Koos Eissenis an associate professor at the DelftUniversity of Technology and teaches freehanddrawingclasses at the FacultyofIndustrialDesignEngineering.
While primarily a novelty among the tech-obsessed, 3-D printing been used successfully for a variety of tasks, from making jewelry or medical supplies to larger projects in industrialdesign and engineering.
Squeezed in the TV and smart phone market by Samsung, LG, Apple and others, Panasonic, Sharp, Toyota and others are trying to adapt their expertise in precision engineering and industrialdesign to everyday objects.
Blu licenses an industrial-grade engineering software system called CATIA used by Boeing to design airliners, Virgin Galactic to build its suborbital space ship and automakers to create cars.