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…
Proto-pasta Getting Ready to Electrify CES with Conductive 3D Printing Filament
After announcing its upcoming Stainless Steel and Magnetic Iron PLA filaments for 2015, Vancouver, Washington-based filament producer Proto-pasta is now going electric by launching a Kickstarter campa…
Stumpy the Turtle Gets New Leg From Elementary Students
3D printing has helped improve the lives of lots of people by lowering the cost of prosthetics and making them easily customizable. Although prosthetics are usually designed for humans,we aren’t the o…
Rachel Park’s Top 5 3D Printing Applications for 2014
2014 has certainly been a wild ride — the 3D printing industry is maturing. As a result the number of stories about the tech and its applications is proliferating exponentially and keeping up has been…
Brainsgate and Formlabs Team Up to Research Patient-Specific 3D Printing for Stroke Treatment
It’s always exciting news to discover that 3D printing is finding its way into medical treatments and research. Most recently, Princeton embedded tiny light emitting diodes into a contact lens, provi…
A New 3D Printer Company in Korea: Things Are Happening in a Moment
A while ago, Mark Lee took a visit to G-star 2014, one of the largest video gaming shows in the world, and, as readers may recall, found a 3D printer there. As it turned out to our surprise, it was t…
Use of 3D Printing in Automotive Set to Quintuple in Five Years
A few weeks ago, we reported on a SmarTech report compiled by Senior Analyst Scott Dunham, which saw the compound value of 3D printing technologies and materials in the automotive sector set to grow t…
The Mobile 3&D 3D Printing Bot: the Proof Is in a Cycle of Inspiration
As far as prototypes and proof-of-concept machinery goes in the 3D printing industry, it’s best to be a little weary. A proof of concept may be have quite a dip on its product roadmap ocean floor, an…
Autodesk is Banking on Indian Infrastructure Design Revenues to Help Finance Spark Platform
Although the two are not directly related, Autodesk, a world leading CAD software developer and publisher, is banking on the huge demand for 3D design in India’s booming infrastructure to boost its re…
Afinia Jumps UP to the H800 3D Printer with May Launch
Afinia 3D, also known as UP 3D Printers in an alternative context, has announced the upcoming launch of the new Afinia H800, a radically redesigned upgrade to its previous (and very successful) H480 r…
More Emerges about the First Manufacturer of 3D House Printers
In May of this year, we reported on an enigmatic Slovenian company that was ready to take orders for house printers, ranging in price from about €12,000 to €32,000. I’d emailed the company, Bet…
Hoover Invites Thingiverse Community to 3D Print Vacuum Accessories
Not long after iRobot announced that their next version of the Roomba robotic floor cleaner would be hackable with 3D printed mods, vacuum giant Hoover announced a 3D printing spin to their own classi…
Historic Polish Sculptures 3D Printed in Woodfill are Uncanny
Last summer Mike wrote about a design company’s use of ColorFabb’s wood 3D printing filament, Woodfill, to recreate a piece of historical sculpture for a Polish church in Luban. Fucco Design has final…