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…
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 …
Illois Launches Fully Assembled Photon DLP 3D Printer
As DLP/SLA printers begin to become more popular and visible, the price point will hopefully begin to drop significantly along with all other desktop 3D printers by the end of this year. This would h…
Researchers Demonstrate Micro 3D Printing with Atom-Thin Graphene Ink
While there has been some progress lately in extrusion-based graphene 3D printing (with Graphene Labs going as far as to announce a graphene enhanced filament as close to market), the research around …