The 1, 030 cubic inch-build platform is large enough print a basketball, though, one that wouldn't bounce very high.
The first step in the process is leveling the build platform -- contents in the box were almost certainly tussled during transit, and you've got to recalibrate things.
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The open-cage printer will work using "fused filament fabrication" with 1.75mm filament, and will also feature 100 micron layer resolution (0.1 millimeter), rigid aluminum construction, an open-source software tool chain and optional heated build platform.
The heads operate along the X and Y axes, while the build platform (generally heated in the case of ABS and unheated for PLA) moves downward, allowing the glue gun-like extruders to build up the thin layers of plastic.
This year, 3D Systems gave the company a run for its money, in the form of the portable Cube (which employees were carrying strapped to their chests while walking the show floor) and the CubeX, with its enormous basketball-sized build platform.
The majority of the Replicator's internal space is wide open, save for a build platform that can be adjusted up and down by turning a threaded screw and the gantry atop the space that houses the Stepstruder MK8, whose front is monopolized by a large pair of fans.
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We are in a big transitional space, especially for agencies with social and mobile who have to decide how to build across platform strategies, how to build a campaign that is meaningful and respectful.
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And if you build a platform people love inside, you can build a big company around that quickly.
Most big brands will forgo the six months it takes to build a platform, staff infrastructure, standardize editorial guidelines, and build a sales force in major U.S. markets.
SmartThings aims to build a platform to make it easy to connect all these disparate objects and processes.
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"The number one goal is to build the most powerful platform to build these new businesses, " Schmidt says.
"We've got to build the platform for the next World Cup around young players such as Courtney, " added Newman.
Consider the intern who chooses to work for free to gain experience, or the writer who chooses to blog for free to build a platform.
Government can fund and build the platform, make it at NO COST to anyone registering and openly encourage members of the ecosystem from all over the UK to take part.
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There it hopes to find at least half a billion barrels of oil, enough to build a platform like ExxonMobil's nearby Hibernia, which can withstand a jostle from a million-ton iceberg.
Members of Cambridge University Officers' Training Corps (CUOTC) have agreed to build a platform representing the roof of the 70ft (21m)-high Senate House, and a vehicle will be hoisted to the top.
The party - which performed disappointingly in last year's English council elections - needed to make a "breakthrough" at a local level, Mr Farage acknowledged, if it was to build a platform for national election victories.
Six years ago I co-founded Mashery to build a platform that allows large and small businesses to create APIs to extend the distribution of whatever product or service they sell to new customers, and to allow any of their customers to interact with them wherever they want to.
There is tremendous value to unlock if Wal-Mart can build a platform to connect its dispersed users from various markets, and while we believe that recent efforts are moving in the right direction, it looks like it will be a while before online sales really move the needle for the retail giant.
We wanted to build the best platform for financial analytics and risk management possible.
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We decided our best hat to build social apps was to build out the platform to support them.
They have to build its mobile platform and work on monetization this year.
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In 2010 Intel launched the AppUp program which helps developers build cross-platform applications.
Such worries explain the urgency of its efforts to build a common platform.
It might be the case that an iPhone app makes more sense for your company (assuming you can only afford to build for one platform).
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Amazon could build on this platform, and -who knows- maybe they will catch up to Apple as they gain more supply chain scale and expertise.
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In March, Zynga announced plans to build a gaming platform at Zynga.com for gamers to connect outside of Facebook in a game-specific website.
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With Ouya, any developer can build on the platform, she says.
The pair have seen the music industry change so much over the last several years that they decided to build an online platform to champion the love of playing music.
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