Your masterclass in product design and development

Protolabs’ Insight video series

Our Insight video series will help you master digital manufacturing.

Every Friday we’ll post a new video – each one giving you a deeper Insight into how to design better parts. We’ll cover specific topics such as choosing the right 3D printing material, optimising your design for CNC machining, surface finishes for moulded parts, and much more besides.

So join us and don’t miss out.

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Insight: Choosing A Manufacturing Source

This can be one of the most important decisions you make on a project, and can easily make the difference between glowing success and not-so-glowing failure. You’ll need to be certain the option you pick fits your needs exactly, whether you want someone to handle your project as a one-off or plan to develop a long-term production relationship with them.

Insight: Bridging The Gap Between Prototyping And Production

Speed to market is key in most businesses. When prototyping a new product, you want to ensure you make it to market before your competitor. This video looks at the concept of bridge tooling and how it can support you in your transition from prototyping to production.

Most Recent Insight Videos

Insight: DMLS Material Selection

This video will look at and compare materials used for metal laser sintering, focusing on stainless steel, aluminium and Inconel 718. Also defining common properties found on datasheets such as; tensile strength, tensile modulus, elongation, heat deflection and hardness.

Insight: Design Essentials for Injection Moulding

The world of part design can be complex, over the course of our insight video series our aim has been to highlight particular techniques, considerations and benefits. However, it’s important not to lose sight of the fundamentals. This video will go back to basics and look at the essentials and core elements of designing parts for injection moulding, this includes; draft, radii, wall thickness and more.

Insight: Undercut Fundamentals

This video will look at a common problem when designing parts for injection moulding, undercuts. The most common piece of advice you will get, is avoid them if you can, but sometimes you can’t. With this in mind, we will give a handful of tips that can help alleviate design issues caused by them.

Insight: Overmould Design

This video will discuss overmould design and how to avoid some of the more common mistakes. Going into detail about bonding, materials and design rules.

Insight: 3D Printing Sustainability

Sustainability itself is a weighty topic, so this video will focus on how sustainability relates to the 3D printing process, how it stacks up against other manufacturing methods.

Insight: Emerging Injection Moulding Trends

This video will look at some of the key trends in the world of injection moulding and their affect over the next few years, such as; environmentally friendly additives and plastics, sustainability, light weighting and composite materials. We will also look at multi cavity and family moulds, and automation.