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Most Read Articles from Last Week – February 1


The World’s “First” 3D-Printed House Begins Construction
In March of last year, Ari gave an in-depth review of the 3D Print Canal House, what is projected to be the “first” 3D printed house. At that point in time, the architects of Dutch firm DAS had built…



Stratasys’ Big Announcement — Multi-colour, Multi-material 3D Printing with the New Objet500 Connex3
Stratasys, who since it acquired Makerbot last year, has allowed its independent subsidiary to have its head; which is probably why the new Makerbot line-up of prosumer/consumer 3D printers took prior…



Zortrax Plays a Blinder with a MASSIVE 3D Printer Order from DELL
Yesterday, at 3DPI, we received a note from Pawel Slusarczyk, co-owner of Centrum Druku 3D a polish website covering 3D printing. He kindly pointed us to a very interesting development that has emerge…



3D Printing Flexible Textile Structures
The DREAMS Lab at Virginia Tech together with Negar Kalantar and Alireza Borhani have collaborated on researching Flexible Textile Structures with 3D Printed fabrics. For this process they used two ad…



Credit Suisse Issues New 3D Printing Stock Ratings
In September of last year, international financial services group, Credit Suisse had come out with its predictions about 3D printing stocks. They previously listed 3D Systems (DDD) with an Outperform …



A Golden Future for 3D Printing in Italy
Economic crisis or not, Italy remains a leading global manufacturing hub for jewellery. Vicenza, in the Northern Italian region of Veneto, is among the areas with the highest density of artisans and d…



Continuous Carbon Fiber 3D Printer Unveiled at SolidWorks World
When we wrote about the SolidWorks World expo – devoted to 3D modeling and its applications – last week, I mentioned that “a mysterious company called Mark Forged” would make its debut at the event. …



Robots and Drones Use Brushed DC motors, So Why Not 3D Printers?
In the magical — or rather, technical — world of makers and 3D printing everyone can use his or her own expertise to improve on the design, functionality and inner workings of the machines. So if you …



It is Finished — 3D Printing The Forbidden City
Last October, Leapfrog 3D printers started 3D printing China’s ‘Forbidden City’ in its entirety, in collaboration with Dutch museum De Nieuwe Kerk and the Chinese Nanjing Museum. The project was an on…



The Wolf of Wall Street Gets Some 3D Printed Assistance
I haven’t seen the Wolf of Wall Street yet. When I found out that there wasn’t going to be an actual stock trading wolf in it, I decided to pass. Now that I know that 3D printing was involved in the m…