PrintCity’s diverse fleet of 3D printers is always a starting point for discussing digital tools with clients. PrintCity Consults With Clients of All Sizes In this article, we’ll take a special look at the UK’s largest water company, United Utilities as a case study. We recently spoke with PrintCity product development specialist Mark Chester to discuss how the company uses accessible tools like Fusion 360 and Formlabs Form 3 printer to help his clients embrace and leverage digital fabrication. The staff at PrintCity consults with companies of all sizes on which digital technologies they should adopt in their own organization and helps guide products through R+D and manufacturing stages. PrintCity currently has 65 printers of various types, representing FDM, SLA, and metal printing technology. PrintCity is also a campus fabrication space for students in the university’s MSc in Industrial Digitalization program. Based within Manchester Metropolitan University, the facility serves as an education and consulting hub for companies in Manchester and internationally. PrintCity is a 3D additive manufacturing and digital manufacturing facility based in Manchester, UK, a city with a rich industrial history.

In this post, we take a deep dive into how they developed a scan to CAD workflow for United Utilities. PrintCity uses Fusion 360 and Formlabs’ Form 3 3D printer to provide custom additive manufacturing workflow and material solutions to customers.

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