an update on Materialise`s software platform for 3D Printing

Enabling professional 3D Printing
applications; an update on Materialise’s
software platform for 3D Printing
Luke Ambrose, 20th May 2014
Agenda
• Materialise’s background
• Materialise’s core competences
• Creating a better and healthier world
• Materialise’s position; platform for 3D printing
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Innovators you can count
on since 1990
One machine and a belief in the incredible potential
of Additive Manufacturing
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1000+ employees, in offices
worldwide, working together
towards a better and healthier world
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A history of meaningful innovations
• Release of colour
stereolithography
• Launch NextDay service
and Mimics software.
• Start of offices in USA,
Germany and UK
1990 - 1995
• Experiments with new
stereolithography resins
• First medical model
• First releases of Magics
software
1995 - 2000
2000 - 2005
• First Mammoth machine
• Set-up training centers
and offices globally
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• First releases of SimPlant
and 3-matic software
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• Launch of .MGX collection
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A history of meaningful innovations
• Belgium’s first full face
transplant - UH Ghent
• Areion, the world’s first 3D
Printed race car – Group T
2005 - 2010
• Orthopaedic collaboration
agreements
• Launch of Streamics for AM
Automation & Control
• Launch of e-Stage software
and Tetrashell
• 3D Printing & haute couture
2011 - 2012
2013
• First fully-functional
flexible 3D printing material
• Interactive 3D printed
“Smoke Dress” – Anouk
Wipprecht
• RapidFit expands
internationally
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Materialise’s Core Competences
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Three Core Competences
3D Printing
Engineering
Software
Development
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3D Printing
100+ systems in-house
● SL ● LS ● FDM ● Z-Corp ● PolyJet ● VC
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Software Development
● Product development
● Custom development
● Technology research
Photo of developers
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Engineering
From medical images, CAD data or customer input…
Areion by Formula Group T
…to engineering and design
...to physical models
The Materialise Flywheel
400 000 prototypes,
production parts and
consumer products
3D printed in 2013
146 000 customized
medical devices
produced in 2013
3D
Engineering
Printing
Software
Development
An installed base of
8 000 software licenses
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3D
Engineering
Printing
Software
Development
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Creating a Better
and Healthier World
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Creating a world...
...where designers can engineer better products
Image courtesy of Citroën – Photo © Laurent Nivalle
Image courtesy of Phonak
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Creating a world...
...where companies can better serve and support their
customers
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Creating a world...
...where doctors can be better doctors
Photo © Belga
Head defect correction. Courtesy of Dawid Larysz M.D., Ph.D., Consultant Neurosurgeon, Dept. Neurosurgery.Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. In
collaboration with Prof. Marek Gzik, Dr Wojciech Wolanski and engineers from Dept. of Biomechatronics, Silesian Universityof Technilogy, Gliwice Poland.
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Creating a world...
...where people can better share the best of themselves
Mission Statement
Materialise’s mission is to innovate product development resulting
in a better and healthier world through its software and hardware
infrastructure and in-depth knowledge of Additive Manufacturing
Journal reference: DOI: 10.1056/1 NEJMc1206319
Additional authors: Of the University of Michigan: David A. Zopf, M.D., Richard G. Ohye, M.D. Of Akron Children’s Hospital: Marc
E. Nelson, M.D.
Materialise’s Position
Neutral Software Platform for 3D Printing
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The Materialise Flywheel
3D
Engineering
Printing
Software
Development
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Connect Industries/Applications
to
3D Printing
...
...
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Software
Platform for
3D Printing
...
...
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STL
FBX
ACIS
ProESTL
VRML
CT/MRI
Topology data
3DM
3DS
OBJ
Google Sketchup 8.0
.AMF
PLY
VDA
ZPR
DXF
Catia
...
Software
Platform for
3D Printing
EBM
FDM
Binderjet
Laser Sintering
DLP
Stereolithography
Metal Sintering
Polyjet
...
Software
Platform for
3D Printing
3D Printing Software Platform
2D to 3D Data
Engineering &
(re)-design
Mimics
3-matic
AM/RP
preparation
Magics
e-stage
Production
Mach control SW
Autofab R&D
Quality
control
MiniMagicsPro
,3-matic
Streamics
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Thank you!
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