This week sees two pertinent exhibitions involving digital design, cultural heritage and 3D printing open to the public. In Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) museum, 10 3D printed ceramic vases bearing the name of 10 culturally significant objects or…
E3D Online releases upgraded Chimera and Cyclops 3D printer hot-ends
E3D Online, a UK-based manufacturer of 3D printer components has released a new range of dual-extrusion hot-ends for 3D printing. The upgraded Chimera and Cyclops hot-ends are available in versions suitable for both air-cooled and water-cooled dual extrusion. Customers can choose…
Voodoo Manufacturing add Raise3D 3D printers to offer large format 3D printing service
New York-based 3D printing service bureau Voodoo Manufacturing has launched a new Large Format 3D Printing service, expanding beyond the initial MakerBot 3D printers currently in use. The new service, which incorporates 10 new FFF Raise 3D printers, follows a…
Large-scale 3D printed sculptures to debut at York Mediale, a new digital art festival
As part of the York Mediale festival 2018, British-Colombian artist Matthew Plummer-Fernandez will exhibit a new series of large-scale 3D printed sculptures examining the future of manufacturing, digital fabrication and the creative potential of 3D printing. Plummer-Fernandez has designed his…
3D printing news Sliced, NASA, EOS, Kodak and Materialise
Which country celebrated a century of freedom by sending a 3D printed gnome into space? How did one grandfather raise thousands to help his local school buy a 3D printer? How did 3D printing change one rescued dog’s life forever?…
HKU’s pavilion of 1000 3D printed clay structures goes on display
Designers from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) combined traditional Chinese clay craft with 3D printed architecture to create the CeramicINformation pavilion, a 3m² structure made up of 1000 interconnected clay structures. The CeramicInformation project, led by Christian J. Lange and Donn Holohan…
Fraunhofer IGD unveils autonomous 3D scanning system
The Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (Fraunhofer IGD) in Darmstadt, Germany, has developed an autonomous 3D scanner capable of scanning objects in real time without needing to be taught how to do so. The institute, which has recently been researching…
Grafter 3D software lets you remix and 3D print working mechanical parts
The Hasso Plattner Institut (HPI), a design, digital and engineering institute at the University of Potsdam has developed the Grafter 3D software system, which allows users to remix 3D models machines and create working mechanisms that can be 3D printed.…
Dippy the dinosaur heads into 21st Century with 3D printing and scanning
The Natural History Museum (NHM) in London’s Diplodocus carnegii model is touring the UK, and it will be accompanied by two 3D printed replicas of its skull. The two 3D printed resin models of Dippy, as the dinosaur is affectionately…
Evonik material production capacity increases by 50% due to 3D printing demand
Evonik, the largest speciality chemicals company in the world, has opened a new Polyamide 12 (PA12) powder production plant to meet an increased demand for 3D printing materials and metal coatings. The new Marl Chemical Park facility near Essen, Germany, will…
