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…
Optimizing 3D printing performance with Bondtech’s Core Heating Technology
Core Heating Technology (CHT) from Bondtech, the Swedish manufacturer of world-leading filament feeders, increases 3D printing speeds by over 30%. CHT…
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…
University of Twente 3D Prints Metal Structures at 100 Nanometer Scale
Plastic filaments currently dominate the 3D printing field, since they melt at relatively low temperatures, form stackable disk-shaped structures, and bond together with ease. Although this material h…
LinkBits: 3D Printing News for the Week of June 20
Another week, another round of LinkBits: your source for brief bits of news from the 3D printing industry. The industry is booming and so are we, so here is a list of stories that we couldn’t quite fi…
Free 3D Printable of the Week: 10 Game Characters
The Free 3D Printable of the Week this week is a 10-fer. You get 10 3D printables for one low, low price, in honor of E3. Regardless of how you feel about the news released at this year’s even…
Uncanny Full-Color 3D Printing from Fraunhofer Researchers
Color 3D printing just got a huge boost from the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research in Germany. Until now, Mcor’s paper 3D printing and 3D Systems binder-jetting processes have …
Former Pratt & Whitney Team Members Launch 3D Printing Start-Up
One of the industries currently most benefiting from the explosion of growth in 3D printing (and government funds related to it), is the aerospace industry. With a number of large manufacturers incre…
Afinia Fights Back in Stratasys Lawsuit with Prior Art Claim
In November, 2013, 3D printing leader Stratasys filed a lawsuit against Microboards Technology LLC, the company behind the Afinia brand of 3D printers, claiming infringement against their FDM patents.…
Court to Decide Key Question on Patentability of 3D Digital Models
Sometime this summer, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will decide how patent law should treat digital representations of physical objects, which some people call “3D digital models”.…
Bracing for a Revolution, Exovite Envisions a Connected 3D Printed Splint
In 2013, at the apex of the latest boom in 3D printing, one of the designs that best captured the public’s imagination, as to the possibilities offered by 3D printing, was the Cortex arm cast by Evill…
Allegheny to Supply Aerospace with Nickel Superalloy for 3D Printing
As a response to the growing demand for additively manufactured parts in aerospace for jet engines, as well as high demand in the electrical energy, medical, gas and oil markets, metals producer Alleg…
3D Printed Smart Insoles Hit the Ground Running with Major Investment
Wiivv Wearables is Vancouver-based company that makes biomechanically optimized custom insoles with 3D printing. And, now, their high-tech orthotics just got a major push from global 3D printing mate…
New Software from Dassault Systèmes & Safran Group Seamlessly 3D Prints Aerospace Parts
As a greater number of aerospace manufacturers adopt the practice of 3D printing high performance end parts for direct use in their aircraft, their biggest concern is often quality control. Metal 3D …
e-NABLE to Give Out 6,000 3D Printed Hands by 2017
At the end of last month, exciting news was reported that the most notable creator of low-cost 3D printed prosthetics, e-NABLE, had received a $600,000 grant from Google.org. Today, the Enable Commun…