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…
Formlabs launches new 3D printers Form 4 and Form 4B
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! 3D printer OEM Formlabs has launched its new desktop re…
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…
How to 3D Print a Head from MRI
Michael Ee posted a nice little guide on how to 3D Print a head from an MRI Scan. He uses 3D Slicer and Meshmixer on Mac OS X. Time to get 3D Printing!…
UNC Student 3D Prints a Fix for His Wheelchair
As part of the UNC Chapel Hill’s new Research Hub Initiative, access to 3D printers, modelling software and 3D scanning are now open to all students and faculty. You can see the specs of the lab righ…
Stratasys Brings Together 5 World-Renowned Designers at ACADIA Conference
When the same conference is hosting some of the most renowned and respected personalities in fields as diverse as architecture, gaming design and making you know something important is going to come o…
All 3D Printed Parts Served to You on a Silver Build Plate
Here’s a useful tool for all of you 3D printer users out there! When 3D printing multiple parts in a single build, it can be a real pain in the extruder to lay them out to maximize your printbed…
Sarah Hoit on Material ConneXion's New Directory of 3D Printing Materials
Most of us think of libraries as repositories of traditional books (ink on bound paper) and their digital analogs — information content that is displayed on screens. Material ConneXion Inc. (MCX) is a…
Mark One Composite Material 3D Printer Receives Prestigious ACE Award
Composites are one of the most interesting new frontiers for 3D printing materials, albeit one that is only at the very (very) beginning of its exploration. While there have already been practical att…
New Kinect Adapter Gives 3D Builder Full-Color 3D Scanning Powers for 3D Printing
With a number of open source and commercial apps for 3D scanning with the Microsoft Kinect, it has become a favorite tool for DIY 3D printed portrait booths. When the new Xbox One Kinect was to be re…
Blueprinter Introduces New Elastic Material and M2 Model
Okay, it’s easy for the Bueprinter to be everyone’s favourite selective heat sintering (SHS) 3D printer as it is the only company in the world that currently offers such a system on the market. Still,…
Inside 3D Printing Santa Clara Day Three: Final Thoughts … & the Power of Bacon
Bacon makes everything better. After an excruciatingly long day two at the Inside 3D Printing Santa Clara conference my body was a little upset at my suggestion that we do it one more time. But I made…
What’s Going On In the 6th Dimension?
Changing Technologies is an interesting company, as is their new subsidiary 6th Dimension. They seem to sit somewhere between a start-up SME with product potential and a concerning publicly floated my…
Gearing up for Inside 3D Printing Shanghai: 3DPI Interviews Wim Michiels of Materialise
Ahead of the next edition of the Inside 3D Printing expo series, which takes place in Shanghai next month (November 4–5), 3DPI caught up with one of the speakers on the conference programme, Wim Michi…
Sintratec Desktop Laser Sintering 3D Printer Approaches Crowdfunding Release
Last month, we reported on the Sintratec 3D printer, a desktop laser sintering machine with a price tag of €3990. The Swiss startup behind the machine is moving closer to the 3D printer’s crowdf…