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…
The 3D Printed Hand-Cranked Vinyl Record Player Is Kind of Awesome
3D designer Oana Croitoru created an amazing hand cranked 3D printable vinyl record player for MakerBots recent Ghostly Vinyl Design Challenge. Thingiverse designers were asked to design novel, person…
Ilios3D Breaks The Mould For Stereolithography
“The entire 3D printing experience has been rethought and redesigned from the ground up. Providing the tools and capabilities any engineer, artist, architect or general DIY’er would ever want or…
Screwing Around with Formlabs
3D printer manufacturer Formlabs posted a guide for using their stereolithography 3D printer to create parts with screw threads. Obviously plastics and resins are not an optimal material to create thr…
3D Prototyped Underwater Robot To Solve Pipe Problem
Last December the European Union launched a project called TRACT. The project, which now encompasses a number of companies and research centres, has been initiated to develop the robotic inspection of…
DWS Adds NAUTA+ Parametric Editor to Its Manufacturing Solutions
When working with extremely high resolution SLA technologies such as the ones that Digital Wax Systems develops primarily for the dental and jewelry industries, precise and minimal supports become an …
UConn Researchers Use 3D Printing to Bring Out the Song in Antique Instruments
Playing for the first time in hundreds of years, antique musical instruments sing with the aid of 3D printing. We have written about the development before during its gestation period. Now, researcher…
Autodesk Opens Ember™ Explorer Program, Teams with 3D Industries for 3D Printing Search
Since the unveiling of the Ember 3D printer and Spark 3D printing platform at Inside 3D Printing in Santa Clara this year, we’ve been waiting for the time when Autodesk’s 3D printing techn…
i.Materialise Inks Deal to Expand its 3D Printing Platform into Asia
3D printing company Materialise has entered into a franchise agreement with a South East Asian integrated manufacturing services provider to provide localised 3D printing services to the Asian market.…
3D Printing Is Personalizing Tennis But Don’t Lose Your HEAD Just Yet
Ralf Schwinger, R&D Director at HEAD Sports, one of the world’s largest producers of tennis racquets and tennis related apparel, spoke at London’s 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing Industrial…
Zortrax Demonstrates 3D Printing Potential with KARO Coffee Table
I haven’t used a Zortrax M200 3D printer, yet, but, based on Make’s review of the M200 3D printer, it seems to be a pretty decent machine, with good print quality and a nice 200 × 200 × 18…
Youmagine is Having a “Useful 3D Prints” Contest!
YouMagine’s “Useful 3D Prints” contest essentially means that makers of tchotchkes and other “useless” items need not apply. The core ethos of engineering is emphasized here: How useful is the object…
Deep Space Industries Partners with 3D Printing Firm for CubeSat Prototyping
As all sci-fi seems to forecast, human space travel is only just beginning. With a number of commercial spacecraft companies attempting to kick off the space race and NASA’s Orion spacecraft, p…