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Why We Love 3D Printing

• 3D Printing : Medical Applications
  As parents of a child with Kidney dysfunction (and a rare blood type to match), we (Lee and Chris Bilby, founders or Bilby 3D) are without doubt skewed in favor of this technology because of the tremendous ramifications to organ transplants. We are really excited that Kidneys biologically match to the patient from their own cells are being 3D Printed and that within only a few years we will no longer see organ waiting lists, and rejections, as patients will be implanted with an organ that is, for all intent and purpose, their own!
  
  We already have very successful use of 3D Printing technology to product hip and joint replacements in Europe, heart valves in the USA and prosthetics for children that would normally not have them due to budgetary constraints.
  
  Australia's own Health Physics (research company in Wollongong NSW) was instrumental in the adoption of 3D Printers to print pre-op evaluation models of tumors, and crushed bones. We are very proud to have been there from the early stages of their research and see their amazing adaptation of ultrasound, MRI and CAT scans into 3D models on the old Makerbot Replicator 1 what feels like an age ago.
  
  We have not even discussed the increased assess to hearing aids, dentures and dental products, customized prosthetics, bone reconstructions and other amazing advances in modern medicine made possible through 3D Printing ..... This is really exciting and we can not wait to see the future.
  
  
• Engineering and Design with a 3D Printer
  Gone are the days where prototyping and testing took months, due to slow and expensive prototype creation. We remember when the average time to see a physical model of your design took 3-6 months, only to discover your design did not actually fit perfectly with other components and needed changing...along with another 3-6 month wait!
  
  Our friends at Ford (Australia) use their 3D printer as an intrinsic part of the design and development process.
  “I actually see additive as producing situations where you’re going to have higher-skilled positions that companies are going to need to fill, both on the technician level, and the engineering and design level,” Greg Morris, GE Aviation
  
  
• Pathway to market : how 3D printing has made the impossible possible
  Prior to 3D printing, product manufacture and prototyping was slow and expensive. Now small business owners can produce small runs at low cost and release their product without high capital investment.
  
  Case examples
  Bilby 3D actually is a case in point. Our electronics boxes, spool stands, and even some repair parts are all 3D Printed. If we were to have to use traditional manufacturing and injection mould these parts, well the truth is they probably would have never made it to market. 3D printing not only allowed small runs, but also constant re-iteration and improvement to the designs.
  
  Slydev are a small Australian company specialising in customised, small run products for Nerf guns and associated products. They have also built up excellent Rapid Prototyping and Small Scale Production services for other like-minded designers. 3D Printing is at the heart of their business model, an intrinsic part of their success.
  
  Read Manufacturing Case Studies
  
  Read Prototyping Case Studies
  
  
• 3D Printing in Education : Changing art, design, history and science curricula
  What are the chances of the average Australian student ever going to the Louvre in Paris and standing at the foot of the amazing Winged Victory of Samothrace in awe of its 2.75m (9 feet) grey-white marble magnificence?
  Or holding a T.Rex skull?
  Or see a trilobite scuttle across the desk?
  
  Yet all these things are now possible and tangible with 3D Printing!
  
  See our STEM range