Webinars & Trade Shows

Join us for live webinars each month and watch on-demand webinars available at your convenience. You can also find us at trade shows around the country to discuss designing for manufacturability with onsite engineers.

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Best Practices to Fast-Track Design & Production Using Metal Additive

Learn from experts at GE Additive and Protolabs during our upcoming webinar tailored to those exploring additive for the first time. We’ll cover 3D printing solutions to efficiency, accessibility, and design obstacles that will save you time and money.

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Production 3D Printing with Carbon DLS

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

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A Deep Dive into Overmolding and Insert Molding

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

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How to Avoid Cosmetic Defects on Molded Parts

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

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How to Reduce Costs and Accelerate Production of Machined Parts

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.

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Accelerate Continuous Improvement with 3D Printing

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

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How to Conquer the BattleBots Arena with Digital Manufacturing

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

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Design Optimization for Multi Jet Fusion

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

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How Digitization Drives Quality Throughout Manufacturing

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

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How to Reduce Sheet Metal Design Risks and Production Costs

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

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A Deep Dive Into Metal 3D Printing

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

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How to Develop a Low-Volume Product Strategy Around Industry 4.0

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

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3D Printing: Industrial vs. Desktop

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

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How to Reduce Injection Molding Costs

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

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The Basics of Sheet Metal Part Design

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.

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3D Printing Beyond Prototyping

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

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5 Ways to Master Complexity in Molded Features

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.

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How to Place An Order in Your Account

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

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Webinar

What is Model-Based Definition and Why You Should Use It

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

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An Engineer's Guide to Thermoplastics

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

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Designing for Multi Jet Fusion

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

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Digital Inspection for Injection Molding

Learn how product designers and engineers can use on-demand manufacturing to accelerate speed to market and reduce total cost of ownership.

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3D-Printed Molds vs. Metal Tooling

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

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Leveraging Rapid Prototyping

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

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Designing for PolyJet 3D Printing

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

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Webinar

Getting to Market Faster with Rapid Manufacturing

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

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Design Essentials for Overmolding and Insert Molding

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.

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Reducing Production Costs with On-Demand Manufacturing

Learn how on-demand manufacturing can help companies reduce total cost of ownership, increase speed to market, and handle unforeseen changes in demand after product launch.

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Selecting the Right Material for 3D Printing

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.

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How to Design Efficient Parts for CNC Machining

Learn a number of ways to modify your CNC machining design to not only improve functionality, but reduce manufacturing costs.

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Designing for Metal 3D Printing

Direct metal laser sintering can produce fully dense metal parts with hollow features and complex, organic geometries. Learn why product designers are turning to DMLS for prototyping and end-use parts.

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How to Accelerate Medical Device Development

Medical device development can be reduced by weeks or even months with rapid manufacturing. We share how the digitalization of manufacturing reduces production costs, reduces lead times, and helps minimize design risks.

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Improving Manufacturability with ProtoQuote

We take you inside our interactive quoting system, ProtoQuote, to navigate our design feedback (DFM), real-time pricing, and proposed revision (PPR) features.

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Rapid Manufacturing for Plastic Parts

See how identifying quantity, lead time, and material requirements of your project early can help you determine the best manufacturing process for plastic parts.

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SPIE

The Protolabs team will be in San Francisco, CA from February 4-6 at SPIE. We’ll be at booth #138 and we’d love for you to stop by.

Trade Show

SPIE Light Tradeshow

February 4-6, 2020 San Francisco, CA The Moscone Center Booth: 138

Trade Show

3DExperience World

February 9-12, 2020 Nashville, TN Music City Center Booth: 423

Trade Show

MD&M West

February 11-13, 2020 Anaheim, CA Anaheim Convention Center Booth: 3301

Trade Show

Space Symposium

March 30 - April 2, 2020 Colorado Springs, CO The Broadmoor Booth: 1459

Trade Show

RAPID

April 21-23, 2020 Anaheim, CA Anaheim Convention Center Booth: 1400

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BIOMEDevice Boston

May 6-7, 2020 Boston, MA Boston Convention Center Booth: 514

Trade Show

ASME: AM Medical

May 27-28, 2020 Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis Convention Center Booth: 1507

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IMTS 2020

September 14-19, 2020 Chicago, IL McCormick Place Booth: 432423

Trade Show

MD&M Minneapolis

Oct. 28-29, 2020 Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis Convention Center Booth: 904