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…
3D Printer Company Be3D Shifts Focus to Industrial Design
Czech 3D printer manufacturer Be3D has announced a unique direction for their company and will begin focusing on a new market by offering a line of 3D printable products, in addition to continuing to …
Zortrax Looks to Take Over the World with 3D Printing, Seeks Resellers to Help Them Do It
No, Zortrax is not the name of a Superman villain. It’s a Polish company that made waves last January when the relatively small and unknown 3D printer manufacturer received an order for 5,000 3D print…
India’s Oldest 3D Printer Company Makemendel Offers More Than Just 3D Printers
While the 3D printing industry in India has been on fire lately, Makemendel has been quietly producing well-regarded and inexpensive 3D printers for over two years. Though they may no longer be the on…
3D Printed Video Game Characters Are Getting Smarter with Things3D
So far, the only video game characters that have effectively made the “transition” from the virtual to the physical world have been those born in the universes of Activision’s Skylanders: Spyro’s Adve…
LittleRP 3D Printer Blows Past Kickstarter Goal in Less Than One Day
In May, 3DPI covered an open source projector-based resin 3D printer that aimed to hit Kickstarter with an opening price tag of less than $500. This morning, the LittleRP did just that and, before I …
Adafruit Shows You How To 3D Print a Comfortable Oculus Rift
Two very different materials, Ninjaflex and PLA, are combined in a DIY wearable HD monitor project by Adafruit. By 3D printing a rigid frame and a soft, comfortable hood for the their visor, Adafruit …
NASA to 3D Print Space Cameras in One Single Piece
About the amazing possibilities that 3D printing will offer space exploration, we have written everything and more. Paragon Space Development’s CEO Jayne Pointer told us how it will be key in long ter…
Silky Smooth: BioFila Offers PLA-Free Alternative Filament with Lignin.
Sometimes it is by a return to what is most natural that innovative technology finds a remarkable breakthrough. BioFila appears to have an answer for a fully biodegradable filament that comes in two t…
QSQM Needs Help Giving Away Free Uncia 3D Printers to Schools in Asia
At the beginning of the month, Chinese 3D printing company QSQM Technology Corporation launched an Indiegogo campaign for a new upgraded and higher quality Uncia DLP 3D printer. Thankfully they didn’t…
Disney Researchers Use Physics and 3D Printing to Create Impossible Spinning Objects
Apparently ‘Disney Researcher’ is a job that really exists, and a group of them have just developed a way to calculate the exact distribution of mass within an object, in order to control its center o…
Gambody Startup Wants Gamers to Play into the 3D Printing Revolution
The relationship between gaming and 3D printing is a subject that I am most attentive to, probably because the synergy between these two, very similarly three dimensional, creative expressions has not…
New 3D Hubs Trend Report Shows Distributed Manufacturing is Evolving Rapidly
The new monthly trend report from 3D Hubs for the month of July is in and, as usual, it contains an extremely wide set of information that accurately depicts one aspect of the 3D printing industry, th…