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…
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…
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…
Implications for 3D Printing: Particles Form Gelatin-Like Substance at High Temperatures
New research from a team at New York University may have significant implications for materials research and lead to sharpened detail in 3D printing. Published in Nature Materials, the study examines…
Slic3r Creator Alessandro Ranellucci Discusses the Future of His 3D Printing Software
The biggest challenge for any single aspect of the 3D printing industry is trying to unify and standardize its many faces. In my opinion, there is not, and there has never been, an industrial sector t…
Award Winning Online Customization Tool Kwambio Focuses On Talent
Although it is not live yet, when you visit the placeholder website for online 3D printable model marketplace Kwambio you can already get a taste of what it is aiming to achieve: a smooth and seamless…
$1 Million Award to Fund Integrated Electronics 3D Printing
Now that we’ve got a number of advanced 3D printing technologies, from high-end metal 3D printers to low-cost desktop fabricators, we await the day when 3D printed items become fully-functional …
Cyrus Printers Releases New Palette of Inexpensive Filaments
Netherlands based startup Cyrus printers has released a whole range of new filament which they claim is cheaper compared with the rest of the market while at the same time keeps the quality high. Cre…
Artist 3D Prints 3 Foot Tall Sculpture for Phoenix's Shemer Art Center
At the Shemer Art Center in Phoenix, Arizona from October 17 to November 27 is an extensive art exhibition devoted to 3D printed artwork. And, at the center of the “Materialize: 3D Printing & Rap…