Building custom parts often means learning new skills or getting out of your comfort zone, especially if you want to create something that is really cool. While most hot rodders can fabricate brackets ...

Over the years, as the conference got larger, so did the parts. One area of the thermoforming industry that has expanded is large-part forming using heavy-gauge sheet. Applications for this process ...

Asano Laboratories is a manufacturer of thermoforming machines for thermoplastic sheets. Machines such as vacuum forming, pressure and vacuum forming, hot plate (contact) heating-type pressure forming ...

Peter Zelnick can imagine Zed Industries Inc.'s new thermoforming machine — which forms parts in a vacuum — turning out panels for buildings on Mars. How about something more down-to-Earth? * Medical ...

Vacuum forming is a handy thing to be able to do, and [3DSage] demonstrates how to do a bare-bones system that can form anything smaller than a dinner plate with little more than a 3D printed fitting ...

From top: A thermoforming/rapid prototyping machine from Geiss is equipped with a CNC router, a Sinumerik 840D control, and cutter length measuring inside the machine. The speedboat above was formed ...

Cleveland — The Society of Plastics Engineers Thermoforming Division named the winners of its biennial parts competition at a recent conference in Cleveland. "This year's parts competition was ...

Vacuum forming is perhaps one of the less popular tools in the modern maker arsenal, something which surprises us a bit because it offers many possibilities. We’ve created our own vacuum forms on 3D ...

When we think of 3D printing we usually think of a little robot that squirts out endless lines of plastic onto a surface. But vacuum forming—smoothing a sheet of thin plastic over an object to make a ...