State of the art in 3D printing | Siavash Mahdavi | TEDxSalzburg

During his PhD in Evolutionary Robotics, Siavash Mahdavi developed software that was able to design complex lattice structures which could be manufactured through additive manufacturing (more commonly known as 3D Printing). He established Within Technologies, a software house that specialises in the development of software for the medical and aerospace industries in 2008. This technology has been used in the aerospace sector to design lightweight yet strong components while in the medical sector, other software has resulted in the design and manufacture of complex porous structures that are ideally suited to bone in-growth into orthopedic implants. In 2008 he also launched Digital Forming, a company that is making use of 3D printing to enable the mass customisation of consumer products for high-street brands. Both companies were recently featured in the Economist in a cover story entitled "The manufacturing technology that will change the world".
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[@LanceWinslow]

Totally amazing, maybe this is why New Balance is looking into 3-D technologies also.

[@wiskunst]

awesome tech! very nice!

[@rRobertSmith]

we need that heat exchanger on ships in the tropics

[@SolidFaceCAD]

We were impressed by the video, looking forward to the next. We are a small 3D modeling software startup completely bootstrapped and tooks us 5 years to develop our real-time collaborative CAD.? Would be great if our channels could collaborate.

[@rRobertSmith]

multiplex active "printing" heads, 4 at once?

[@rRobertSmith]

does this mean 5 axis machining is obsolete?

[@Ernests11245]

0 likes, 0 dislikes, 0 views, 0 comments...hmmm... btw recently there was another TED talk on 3D printing right?? maybe the technology is going to be available to mass media soon...

[@rRobertSmith]

graphite is hard to print,,, titanium not so bad...