Digital Events

This presentation will explore the growing secondary finishing options available for additive manufacturing that enable new opportunities for using additive in production.

Providing you with design advice that will optimize your 3D-printed part design, we’ll cover common design mistakes, such as thin walls and small gaps, and how to correct them.

Silicone contains properties that make it a perfect fit for a variety of medical applications. Protolabs industry experts will spotlight two major silicone manufacturing processes (true silicone 3D printing and liquid silicone rubber injection molding), diving into the use cases and economics to shed light on whether these might be a fit for your next project or device.

Protolabs offers a unique digital quoting experience for injection molding that analyzes your part, highlighting design advisories aimed to optimize your part geometry.

Join us as we discuss the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) applications of generative design and digital manufacturing for both additive manufacturing and CNC machining, including design, analysis, fabrication, and testing of prototype hardware for NASA missions.

Dive into the ins and outs of true silicone 3D printing. See how you can additively manufacture prototypes or production parts with complex, organic geometries in silicone.

Join us as we talk pro tips on designing machined parts. We’ll look at ways to optimize your parts for Protolabs’ machining tool sets to help you create cost-effective, well-designed components. If you’ve ever been curious about how our software prioritizes features, wondered why one of your parts has leftover material, or are just not sure why lead times may change depending on the part, then join us for a peek behind the curtain.

Product developers are moving as quickly as possible to launch new technologies, and supply chains are quickly scaling to meet production demand that is projected to sharply grow. Many challenges still exist to meet lofty production targets and much of the needed infrastructure does not yet exist. What can product developers do to meet the challenge? Join us for Power Surge.

Partnering with GE Additive to understand when to take advantage of metal 3D printing. From high-resolution parts to meshes to patient-specific components, 3D printing is transforming how medical device designers approach metal part design. Hear more about this from experts who regularly work with additive engineers from the medical industry.

In this webinar, we’ll cover the benefits and challenges of additive manufacturing (AM) of aluminum and highlight the industries adopting this material as a go-to manufacturing option for production parts.

The digital thread makes up the fabric that is technology-enabled manufacturing. We refer to this digital thread as the digital twin of our end-to-end manufacturing process. Join as we dive deeper into the speed, productivity, and cost benefits of digitally manufacturing custom parts - in an ever-increasing virtual world.

FASTCAST: Automated CNC machining processes are unique in the manufacturing industry. For example, while most traditional services rely on humans throughout the process, our automated CNC ships approximately 70,000 unique geometries each month without a single human CNC machinist. That adds speed, consistency, and reliability.

FASTCAST: Join us for a look at how machining processes have evolved over the years and, more specifically, how Protolabs is driving innovation by leveraging advanced, homegrown software in parallel with cutting-edge hardware.

FASTCAST: The key is to keep it simple. With machined parts, unnecessary complexity costs time and money. We'll discuss some ways that simplifying designs can bring you to the perfect balance of speed, reliability, and quality.

Join us as we discuss topics ranging from low-volume supply needs to what is currently driving the rate of innovation for EVs. As product developers are asked to do more than ever, this discussion will help give insights into how to meet these challenges today.

Virtual Event

Join us as we discuss everything metal, specifically for the aerospace and automotive industries. We will touch on a variety of topics ranging from material selection to finishing operations.

FastCast: Building Manufacturing Agility into Verification and Validation.

FastCast: How to Find a Resin Balance and Reduce Your Supply Chain Risk.

FastCast: How to build an agile development strategy around speed, quality, AND cost reduction.

Join us along with HP and OVR Technology for a free roundtable discussion titled Curious How to Leverage 3D Printing for End-Use Production? The discussion will offer insights on where we see adoption and growth of Multi Jet Fusion production across various industries.

This webinar will cover how metal 3D printing (direct metal laser sintering / melting) can add value to you, your organization, and your design applications in the production of end-use parts.

Learn the tips and tricks for developing your product faster, cheaper and smarter.

Learn how to stretch your manufacturing dollar and reduce your piece-part price by optimizing your design and incorporating moldability analysis.

Learn how to decrease time and overhead during development cycles with our extended machining capabilities.

Dig into sheet metal fabrication equipment and forming techniques to learn how to better design sheet metal parts and manage costs.

Learn how to design for metal 3D printing and the additional considerations required for post-print processing and quality requirements.

The experts at HP and Protolabs have teamed up to give you key insights into Multi Jet Fusion materials, processing capabilities, and part quality.

Learn how to breakthrough traditional supply chain methodologies to become more agile and flexible to meet the demands of today’s market.

We explore various 3D printing materials ranging from ABS-like plastics to commercial-grade nylons to fully dense metals. Included will be design guidelines for 3D printing processes at Protolabs.

This presentation will highlight strategies for transitioning from 3D printing to injection molding, including key considerations like geometries, materials, and timelines.

In our webinar co-hosted with GE Additive, industry experts take you on an in-depth journey through some common and not-so-common hurdles experienced when designing for metal 3D printing.

This webinar explains how the MJF process works, its benefits and limitations, and how to improve MJF part design and quality.

This webinar highlights the importance of balancing multiple manufacturing methods, such as sheet metal fabrication, CNC machining, and direct metal laser sintering.

This presentation shares how to design for Carbon DLS 3D printing, its material properties, and common applications and use-cases of the technology.

Learn how to design complex plastic parts with advanced processes like overmolding and insert molding.

Learn about what leads to cosmetic defects in plastic injection-molded parts, and provide tips that will help you create high-quality products.

In this webinar, we’ll share how to optimize your design for the subtractive manufacturing process and provide tips on how to accelerate production time and reduce part cost.

In this webinar, we’ll share how you can leverage additive manufacturing in your continuous improvement initiatives.

Learn about the design and development of DUCK!, a fighting robot featured on the latest season of “BattleBots.”

See how digital, automated manufacturing processes improve part quality and tracebility.

Learn which features create production risks and how to reduce those risks when drafting parts for sheet metal fabrication.

This presentation compares flawed versus optimized geometry, discusses part design considerations, and explores secondary operations options to keep in mind when designing for DMLS.

We’ll examine how to unlock revenue opportunities with low-volume production and mass customization.

Compare desktop and industrial-grade 3D printing capabilities and project considerations to determine the best process for your application.

In this presentation, we’ll examine how to design several common features found on sheet metal parts, including reliefs, offsets, holes, slots, and hems while keeping these guidelines in mind.

An inside look at how industrial-grade 3D printing is increasingly being used as a valuable complement to conventional manufacturing processes.

In our presentation, we will look at designing complex geometries for rapid injection molding, applying a non-traditional, rapid manufacturing approach to a traditional procedure to accomplish intricacy.

This webinar will walk you through how to effectively leverage Protolabs’ ordering system to accelerate your time to market.

Oboe Wu of SOLIDWORKS shares the benefits of MBD and how you can adopt this new approach to design.

A guide on how to select the right material for your injection molding design.

We examine how to design parts for Multi Jet Fusion, HP’s new production-grade 3D printing technology.

In this webinar, we’ll explore how 3D-printed molds compare to more traditional tooling options like steel and aluminum.

Learn about multiple rapid prototyping processes and when each is most beneficial to your project.

Learn about key design elements, material options and post-build processes in this 45-minute live webinar.

See how automotive companies can leverage rapid manufacturing to accelerate product development and remain competitive in a fast-changing market.

We discuss how to design for overmolding and insert molding processes, provide guidance on material compatibility, and share how to add strength to parts with metal inserts.

In this webinar, we examine material properties and provide guidelines to help you choose the right thermoplastic material for your application.