The latest design challenge for 3D printing comes from MakerBot and GrabCAD. The premise for this collaborative challenge is to design a futuristic vehicle that would exist in the year 2040. It’s a f…
A Slic3r Update
Slic3r – software that generates the required G-code for 3D printing — has recently had an upgrade with improvements and new features added to ‘enhance the printing experience.’ The primary added feat…
New 3D Printing Retail Space in The Netherlands
The Netherlands is the latest country to get a physical 3D printing retail space. 3DSVP is the organization behind this new 3D print shop, which is due to open officially in January 2013. 3DSVP does a…
$2.5M in Private Equity Funding for leading 3D Printing Service Sculpteo
In a bid to accelerate the growth of its 3D printing business, Sculpteo has just announced that the company has secured $2.5 million of private equity funding from XAnge. Sculpteo is one of the origin…
Get a Gripper — 3D Printed Of Course
Ball bearing grippers — used prolifically in many different types of industrial special-purpose machinery — are one of those products that are easily overlooked, and, let’s be honest, do not generally…
Formlabs Fuels Further Speculation
Following 3D Systems’ filing of a patent infringement lawsuit against Formlabs on the 20th November, the latter has remained virtually silent with the exception of a fairly upbeat, concise blog post t…
Introducing voxeljet's smallest 3D printer: the VX200
With all of the excitement at Euromold around the large 3D printer platforms that were unveiled this year, one much smaller machine has been somewhat overlooked. We aim to rectify that here. Voxeljet …
3D Systems Targets Mommy
I was fascinated to learn about some of 3D Systems upcoming plans for the beginning of next year from Abe Reichental last week. After the success of the Cube café concept, which will continue to evolv…
3D Systems Takes Quickparts Global
One of the nuggets of news that came from 3D Systems at Euromold last week was that the company’s Quickparts service is coming to Europe. It kind of got lost in all of the 3D printing activity, includ…
Afinia Adds New Filament Options to 3D Printing Material Range
Afinia, suppliers of the Afinia H-Series 3D printer, has just recently introduced three new varieties of its ‘Value Line’ ABS Filament. The newly added materials include transparent filament as well a…