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…
Polish TYTAN Emerges with Gaja Multitool 3D Printer & 10 Interchangeable Toolheads
Poland has been increasingly putting out popular and impressive desktop manufacturing machines, with one of the most versatile being Zmorph’s multi-tool personal fabricator. The country is now …
Xuberance's 3D Printed Wedding Dresses Draw Praise in Shanghai
Xuberance, a Shanghai design studio, displayed two unique SLS 3D printed wedding dresses at the Shanghai Convention & Exhibition Center of International Sourcing in China from March 12-14. Steven…
3D Printing Converts a Man's Wheelchair into an Electric Scooter
There are countless 3D printing stories that give me a shot of inspiration. Among them is that of Hung Cheng-ching. Hung has a spinal cord injury, which is why he invented a modular 11-kilogram elec…
Breakthrough! Layerless 3D Printing! 25-100x Faster Prints!
You see the timer there? That is in minutes!!! Carbon 3D materialized out of nowhere at the TED conference yesterday and introduced a whole new approach to polymer-based 3D printing that might …
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…