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design. To lighten their weight and optimize their sound quality (and to give
them a funky look), their bodies were lattice-like structures punctuated with
squiggly cutouts and oddly shaped cavities.
This printed electric guitar was made on a 3D Systems sPro 140
SLS system.
3D Systems, based in the United States, is one of the largest and oldest com-
panies that sell 3D printers, the IBM of the 3D printing industry. 3D Systems
has been selling high-end 3D printers since the 1980s. The company's busi-
ness strategy rests on two goals. One, to continue to build and sell powerful,
high-end 3D printers to industry. Two, to fulill the promise of the company
tagline, to provide “3D content-to-print solutions” by building a global end-
to-end platform to help people bring design ideas into the physical world. 3D
