Stratasys 3D Prints Skis

[RedSox2013]

It's Winter Olympic time, and what a better time fr a bit of a publicity stunt than to 3D print a set of skis. That's just what Stratasys has done. They used Fused Deposition Modeling to print out the skis which were made of Ultem 9084 Resin. They used their Fortus 900mc Production System, and did a tremendous job. They had to break the main ski up into 2 parts, the tip and the tail, because the size was too large to be printed at once in the Fortus.


Left to right: Dominic Mannella, Stratasys Senior Applications Engineer; Scott Crump, Stratasys Chairman and Chief Innovation Officer; Darin Everett, Territory Manager. S. Central US, Stratasys; Eric Bert, Vice President of Commercial Sales – North America, Stratasys

Some more info on the final printed ski. Their founder uses it, so I guess he trusts his own product :

[TopThiniverse]

Do the olympic skiers use these?