Additive Manufacturing: Technical Articles and Resources
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How to stop losing CAD accuracy in your 3D printing software pipeline
Spatial Team | 21-04-2026
How 3D printing software can handle CAD-to-mesh conversion without losing accuracy Here's something worth thinking about if you build 3D printing software: the STL file format has been the industry's ...
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Why Does Anyone Need Polyhedral Formats?
Following the design and analysis phase, computer aided design (CAD) files are usually converted into polyhedra file ...
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What are SLDPRT & SLDASM files and How are They Used in Additive Manufacturing?
Since launching in 1995, SolidWorks has emerged as a widely adopted computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided ...
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Why Your Apps Should Move to Support SLDPRT
Since its introduction in the 1980s, IGES (short for “Initial Graphics Exchange Specification) was the main computer ...
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How to Fully Leverage CAD in the Additive Manufacturing Process
The main phases involved in additive manufacturing are that of design and the manufacturing process. Practically, the ...
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Innovative Uses of Additive Manufacturing
The use of additive manufacturing software components is growing in high-tech industries. According to the market ...
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Additive Manufacturing Technology and How SDKs Can Help
In our interview with Spatial’s Director of Product Management, Ray Bagley, we discuss how 3D printing and additive ...
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Subtractive vs. Additive Manufacturing
With additive manufacturing - such as 3D printing - growing in adoption, especially in high-tech industries such as ...
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Design and Manufacture Move Closer Together
There is a new wave of innovative processes and solutions that improve product production throughput, and enable ...
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The Complexities of Additive Manufacturing in the Real World
Every new technology goes through a honeymoon phase, where new technology X can now do Y and obsoletes all previous ...
