Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, said Arthur C. Clarke.
Harshil Goel may be channeling Clarke when he talked about Dyndrite on our Masters of Technology podcast. Harshil, a boyish genius, may find it flattering that his invention, an advanced technology that ought to have revolutionized 3D printing, is accepted as magic. Indeed, it is able to produce exact shapes (not faceted) at a fraction of the size of normal 3D printing files (like STL).
Why has this technology not been universally adopted, we have to wonder. We ask Anthony Graves, an industry veteran and now VP of Sales at Dyndrite, who we encountered at 3DXW25 when it occurred to us at the same time that it is the very appearance of magic that may make engineers distrust Dyndrite.
Engineers pride themselves on understanding the most complex technology. They have to. A technology that is presented or comes across as magic is something they can’t explain and henceforth cannot recommend.
We also consider the idea of engineers too busy to consider changing processes. We imagine a cartoon with Native Americans turning down a Gatling gun salesman because they were too busy making arrows. Failing to find that, we use the common Stone Age dudes too busy to consider round wheels because square wheels were commanding their attention.
But Anthony is convinced that Dyndrite could indeed be the game changer needed in 3D printing. Dyndrite alone is able to create NC-level instructions for 3D printing, whereas 3D printing to date has only been able to produce straight line constant speed movement for its printing heads. Dyndrite, in contrast, is able to vary speeds, feeds, ups and downs, the stuff common to CNC programmers but sorely lacking in 3D printing, thereby accomplishing the necessary process by which parts are made to spec.
Use it right and the parts made with Dyndrite have little of the distortions that ordinary 3D printing is subject to. The math is complicated, but long story short, Dyndrite has got this. Parts made with Dyndrite are the real deal: they measure as designed. Gone is the distortion common to FDM, where the laser sintering shrinks the metal particles, and the printed part is out of spec.