3D Design, Engineering & Reverse Engineering

Design For Additive Manufacture (3D Printing)

Orthogonal’s know-how and experience with High Temperature Polymers and expertise in DfAM - Design for Additive Manufacturing - provides you with full engineering support, ensuring that manufactured parts meet the required operating standards. Full process control and traceability provide you with confidence on part accuracy and repeatability.

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Reverse Engineering

High Resolution scanner imaging a bracket which is mounted on a rotating turntable

edited and clean scanned image of a bracket turned into a STL image

bracket image created from autosurfacing the scanned image to create a NURBS surface 3D object

Computer Aided Design graphic showing a 3D part (bracket) with dimensions which has been modelled from the NURBS file

final bracket image which has been altered using generative design to optimise material usage

graphic showing the image scanning process, from creating a Point cloud mesh through to final NURBS Surfacing object

3D Printing in Metal, Carbon Fibre Polyamides or Plastics and Resins using either Fused Filament Fabrication or Low Force Stereolithography 3D printers

Fused Fabrication 3D printer, printing a 3D object

3D FFF Printer

Stereolithography (SLA) 3D Printer, with associated Ultra Violet Cure and Chemical wash stations

SLA Printer

BASF Ultrafuse Metal filament with a small stainless steel valve printed on a 3D printer using that type of filament

BASF Ultrafuse Metal Printing