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The Fab Foundation—and the Fab Labs and Fab Academy that it supports—emerged from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Bits and Atoms in 2009. The nonprofit organization established the Fab Lab program to provide communities around the world with digital prototyping platforms for local invention and entrepreneurship.

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When Vygon replaced its 2D software with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD in 2001, the company already had over 2000 components or finished products in its catalog. “The early stages were basically devoted to 3D modeling of existing parts, with a few priorities,” Laurent Lesimple Bobert, a Vygon designer, explains.

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RoboKopter, produces remote-controlled flying platforms used mostly for aerial shots and videos. Each of the products is designed with careful attention to every detail, constructed with the best materials, and equipped with the highest-quality cameras. Their services are used in the power engineering and gas industry; crisis management; civil engineering; and in agriculture, forestry, and environmental protection.

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Co-founders Todd Reichert and Cameron Robertson established Aerovelo to make the impossible—human-powered flight and human-powered speeds approaching 100 mph—possible. Combining Reichert’s passion for athletics and aerodynamic design and Robertson’s passion for structures and materials, Aerovelo is committed to inspiring public interest in science, technology, and environmentally conscious engineering.

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Chris Peters and Rob Ward founded Annex Products in 2012, off the back of two successful Kickstarter campaigns. The success of the Quad Lock mounting system—for securing smartphones to bicycles, armbands, a car dashboard, or other locations—has exceeded expectations so dramatically that it has become the company’s main consumer-facing brand. To develop its products, Annex needed a 3D development platform that supported fast design turnarounds so it could quickly respond to new smartphone models.

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Ultimaker B.V. is a Dutch 3D printer manufacturer that has held a prominent position within the 3D printing and Maker market since the company shipped its first printer in 2011. Although the company utilized 2D vector drawings to produce laser-cut parts for the Ultimaker Original printer, ramping up development and expanding its product offering required a more efficient development platform.

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Hidraulika Kurelja d.o.o. is the leading Croatian manufacturer of hydraulic systems and equipment. The company has expanded from its initial focus on servicing existing hydraulic systems to designing and producing its own line of products, including the development of hydraulic systems for specialty trucks, such as dumptrucks, garbage trucks, and aerial work platforms.

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Mecuris, an innovative German company, was founded to overturn this paradigm by providing orthopedists and wearers with greater flexibility and more prosthetic and orthotic options through the power of automated design, digital tailoring, and 3D printing.

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AeroLEDs designs and manufactures landing and navigational lighting systems for the aerospace industry and has been installing them on experimental, special-use, and military aircraft for the past decade.

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ITL Group is an award-winning medical device design, development, and manufacturing partner to companies that produce life-saving medical technologies, diagnostic devices, and analytical instruments.

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Guillaume Vendroux, CEO of Dassault Systèmes’ DELMIA software brand believes we are at the end of an era.

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