Ian Anderson
Lifetime Supporter
Hi
We are looking to get into 3d printing and the related software.
Basically the company that employs me as the accountant is a design house and we design fashion accessories, hats, gloves, scarves etc and our main line sunglasses. And this is where the assistance is required as we currently design in 2d and have our China facotries convert to 3d and send samples that are not right, and the time to market is too long, so we are looking to be able to design 3d in house and print the prototypes. Potentially further down the line we may put production 3d printers in for small batch rus and do the whole lot in the UK!
Anyway at this point we have been suggested the following pieces of kit.
DAVID Structured Light Scanner SLS-2
Geomagic Wrap Software
Geomagic Sculpt and Design Software
Touch Haptic 3D Stylus
CubePro Trio 3D Printer
Ok the printer is lower quality than we may need but will get us off the ground and moving forward, but is the suggested software the right stuff? Should we be going Solidworks or something else instead?
Any input would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Ian
We are looking to get into 3d printing and the related software.
Basically the company that employs me as the accountant is a design house and we design fashion accessories, hats, gloves, scarves etc and our main line sunglasses. And this is where the assistance is required as we currently design in 2d and have our China facotries convert to 3d and send samples that are not right, and the time to market is too long, so we are looking to be able to design 3d in house and print the prototypes. Potentially further down the line we may put production 3d printers in for small batch rus and do the whole lot in the UK!
Anyway at this point we have been suggested the following pieces of kit.
DAVID Structured Light Scanner SLS-2
Geomagic Wrap Software
Geomagic Sculpt and Design Software
Touch Haptic 3D Stylus
CubePro Trio 3D Printer
Ok the printer is lower quality than we may need but will get us off the ground and moving forward, but is the suggested software the right stuff? Should we be going Solidworks or something else instead?
Any input would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Ian