What kind of impact can 3D printers have in the real day-to-day world of an engineering department?
Watch this short interview with a 3DP Design Engineer and learn about the impact of a large format 3D printer on their engineering process and the increased speed to market for new product development.
Engineers, driven by the need to create real world prototypes and parts that ordinary desktop 3D printers could not handle, created the X1000 large format 3D printer.
Hear the answer in this short video interview straight from a Development Engineer with 3DP Unlimited. Be sure to watch for ongoing Q&A with 3DP to learn more about the X1000 and get your large format 3D printing questions answered.
Full Transcript Below …
Narrator: We’re here at ATX-West and we have the 3DP Unlimited X-1000 large format 3D printer here in our booth, and I have with me Joe Binka. He was the development geek really, behind the ideas. A lot of this came from him and his design group there at 3DP.
One of the questions that I have for you Joe is … well, this is a big printer. We’re talking about a meter by meter by half meter build area. What drove you guys to go large format?
Joe: Well, everything that we have … and we have a lot of 3D printers back at our company … and they’re all very small foot prints. Most of the products and parts that we wanted to print just simply wouldn’t fit on the printer. We decided to come up with a large format printer that could not only do a one meter by one meter print, but would also be able to run production parts. So if we had a customer that came to us with a small production run or prototype run, we’d be able to do it all on one print bed.
Engineers are always working to push design envelopes and 3D printers are no exception to the rule as noted in this editorial from Leslie Langnau, Managing Editor, of www.MakePartsFast.com.
The 1m x 1m x 0.5m build area of the 3DP Unlimited large format X1000 3D printer expands the normal boundaries of desktop 3D printers to a range that let’s designers build real world parts and large scale models and still keep costs below budget. The X1000 can reach these lengths and maintain accuracy because it is enabled by the use of industrial strength actuators out of the SIMO Series from PBC Linear.
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ElectricTV stopped by the ATX-West Expo in Anaheim, CA and interviewed 3DP Unlimited Development Engineer, Joe Binka. Watch the interview, see big prints, and learn more about the X1000 large format 3D printer from 3DP Unlimited.
The debut showing of the X1000 large format 3D printer from 3DP Unlimited was a huge success. The aisle of the ATX-West Expo in Anaheim, CA was packed with people wanting to see what the buzz was about and learn what the innovation could bring to their design team. PBC Linear featured the X1000 in their booth where Design World Magazine stopped by for a video interview, suggestions for more features from users kept coming, and ideas for large prints kept expanding. Great contacts were made with designers and engineers from a wide variety of fields … architects, mechanical engineers, yacht designers, sculptors, civil engineers, and many more. Uses and applications for large format 3D printing from 3DP are … well … Unlimited. Special thanks to all those who stopped by the booth.
If you have experience with 3D printing and would like to be a part of the product development and provide feedback on design enhancements, be sure to enter the “30 Days Free with a 3DP Contest”.
This is your opportunity to enter for a chance to have 30 Days FREE with a large format X1000 3D printer from 3DP Unlimited. All you need to do is visit www.3DPUnlimited.com, click on the “30 Days FREE Contest”, and provide your name and email, along with answering some questions about your challenges and experience with 3D printing. 
What’s the catch? There’s always a catch … right?
Believe it or not, there is no catch. If you are the winner, all 3DP asks is that you regularly use the X1000 during the 30 days, provide feedback on your experience, and be willing to let 3DP reference your name with images or videos of your prints in blog posts or other promotional materials.
3DP Unlimited has a product development road-map that is driven by real world feedback from engineers working to solve real world problems. The winner of the 30 Days FREE Contest will be a part of leading edge large format additive manufacturing development by providing vital input into future product additions and enhancements.
That’s it … a clean, simple, straightforward chance to use a large format 3D printer. And at the end of the 30 days, you will have the option to purchase or return the X1000 to 3DP Unlimited.
Great shot of the print of the 18″ long PLA spool rack holder for the X1000.
3DP Unlimited™ to Unveil Large Format 3D Printer at ATX-West 2014
See the Big Footprint of the X1000™ 3D Printer in the PBC Linear Booth 
Be among the first to see the full scale large-format X1000 3D printer from 3DP Unlimited. Don’t miss PBC Linear, booth #4576 in the Assembly Technology section, where this highly accurate industrial strength 3D printer will be unveiled during the ATX-West Expo in Anaheim, CA on February 11-13, 2014.
The X1000 3D printer utilizes the durable SIMO® Series linear actuators from PBC Linear for robust and accurate mechatronics while creating the huge workable print area of 1m x 1m x 0.5m … (39″ x 39″ x 19″). Designed by engineers and built for engineers, 3DP Unlimited’s X1000 3D printer is easy to use having been built on open source control platforms. Starting at $15,999, the large-format X1000 3D printer is an economical way to extend the capabilities of any engineering firm or department.