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…
New & Improved Recycling Standards for the 3D Printing Era
The Pearce Research Group at Michigan Tech has made yet another significant step in making 3D printing a more sustainable practice. Though the university lab has made a good deal of progress in devel…
Accessorize the Apple Watch with CGTrader’s New 3D Printing Challenge
It’s incredible to note that, today, nearly wherever design occurs, you can be sure that 3D printing is close behind. And, with the way that 3D printing has evolved, you can also be sure that an…
Update: Volunteer to Digitally Restore the Two Authentic Artifacts from Iraq's Recently Attacked Mosul Museum
Among the innumerable tragedies brought about by war is the destruction of cultural artifacts that hold the keys to our collective human history. In the wake of the most recent US war in Iraq, the se…
DfC Shows Glimmers of New Business Models via 3D Printing
As per their own description, DfC (Design for Craft) is a “Design and Production Lab for technological handcraft”. The firm focuses primarily on research, industrial design, and materials …
From Graphic Design to 3D Printing, an Interview with Adobe's Paul Trani at SXSW
Occurring in the grand, new JW Marriot in downtown Austin, SXSW’s “Moving from Graphic Design to 3D Object Design” session, led by Adobe’s Paul Trani, focused largely on the in…
Board Games Made Open Source with 3D Printing
There have been a number of Makers that have pursued the 3D printing of game pieces for such popular games as Warhammer 40k and Carcassonne, perhaps infringing on the IP of one major manufacturer or a…
Sicnova Launches Huge 3D Printer & Accompanying 3D Scanning Booth
I am not exactly sure how the patent issue is proceeding; however, German RepRap already launched a machine called the X1000, an enclosed large FFF 3D printer last year and the original FDM patent ho…
3D Slash Really Does Make 3D Modeling a 3D Piece of Cake
A little while ago, a French developer named Sylvain Huet contacted me through my Italian 3D printing news site about a software called 3D Slash, which he and his development team refer to as a “3D Pi…
A Telepresence Bot for Makers is Oh So Close to Full Funding on Indiegogo
Whether or not you are rooting for telepresence bots that are easy to make, replicate, and improve to become a consumer product for the masses, a company called Origin Robotics is taking a go at it, a…
Custom 3D Printed Snowblower Really Blows
Nobody likes to shovel snow, especially not [The_Great_Moo] of RC Snowcats. He bought a Kyosho Blizzard SR remote-controlled snowplow for himself. Its performance, however, did not impress him. So, th…
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 lookin…
LinkBits: 3D Printing News for the Week of March 14
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…