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Rapid Thermoforming With 3D Printed Molds: A Practical Guide

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What you will learn:

Register for this webinar to learn how to accelerate product development, reduce costs and lead times, and create custom or low volume products with ease by combining 3D printed rapid tooling and thermoforming.

Whether you are looking to design functional prototypes with end-use materials, fabricate parts during pilot production, or manufacture custom or limited-series of end-use parts, 3D printing rapid tooling is a cost-effective and quick way to produce parts in low-volumes. 3D printed thermoforming molds can be used to create various parts such as packaging, prototypes and low volumes of consumer goods, clear orthodontic retainers, and more.

In this webinar, Martin Smith from Formech and Juliette Combe from Formlabs share guidelines for using 3D printed thermoforming molds. They discuss design best practices and case studies with different molding conditions.

What you’ll learn:
  • General workflow and method for using thermoforming 3D printed molds
  • Recommendations on design, printing, and molding conditions to optimize the process
  • Real-life examples and user stories



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Webinar Speakers

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Juliette Combe

Application Engineer, Product Team at Formlabs

Juliette Combe is an application engineer at Formlabs, conducting research on 3D printing workflows for engineering and manufacturing. Her scope of work includes collaborations with customers, in-house testing, and knowledge transfer through the creation of technical content and training. Previously, she worked in the Open Innovation group at GE Power. She has a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich and carried out research on nano-3D printing at UC Berkeley.

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Martin Smith

Senior Technical Support Manager at Formech International Ltd

Martin Smith has a degree in Industrial Design from the Central School of Art & Design in London. He had many years’ experience running his own vacuum forming company including building his own machines before joining Formech in 2007. Martin provides technical support regarding all aspects of the vacuum forming process to existing and new customers. This includes tooling, materials, the vacuum forming process and trimming. Formech’s approach is to provide the best solution so that the customer benefits the most from the vacuum forming process.