Solid Dynamics Founder Taking 3-D Printers to School
Since the earliest patents for additive manufacturing devices have started to expire, the 3-D printing industry is entering a Wild West sort of stage, where innovators of new technologies will be championed and rewarded for bringing additive manufacturing to the next level.
Joe Sinclair and Innovation Park-based Solid Dynamics hope to be one of those companies at the forefront of this expansion.
The Penn State graduate has sat by different 3-D printers in his Innovation Park lab space for the last two years, watching as different liquid polymers are spun, squirted, molded, and assembled into whatever device his clients request. Taking entire design elements from his clients and tweaking or customizing them using his own engineering skills, Sinclair and his team first use computer-aided drafting software to mock up a blueprint. That blueprint is then introduced into one of 14 3-D printing machines Solid Dynamics uses.
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