MakerBot is best known for its 3D printers, turning virtual products into real ones, but the company's latest hardware to go on sale, the MakerBot Digitizer, takes things in the opposite direction.

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In case you haven’t noticed, 3D printers are all the rage these days. People are using 3D printers to print Aston Martin replicas, there’s a number of household items you “manufacture,” and even ...

Measurements on mechanical devices and systems using a digitizer often require a variety of transducers or sensors. Such sensors convert mechanical parameters such as force, acceleration, pressure, ...

Obtaining numerical values for data points on a plot is sometimes useful for additional calculations, or extrapolations. When numerical values aren’t provided, which is typical for low-dropout ...

Portable FaroArms are coordinate-measuring machines (CMMs) used in our facility to improve the fabrication of parts and weldments. Using the arm captures coordinates that can be turned into accurate ...

The software, Digitizer Studio, offers powerful configuration, control, and display capabilities which greatly help simplify both performance evaluation and system-level integration. Digitizer Studio ...

I have 2 SJ30s and an SJ20 whose digitizers were replaced. I have been having problems since they were "repaired". The SJ30s have "hot spots" where tapping in one particular area of the Apps icon gets ...