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…
Dr. Recare Has the 3D Printed Prescription for Clean Beaches
What happens when a SUV, a robot and a 3D printer get married? We get Dr. Recare, a mobile, robotic beach doctor that can be tasked with cleaning plastic trash from our coastlines. And, rather than ju…
3D Printable Model of the Week: #JesuisCharlie
I’m sure you’ve heard by now that 3 masked gunman stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, and murdered 12 people. This was France’s worst terror attack in two decades. In NYC, hundreds of peop…
3D Printing 5 Objects Simultaneously with Digitrax MH 5
Though I do sometimes tire of seeing the twisty vase as an example of what a 3D printer can do, I like the fact that the new MH5 from Digitrax is at least trying to incorporate batch printing into a r…
New York Artist Takes 3D Printing for the Ultimate Motorcycle Ride
Sometime people are afraid that digital manufacturing will take something away from the arts, allowing anybody to express his or her creativity even if he or she lacks the talent. While that may or ma…
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…