Siemens launches its new AI-powered assistant for industrial engineering
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! Industrial manufacturing firm Siemens has unv…
UMaine unveils its largest next-generation polymer 3D printer
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! The University of Maine (UMaine) has demonstr…
Materialise adds novel AM materials to its portfolio
Belgian 3D printing company Materialise has introduced three new materials to its AM portfolio. These materials include Polyamide 12S (PA 12S), Polyamide 11 (PA 11) for Multi Jet Fusion, and Carbon Fi…
Occipital Raises $13M for 3D Scanning & Spatial Computing
Occipital, Inc. has been making a stir since the launch of their low-cost 3D scanner on Kickstarter, eventually seeing the licensing of their iPad/iPhone-based Structure Sensor to 3D Systems and the u…
Afinia Unveils ES360 Tabletop 3D Scanner
As their new H800 3D printer gets prepped for shipping to pre-order customers, Afinia has revealed another bit of news: the release of a tabletop 3D scanner. The ES360 desktop scanner broadens the co…
Panasonic Launches 3D Printing Photo Lab with 120 Lumix Cameras
3D portraiture is one of the most immediately consumer-ready 3D printing products available, but it’s been slow to catch on with big name businesses, though Disney/Marvel has been testing out 3D…
Michigan Tech Opens Up Reusable Substrates for Metal 3D Printing
In 2013, the lab of Prof. Joshua Pearce at Michigan Tech had designed an open source metal 3D printer that could be assembled for less than $2,000. The lab is still working hard on their technology a…
3D Printer Review: Portable 3D Printing Arrives with the Ultimaker Go
It took some time, through 3D print shows and faires, but I finally I got Ultimaker to send me its its newest, portable creation to test and review. Lately, I have been developing a taste for testing …
3D Scanning: the Achilles Heel of IP Protection for 3D Printing
Jerry Fisher unexpectedly found himself in legal hot water after publishing 3D models of a famous Michelangelo statue located on Augustana College’s campus. Mr. Fisher used hundreds of photographs of …
Illustrated Tales Made Physical with 3D Printing
More and more 3D printed consumer products are beginning to – literally – take a physical form. The formula that seems to be affirming itself is that of either using 3D printing to create …
Build Your Own 3D Printed Electric Skateboard with Faraday Motion
Want to build your own electronic transportation device? Faraday Motion wants to teach you how to do so in a very short period of time, both through simple, open engineering and an upcoming webinar. W…
Materialise Sends Medical 3D Printing Across Japan with Latest Deal
Belgium-based Materialise NV, most widely known for creating powerful medical modeling software and 3D printing solutions, announced the signing of a five-year partnership with Japan Medical Dynamic M…
Mapal Mass Manufactures Drills to Perfection with 3D Printing
Although we aren’t always aware of it, the number of companies using 3D printing for end-use manufacturing of parts is constantly growing. Most of the times, they rely on AM to produce industria…
Branch Technology is 3D Printing the Future of Construction One Wall at a Time
“Did you know,” Platt Boyd asks me, “that the way we construct buildings hasn’t really changed for 10,000 years? The oldest extant structures are about 10,000 years old and tho…
US to Open Large-Scale Metal 3D Printing Facility with Norsk Titanium
There are a number of 3D printing facilities across the US, including Stratasys’ Direct Manufacturing and GE’s Alabama plant, dedicated to their 3D printed LEAP fuel nozzles. Apparently, h…