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…
NEA Spawns Beautiful Family of 3D Printers at CES
Launched at CES this year is one of the most elegant looking series of desktop 3D printers I’ve seen so far, more than eligible for Shane’s Sexiest 3D Printer award. The NEA family of FFF…
The 3D Printed Tardigrade Earns a Tardigrade-A
Chances are, you’ve seen the 3D printed tardigrade at this point, it became a bit of a minor 3D printing viral sensation, making it onto the editor at Popular Science’s Twitter feed and countless scie…
Make Sure Your Model 3D Prints with Shapeways 3D Tools
Last year, the big 3D printing bureaus began to evolve their customer-facing 3D printing tools. Shapeways introduced a wall-thickness fixing tool in March to allow users to thicken models too fragile…
Update: Materialise Powers Leapfrog Builder 3D Printing Software
Being one of the most commercially focused, semi-professional and professional 3D printer manufacturers, Netherlands-based Leapfrog has been very active in signing significant partnerships with import…
3D Hubs Adds 10,000th 3D Printer to Network
3D Hubs has made a huge impact on the 3D printing industry, ushering in a new production paradigm made not of centralized corporations with heavy polluting manufacturing plants, but of distributed min…
Robots 3D Scan Stuff Better Than You Ever Could
Poisson-guided auto scanning sounds complicated, but what it really represents is the actualization of an idea that a robot could scan an object more accurately than a human, which is not a novel or a…
MakerBot Brand 3D Printing to Spread Across Europe
After the launch of MakerBot Europe, the consumer 3D printer manufacturer has begun its march across Europe. The company has partnered with European Autodesk distributor and Tech Data Europe brand Da…
Print Arsenal Launches “First” Chocolate 3D Printer on Indiegogo
Despite the existence of other chocolate printers from other companies, a new startup named Print Arsenal is currently crowdfunding what they are saying is the “first” chocolate 3D printer called, app…
Politics and 3D Printing Make Strange Bedfellows: The Work of Fernando Sosa
Last year, you probably saw a butt plug shaped like Putin rolling around the Internet. The story was published everywhere, not just your ordinary 3D printing sites. From The Huffington Post and Gawk…
Focus on 3D Printing In China: HLH Prototypes
What isn’t made in China? Take a look at this list from International Business Times. Besides owning 20% of US debt held by foreign nations, they produce a massive amount of goods using traditional m…
SUNY-ESF Offers Online Course on UV 3D Printing
The State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry – SUNY-ESF – already offers an entire suite of online classes on energy curing technologies and has now exp…
The 3D Printed NOMOON Speaker is Totally NOT a Death Star
Maker and engineer Rich Olsen has posted a great tutorial for 3D printing your own set of parametric speakers that are totally NOT a moon or star with a death theme and Disney Lawyers should totally n…