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Most Read Articles from Last Week – March 15th

All-In-One 3D Printer, CNC Machine, & Laser Engraver Funded with 38 Days to Go
Two brothers from Pittsburgh, Joel and Justin Johnson (aka the triple J bros), launched a Kickstarter campaign looking for $50,000 to begin full-scale production of their BoXZY combination 3D Printer,…


SolidWorks in the Cloud? Onshape CAD Modeling Launches Public Beta
I received an email today from Nancy Yi Liang, of Amazon (née MixeeLabs), with the subject line “Onshape Launches, SolidWorks in the cloud?” The link she directed me to was for a new cloud CAD platfor…


How to Win Friends & Two Ultimaker 2 3D Printers
Dutch 3D printer manufacturer Ultimaker is clearly growing. The latest 3D Hubs Trend Report has the Ultimaker 2 listed as the most popular printer in Europe and, while the company prepares for the lau…


Low-Cost Metal 3D Printing for $2K on Indiegogo
The Mini Metal Maker is a desktop 3D printer which extrudes a metallic clay to make “green” 3D objects that need to get fired up in a kiln to become fully solid, metal objects. 3DPI covered its releas…


Anvil Creation Center 3D Printer Hits Kickstarter for $349
Covering the desktop 3D printing boom that has occurred since 2012, I have learned not to underestimate newcomers to an already crowded market. Regardless of the number of RepRap derivatives or 3D pr…


3D Printing Titanium & the Bin of Broken Dreams (Part 1)My part, being sintered from titanium 6/4 powder.This post is part one of a series of three by Spencer Wright, a strategist …


Win a Job with ELLE, $750 in Jewelry, and a 3D Printer!
You really have to hand it to Pinshape for their creative contests! They’re back with a new one, and it’s a doozy. Pinshape is teaming up with no less than ELLE for a jewelry design contest! …


Free 3D Printable of the Week: an Indian Rhino
A little while back, 3DPI’s Davide Sher covered a new, free software called Smoothie-3D, which allows users to create 3D printable models from 2D images with ease. Using the 2D image as a texture map…


Autodesk Releases Recipe for Ember 3D Printing Material
Autodesk is, from all outward appearances, intending to make every bit of their DLP Ember 3D printer open source, including the material it uses. Today, the software-turned-hardware developer has rel…


3D Hubs Launches Special Filament Workshop Worldwide
For the past two years, 3D Hubs, the world’s largest distributed network of 3D printers, has been growing its community through meet-ups in countries all over the world. At these events, 3D…