session on the bed.
Regular FDM desktop printers have often already difficulties printing a single ABS model without warping & deforming of the print. We tried with a Makerbot desktop FDM 3D printer however failed. Warping & deforming is a big issue with ABS. We need ABS material to stand the pressure and heat created during the thermomolding process. After a brief training from Leapfrog we were confident enough that the Xeed could do the job. The Xeed is now running 24/7. Main benefit for us is that the Xeed enables us to print our own models instead of using a third party 3D print provider which increasing our efficiency and production time, making us more independent.
Thomas Wais explains that he started exploring the market for a 3D printer three months ago and at first was strongly directed towards the Objet 30 using the Polyjet print technique. However purchasing cost for this machine was far above my budget let alone material and maintenance cost of several thousands of Euro’s yearly necessary to run the Objet machine. After comparing specs of different 3D printers & techniques, my attention was shifted towards the professional, but far more affordable Leapfrog Xeed 3D printer using fused deposition modeling technique (FDM). To compare, a printed model from an objet printer will cost me between 15 and 30 Euro’s.
However from the Xeed 3D printer costs us merely a few Euro’s taking into account material cost, electricity cost and depreciation of the machine. Also the maintenance of the Xeed (which is almost none) can be preformed by a lab member with no technical back ground and is limited to swapping a nozzle or hot end once in a while (compared to changing a toner from a 2D printer). The Xeed saves us between 15K and 20K per year compared to the Objet printer and no downtime is involved since we do not have stop production while waiting for maintenance from a certified company. We are producing with success for one month already and printed ABS teeth without making any concession on quality of our products.
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On our professional architect page we say that the Xeed is the best 3D printer for Architects, but our Leapfrog Creatr HS is also a very good and affordable option! This is the perfect machine to get familiar with 3D printing and to start saving money at the same time! Say goodbye to sticky fingers building your maquettes out of cardboard, wood and glue! Overwhelm you customers with 3D printed designs and shape studies. With a 3D Printer it is a matter of having a good digital model and a slicing software that creates .STL files and press print!
We are pretty sure you are capable of creating a good digital model, but did you know that the Creatr HS series comes with the Creatr software, powered by Materialise, for free?
But there are more reasons why you should use a Leapfrog 3D Printer as an Architect. Like we said before, it will become very easy to transform sketches and model drawings (digital) to tangible models and it is the perfect tool for shape studies.
This tangible models can be a valuable way of communicating ideas to colleagues as well as towards the client. Your client may not always be capable to read or understand 3D drawings created on a computer, but when they can hold a model in their hands he or she will just love it!
Now you have to spend a lot of time in the modeling space. Just turn on the 3D Printer and you can continue with other important work while your printer does all the work. Time is money, right? Since you save time on building the model by hand, you can now spend more time on developing different concepts of the model.
3D printing can not only be used for sketch models, also presentation models can be printed to quickly pitch designs
Design freedom: double-curved surfaces and specific details often require considerable time and are difficult to create.
But do you want to build BIGGER? Please have a look at our Creatr HS XL. Think big, move fast!
For any questions don't hesitate contact our sales team, they are more then happy to advise along the way.
Yeah! What a great feeling!! Now one of our secretely most wanted items can be 3D printed! I’m obviously talking about the Dutch wooden shoe! 3D Printing wood filament is now possible with our Leapfrog Creatr HS 3D Printers. There is no better give-away-present thinkable for a Dutch startup that has clients worldwide, then the wooden shoe. Even multiple prints are possible in one turn, depending on the needed shoe size.
The result is astoundingly. Just print the shoes. It is even possible to sand your shoes, and like the originals your Clogs will smell like wood! Your prints will look absolutely amazing and your 3D printer cave will smell like an authentic woodworking shop!
But of course it doesn’t stop there. Ever build a table or chair with wooden with wooden joints? These small parts are often difficult to maken, but printing these is a breeze! The possibilities are endless. Check out our 3D Printers and start printing yourself!
Although everyone knows what they are and what they look like, they are worn much less frequently nowadays. In fact; clogwearers have become an all but extinct species. Yet it is not so long ago that almost everybody owned a pair of clogs and used them every day. Consequently there were many clogmakers those days, who all made their own models, often in a variety of colours and decorations. This immense diversity in clogs from the past now forms a valuable part of the cultural heritage of the Dutch.
The earliest 3D printing technologies first became visible in the late 1980’s, at which time they were called Rapid Prototyping (RP) technologies. This is because the processes were originally conceived as a fast and more cost-effective method for creating prototypes for product development within the industry. As an interesting note, the very first patent application for RP technology was filed by a Dr. Kodama, in Japan May 1980. Unfortunately for Dr. Kodama, the full patent specification was subsequently not filed before the one year deadline after the application. Which is particularly disastrous considering that he was a patent lawyer himself! In real terms, however, the origins of 3D printing can be traced back to 1986, when the first patent was issued for stereolithography apparatus (SLA). This patent belonged to one Charles (Chuck) Hull, who first invented his SLA machine in 1983. Hull went on to co-found 3D Systems Corporation — one of the largest and most prolific organizations operating in the 3D printing sector today.
Leapfrog 3D Printers aims to make high tech 3D printing techniques and materials easy to use and affordable for a broad user base. Adding value for business- and educational customers is the core of our existence. We form partnerships with different types of professionals, whouse our desktop 3D printers and learn from their experience. This way we can help them and other potential users to capture all the benefits of 3D printing for their application. Whether it is engineering, product design, medical purposes, architectural design or education, together with them, we Create the Future.
The wood filament is a compound of 70%PLA and 30% recycled woodfibers. It is best printed with a .5mm nozzle with an extrusion temperature of 200°C, bed temperature of 40°C and a speed of 150 mm/s.