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…
LinkBits: 3D Printing News for the Week of February 21st
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 qu…
3D Printed Kids' Doodles Exhibited at Children's Museum of the Arts
What better place for your kid’s artwork than in a museum? Kids Creation Station, the 3D printing service from media site 3DP4E that transforms doodles into full-color 3D prints, has given child…
Free 3D Printable of the Week: An Ancient Bronze Age Spearhead
Access to humanity’s past is crucial to understand the present in the larger historical context. With modern 3D scanning and 3D printing technologies, this access, previously only made available in mu…
Drone 3D Scans Brazil's 38-Meter-Tall "Christ the Redeemer"
Rio de Janeiro’s 38-meter-tall “Christ the Redeemer” is one of the most iconic statues in the world, but, up until now, the famous figure has yet to be fully captured as an accurate replic…
Protofusione Turns to 3DZ and 3D Systems for Some Serious Jewelry Making
Jewelry and jewels have been – and are still – one of the segments where 3D printing has already evolved as a method from prototyping to one for production, to the point where, now, going …
Stuffhub Teams with Papabubble for Custom Lollipops Made with 3D Printing
One of the simplest ways to get into food 3D printing is to create 3D printed molds for sweets. I was first made of these possibilities a couple of years ago when a Japanese firm began 3D printing mo…
High-Schoolers Gift Two-Year-Old with a 3D Printed Hand
Students at Brenham High School have, literally, given a hand to a two-year-old boy named Kaedon, The San Francisco Globe reports. Kaedon suffers from amniotic band syndrome, a syndrome caused by a f…
ExOne 3D Printers are Getting Six New Metal Alloys
3D printing stocks have taken a shellacking lately, and ExOne, manufacturer of industrial 3D printers ExOne like the Innovent and M-Flex, hit $16.09, down 2.37%. Reflecting this volatility, ExOne, wit…
Recycle Old 3D Prints with the Cruncher
After successfully launching two different iterations of their DIY filament extruder, ExtrusionBot has hit Kickstarter again with another 3D printing accessory that can help reduce filament wastes and…
Rolls-Royce to Fly Largest 3D Printed Part Ever Flown
GE has already made enormous strides in industrial 3D printing by opening a mass additive manufacturing facility to produce the 3D printed fuel nozzles for its advanced LEAP jet engines. Competing wi…
Mini-Doc Gives the Back Story on Life-Size 3D Printed Elephant
Last august, 3D printing designer and engineer Joris van Tubergen thought up a clever method for drawing attention to the plight of endangered elephants for World Elephant Day. Using five ingeniously-…
Can Open Source Really Work in Scientific Research?
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a study by Michigan Technological University’s Professor Joshua Pearce in which he calculated some hard numbers about the potential savings of adopting open …