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How digital twins speed up the manufacturing process

Control Engineering

Computer-aided design (CAD) has completely transformed the manufacturing process. In fact, CAD and computer numerical control ( CNC) are two technologies responsible for a revolution in most of the manufactured goods we have seen in recent years. 3D scanning is doing the opposite.

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Scape Technologies, Danish Technological Institute, and AMT join in a new EUROSTARS Project: Just in Time 3D Printing Production

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The Process of Additive Manufacturing for Creating 3D Objects Additive manufacturing is the process of creating a 3D object by building it one layer at a time and it is using computer-aided-design (CAD) software or 3D object scanners to direct hardware to deposit material, layer upon layer, in precise geometric shapes.