CADchat’s cloud-based platform offers a better way to manage product development projects
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! Software development firm CADchat has launche…
UltiMaker Factor 4, a new industrial 3D printer for the factory floor: Technical Specifications and Pricing
Netherlands-based 3D printer manufacturer UltiMaker has launched Factor 4, its new FDM 3D printer for the industrial market. The new 3D printer supp…
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…
18-Year-Old Launches Low-Cost SLS 3D Printer on Indiegogo
Lukas Hoppe, an 18-year-old about to finish secondary school in Bremen, Germany is trying to raise money on Indiegogo to build a prototype of his design for an open source, desktop SLS 3D printer. Hop…
Space Farming with AstroGro's 3D Printed Smart Pod
Astronauts don’t exactly have the best food choices in space. Albeit, it has improved over the years from tiny cubes, freeze-dried powders, and oozy liquids to include almost anything that we ea…
Advanced Ceramics 3D Printing in the Works from HotEnd Works
The AM industry has recently been focusing more on the possibility of using additive manufacturing processes to produce high-resolution, geometrically complex ceramic objects that can be used for the …
Xuberance's 3D Printed Lamps Light Up Milan Design Week
Together with the Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone, the Salone Satellite is one of the many components that makes up Milan Design Week, one of the most important design events of the year. The Salone…
Autodesk to Host Live 3D Printing Resin Q&A Today
Last month, Autodesk let loose on the world the recipe for its first 3D printing resin, designed for the Ember DLP 3D printer. The resin, dubbed PR48, was published under the Creative Commons Attribu…
Materialise & SketchUp to Open Up Database of 2.7 Million 3D Printable Models
Streamline seemed to be the keyword for the 2015 Materialise World Conference, as the company set out to achieve a few different objectives and two of these involved the streamlining of medical 3D pri…
Update: MoonRay DLP 3D Printer Launches on Kickstarter
3D Print Week New York was a lot of fun, and there were dozens of exhibits that I can and probably will write about, but the first one that caught my eye was the MoonRay DLP 3D Printer booth. After I…
Staples Wants to Be the 3D Printing Solution for Small Businesses
At 3D Print Week in New York, I was invited to interview Behzad Soltani, Vice President of Global E-Commerce and Business Development at Staples, Inc. Having written about the company multiple times, …
New 3D Printing File Format to Be Unveiled by Microsoft
3D printing is on its way to a more commercial market with Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft investing in developing 3D technology. Last week at 3D Print Week in NYC, J Scott Schiller, Worldwide Business …
3D Printing Will Represent the Assembly Line of this Generation
Take a look at the history of supply chains and it may lead you all the way back to Henry Ford’s Assembly Line in 1913. As an industrial designer, mass production of consumer goods was the birthplace …
3D Printing CNC Combo Tool has 'Limitless' Potential
Ever since the hype around 3D printing diffused, as its manufacturing limitations were exposed, work began either on improving the technology inherently to match the hype or on modifying it to integra…
Monkeyfab Unveils Massive KILO 3D Printer Prototype
No matter how you look at it, FDM technology has more or less reached its full potential, with 3D printing materials as one of the few areas with room for improvement. The printing process invented an…