Desktop Metallic expands world partnership with SolidCAM to 4 new international locations

Desktop Metallic has expanded its world partnership with SolidCAM to 4 new international locations within the Americas, Europe and Asia.

SolidCAM are a worldwide chief in revolutionary Laptop Aided Manufacturing (CAM) software program for Laptop Numerical Management (CNC) machining and distribution of associated digital manufacturing options. 

The corporate grew to become a Desktop Metallic gross sales accomplice in Germany final yr, however will now additionally promote the corporate’s steel additive manufacturing (AM) techniques in the USA, the UK, Israel and India. 

SolidCAM is developing CNC and AM Heart of Excellence showrooms within the US, UK and Germany that can characteristic Desktop Metallic’s Studio System and Store System options for demonstrations, training, coaching, benchmarks and small collection manufacturing. The US. Heart of Excellence showroom will probably be situated in Pennsylvania, the identical state the place the SolidCAM US headquarters are situated. 

“The Desktop Metallic workforce is delighted to announce an growth of our relationship with SolidCAM, a model that’s lengthy trusted by machinists worldwide,” stated Ric Fulop, Founder and CEO of Desktop Metallic. 

Fulop added: “This expanded partnership implies that extra CNC professionals will learn the way simple it’s to 3D print and sinter advanced designs on our Studio System and Store System steel AM choices, liberating up capability on CNC gear, in addition to machinists time. Additive manufacturing know-how is actually complimentary to machining, and we’re desirous to ship that message to the market in partnership with SolidCAM.”

“Our Schramberg Know-how Heart has already added a Desktop Metallic Studio System to its present CNC machines,” stated Founder and CEO of SolidCAM Dr. Emil Somekh. “In the course of the COVID-19 epidemic, 3D printing performed a crucial function in repairing vulnerabilities in provide chains, particularly within the medical sector, and we expect it could actually assist enhance the throughput of provide chains that stay challenged at present.”

CNC machining is a course of reverse to 3D printing, it’s a subtractive manufacturing methodology the place machines are pre-programmed with exact directions, akin to velocity and place of machine instrument features, and course of 2D or 3D CAD designs. The system begins with a block of fabric and cuts away to create the completed half.

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