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…
Microsoft Unveils New HoloLens Features, Partnerships, Robots at Build 2015
San Francisco, California – //Build 2015: There’s no release date for Windows 10, or a price for the Microsoft Hololens… For Android Developers, there is now an app subsystem that a…
Hod Lipson, 3D Printing, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Imagine a world 10, 20, 30 years from now, where 3D printers aren’t just producing single plastic components, but are fabricating complete electronic devices. In fact, they’re not even ca…
LulzBot 3D Prints 500,000th 3D Printer Part
Aleph Objects began in Loveland, Colorado in 2011 as a humble company dedicated to the open source philosophy. And, since its inception, its LulzBot line of desktop 3D printers has become among the m…
Amidst Lowered Q1 Earnings and Lay-Offs, Stratasys Reaches Out to 3rd Party Vendors as Customer Service Reps
If your 3D printer is broken down and you just can’t seem to fix it, you might look for your local 3D print shop or makerspace and see if any one of those 3D printing experts might be able to he…
Digital Models Now Hand-Made and 3D Printed with D-Coil
Here’s something that brings a unique twist to digital 3D modeling. D-Coil is a tool that doesn’t use the traditional mouse, but your hands (& a wax extruder) to design a 3D digital mo…
Manufacturing Imaginaries: Neo-Nazis, Men’s Rights Activists and 3D Printing
Consider this: something that drives desires and fears around new technologies is often not what people actually are doing with technology, but what they might do with technology in the future. It is …
3D Graphene Structures 3D Printed with "Liquid Smoke"
Supported by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), researchers have successfully printed periodic 3D microlattices of graphene aerogel! A mouthful I know, but it’s something that…
Lowe's Embraces 3D Printing, Beginning with Orchard Supply Hardware
After such name brands as Home Depot, Staples, and UPS have gotten into the space in one way or another, the latest mainstream company to jump onto the 3D printing train is Lowe’s. Lowe’s…
With Scanningcars.com I Might Finally Get the 3D Printable Chevette I Always Wanted
When I first visited the Scanningcars.com website – a database of watertight, 3D printable car models – the first thing I thought is: “why in the world would someone want to create 3D mod…
Artec 3D Launches Studio 10 Software for Quicker, Easier, More Accurate 3D Scanning
Along with their new Space Spider scanner, leading manufacturer and developer of 3D hardware and software Artec 3D has also announced the release of Studio 10, a comprehensive software suite compatibl…
Artec 3D's New Space Spider Designed for 3D Scanning in Space
“Imagine the potential of using 3D scanning technology on the international space station paired with a 3D printer,” said Artyom Yukhin, president and CEO of Artec 3D. As if foreshadowing a not-too-d…
Italy’s LIUC University Opens the First MakerBot Innovation Center in Europe
While it is true that MakerBot has laid of part of its staff and closed shops in the US, it is equally true that the Stratasys-owned, Brooklyn-based company has been expanding significantly overseas, …