Some Skillshare courses provide valuable tools and information to help career development or expand technical skills, like their classes on Startup Design: UI and UX Design Team Structure and Process, Design for 3D Printing, and Sketchnotes, Infographics and Graphic Facilitation, which caught my eye.
Robin Kyte believes mastering the use of 3D printing and computer aided design, is just the latest addition to the skills jewellers should learn, and it won't, in his view, replace traditional craftsmanship.
Its the difference between soldering transistor after transistor into a tangle of wires and printing the whole design, in hundreds of copies at a time, on integrated circuit chips.
For companies creating new products, 3D printing can make it easier to design and test new concepts, and decrease the time to market.
"New digital design tech, 3D printing, robotics and the emerging field of 3D scanning, plus exponential leaps in manufacturing -- together, they are putting really powerful tools into the hands of individuals, " he says.
As an inventor, entrepreneur and currently the director of Product Innovation for SolidWorks, Chin has been a pioneer of 3 Dimensional printing, digital modeling software and, more recently, sustainable design practices.
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It's easier and faster than using software to design a digital printing model from scratch.
Part of the 123D family of products, 123D Catch users can take advantage of a connected group of Autodesk software, fabrication services for 3D printing and laser cutting, and a community of like-minded individuals focused on 3D design and personal fabrication.
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Members of the OAAA donated printing, materials and billboard space, while a private anonymous donor paid for the campaign's design, Golimowski said.
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Customers choose their card design, personalize it with a message or their own images and then outsource the printing, addressing, stamping and mailing to the Punch Street team.
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One of the highlights of the week will be a three day competition between design schools from France and the USA to create prototype lighting designs, using 3D printing as an in situ maker technology.
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While the technology is still in the very early stages, 3D printing is nearing becoming a real world application. 3D printing is a tool that can be used to validate a design, ensure pieces fit together properly and even make a product mock-up for marketing.
But Hewlett-Packard, which is also making a big effort in plastic electronics using inkjet techniques, argues that the advantage of printing over stamping is that it makes it possible to produce customised circuitry more quickly and easily, with changes in design being incorporated instantly.
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