Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:15:28 -0500 (EST) From: Colin Godfrey Subject: SIGGRAPH/Boston at Z Corp, Wed. Feb 13 SIGGRAPH/Boston Meeting Announcement 3D Printing Technology Dave Russell, Z Corporation Place: Z Corporation 20 North Avenue Burlington, MA Time: Wednesday February 13, 2002 Networking time will start at 6:00 pm. The feature presentation will start at 7:00. 3D printing is the process of automatically and rapidly producing real physical objects directly from CAD models. Z corporation of Burlington is a manufacturer of 3D printers, and recently placed first in the annual Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50 growth rankings for New England (http://www.public.deloitte.com/fast500/index.shtm). 3D printers incorporate mechanical, electrical, software and material components. Z Corp's web site gives an overview of the technology at http://www.zcorp.com. Dave Russell, Director of Engineering, will coordinate a presentation that will include: * An overview of the Rapid Prototyping industry and history of Z Corporation, including a discussion of the 10 or so commercialized approaches to additive fabrication. Z Corp. is a recent arrival on the scene with an interesting origin, an interesting money source and an interesting technical orientation. * A plant tour and machine demonstration. The presentation may include bringing up a design application, modeling a simple part, and sending it to the printer. While the machine is printing, its parts will be shown and their function discussed. * A display of representative printed parts and a discussion of their properties and uses. A diverse set of printed parts will be shown. The discussion will include their physical properties, an overview of what they are used for, and give details on a specific case or two. * A discussion of some of the key technical features of 3D Printing. This will include inkjet printheads, the properties of the materials the parts are printed from, and some of mechanical issues with keeping the machines running in hostile environments. Dave Russell graduated from MIT in Mechanical Engineering in 1964. He did engineering design work in satellite reconnaissance, powered prosthetics, special automation, plastics processing and UV projection systems prior to joining Z Corporation in 1995. ************************************************************************ Directions: Z Corp is located at 20 North Avenue in Burlington, MA, in the Northeast Industrial Park off Middlesex Turnpike, North of the Burlington Mall. >From I95/128 take Exit 32-Middlesex Turnpike, go North on the Middlesex Turnpike past the Burlington Mall.Turn left into the Northwest Park on 4th Avenue. Take a right at the stop sign onto North Avenue. Z Corporation is located at 20 North Avenue on the right. Detailed directions are also at http://www.zcorp.com/content/about/print/directions.html. ************************************************************************ SIGGRAPH/Boston Contacts WWW: http://www.siggraph.org/chapters/boston SIGGRAPH/Boston maintains a mailing list for e-mail announcements of meetings. Send e-mail to siggraphdistrib-request@cs.umb.edu if you want be added to or dropped from this list. _______________________________________________ Cone-cal mailing list Cone-cal@blu.org http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/cone-cal