{"id":1959,"date":"2017-03-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fathommfg.com\/blog\/2017-east-bay-eda-innovation-awards"},"modified":"2017-03-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T00:00:00","slug":"2017-east-bay-eda-innovation-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fathommfg.com\/blog\/2017-east-bay-eda-innovation-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 East bay EDA Innovation Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

2017 East Bay EDA Innovation Awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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For the fifth consecutive year, the East Bay EDA Innovation Awards ceremony featured 3D printed trophies designed and produced by Fathom. The annual event brings the professional community together to recognize and commemorate companies who make cutting-edge contributions in their respective industries. For this year\u2019s concept, Fathom\u2019s in-house industrial designers and engineers were inspired by the innovative \u2018disruption\u2019 each of the nominated organizations embodied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cTo be innovative, you must disrupt the common way of thinking.\u201d<\/em><\/b>
\u2014 Aaron Porterfield, Fathom Industrial Designer<\/em><\/p>\n\t\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The pattern inside the main body of the trophy imitates multiple sine waves colliding, an intersection that creates what is called an \u2018interference pattern\u2019\u2014like drops into a pool of water, one wave is disrupted by another wave moving in a different direction. The trophies were 3D printed using three materials on a PolyJet-based 3D printer, then sanded and polished for their finished look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lattice structure of the trophy base was also designed for additive manufacturing (DFAM) and it demonstrates the many benefits of taking a DFAM approach\u2014design complexity, weight reduction, faster production time, etc. The base was 3D printed on a SLS system in Nylon and dyed black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fathom is excited to continue this partnership with East Bay EDA and looks forward to continuing to build the economic core of Oakland. In addition to Fathom\u2019s trophy contribution this year, Fathom Co-Founder Rich Stump participated as a judge for the Advanced Manufacturing category. Two years ago, Fathom received the Advanced Manufacturing Award, which is proudly displayed at our headquarters in Oakland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PREVIOUS AWARD DESIGNS<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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For the fifth year, Fathom designed 3D printed trophies for the 2017 East Bay EDA Innovation Awards, using PolyJet and SLS Nylon for an iconic look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"tag_industry":[33],"tag_technology":[14],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag_industry-all-industries","tag_technology-3d-printing-services"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathommfg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathommfg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathommfg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathommfg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathommfg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fathommfg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathommfg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathommfg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathommfg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathommfg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"tag_industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathommfg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag_industry?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"tag_technology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathommfg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag_technology?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}