{"id":69031,"date":"2024-06-10T15:19:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T22:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/?p=69031"},"modified":"2024-08-19T19:22:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T02:22:21","slug":"photocentric-3d-printing-mass-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/photocentric-3d-printing-mass-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Photocentric Brings 3D Printing to Mass Manufacturing With Autodesk Fusion\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/photocentricgroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Photocentric<\/a>, 3D printing isn\u2019t just for prototyping or niche applications. In line with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/digital-transformation-manufacturing-industry\/\">Industry 4.0<\/a>, the UK-based company\u2019s goal is to bring it to mass manufacturing. To achieve this, they develop their own <a href=\"https:\/\/photocentricgroup.com\/3d-printing-materials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">resin materials<\/a> and design and manufacture a line of 3D printers that can deliver a vast array of parts and products for industrial applications.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Photocentric Brings 3D Printing to Mass Manufacturing With Autodesk Fusion\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3dmlSJXtCSk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen style=\"aspect-ratio:500 \/ 281;width:100%;height:auto;\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Photocentric\u2019s flagship products include the <a href=\"https:\/\/photocentricgroup.com\/lc-titan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LC Titan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/photocentricgroup.com\/3d-printers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LC Nano<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/photocentricgroup.com\/jeni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JENI<\/a>. LC Titan is the largest LCD 3D printer in the world. It has a 32-inch, 8K screen inside and a 1.2-meter print height. With LC Titan, customers from a variety of industries\u2014from automotive to aerospace and even entertainment\u2014can print large and accurate products with high definition. JENI is the company\u2019s vision for the future of 3D printing. It\u2019s an automated system that combines multiple Nano machines into one unit capable of automating between printers, washing units, and curing units.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>With Autodesk Fusion, Photocentric can collaborate easily and quickly to speed up their workflow. Generative design is used to evaluate potential design options, and automated drawing helps them generate many complex drawings that are often needed in a very short space of time.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Photocentric-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Photocentric 3D printer assembly\" class=\"wp-image-69040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Photocentric-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Photocentric-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Photocentric-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Photocentric-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Photocentric-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe develop all of our products in Fusion,\u201d says Ed Barlow, Head of Engineering, Photocentric. \u201cIt&#8217;s an incredibly powerful tool that allows us to do all aspects of the design all in one package. Fusion is the backbone of our design process.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe moved from another platform to Fusion. The reason is because we wanted to have everything in one place.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<cite>\u2014Hanifeh Zarezadeh, 3D Product Manager, Photocentric<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"designing-the-revolutionary-lc-nano-3d-printernbsp\">Designing the revolutionary LC Nano 3D printer <\/h2>\n\n\n<p>LC Nano is the fastest LCD 3D printer in the world with Photocentric\u2019s patented <a href=\"https:\/\/photocentricgroup.com\/blow-peel-and-vat-lift-technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blow-Peel technology<\/a> that enables very fast layers. One of the unique design features of LC Nano is a 3D-printed housing. \u201cThe 3D-printed housing is only possible because we used Fusion&#8217;s Product Design Extension to build in lattices into it, which help it print really, really straight and rigid,\u201d says Josh Moody, Senior R&amp;D Design Engineer, Photocentric.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Photocentric-3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Photocentric Fusion electronics workflow\" class=\"wp-image-69050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Photocentric-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Photocentric-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Photocentric-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Photocentric-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Photocentric-3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For LC Nano, the Photocentric team also faced complex design challenges with the electronics, optics, and hardware all in one design. The LED array is at a 90-degree angle to the screen and a mirror is used to reflect the light up. It was important to determine the correct placement of the LED and ensure the light hit the screen in the right spot. In the mechanical workspace in Fusion, they created sketches and translated it into the electrical workspace so LEDs could be positioned accurately on the PCB.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAdvanced tools like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/signal-integrity-extension?term=1-YEAR&amp;tab=subscription\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Signal Integrity Extension<\/a> give us the ability to design right the first time rather than iterating over and over again with the mistakes that we make,\u201d Barlow says. \u201cIn a machine like this where the LEDs are crucial to the machine&#8217;s operation, keeping everything in the same design tool has saved us hundreds of hours of design work. It gives us a huge boost to productivity.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDigital manufacturing is an industry that is moving so fast, and we can move so fast with Fusion as well,\u201d Zarezadeh adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a closer look at how Photocentric leverages Autodesk Fusion PCB design tools to pioneer the future of 3D printing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4033,"featured_media":69035,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[392,73,254,34,124,207,206,433],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-69031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies","tag-3d-modeling","tag-3d-printing","tag-additive-manufacturing","tag-customer-stories","tag-design","tag-electronics","tag-pcb","tag-signal-integrity-extension","dhig-theme--light"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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