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…
Ultimaker Is Youmagining Its Open Future with Thousands of R&D Contributors
From the Proto Space FabLab in Utrecht to becoming the company that is leading the way to personal manufacturing: it only took little over four years and two 3D printer models for Ultimaker to become …
MakerBot Desktop Update 3.2.1 is Out and Now More Compatible
With the release of update 3.2.1 for MakerBot Desktop the 3D printing workflow management system is now compatible with several of the older 3D printers in the MakerBot family and is no longer just av…
3D Printing Value-Leader Solidoodle Gives You More Bang For Your Buck
Solidoodle – which already has one of the most affordable line-ups of 3D printers – is set to slash the prices of all its printers by $100-$300. This means that its most basic model will be going for …
MakerBot’s Reseller Deal with A Focus on Camera Accessories
MakerBot continues to extend its sales channels across the US. Following last week’s announcement of a tentative deal with America’s second largest retailer, HomeDepot, the Brooklyn based 3D printer m…
3D Engineering Solutions and Nikon Metrology take CT Scanning Industrial
Industrial 3D scanning and modelling company 3D Engineering Solutions has teamed up with leading medical grade CT scanner manufacturer Nikon Metrology to create the next generation of metrology grade …
3DPI.TV – 3D Printed Smartphone Device to Detect Cancer
As Apple recently unveiled its iOS 8 HealthKit app designed to help users keep better track of their personal health data, other breakthrough healthcare smartphone technologies are also in development…
Pakistani Engineer to Build 3D Printing Ecosystem
Ever since the RepRap revolution began at the end of the last decade, low-cost desktop 3D printing has been changing lives across the world. Due to its open source nature, countless variations of the…
US Army's 3D Printed Skin Near Ready for Clinical Trials
Wake Forest University’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine is where some of the best 3D bioprinting news springs forth. The North Carolina-based institute has developed 3D printed cartilage an…
3D Printing Big Brands On-Demand, Under License via Shapeways
Last week, I wrote about Things3D, a new venture set up by Joe Wee and his partner. The venture is an interesting one but the central issue it poses is that of licensing brands with a 3D printing purp…
3D Model Marketplace CGTrader is ‘Hiring For Work’
With its new “We’re Hiring For Work” campaign and by focusing their latest design challenge on jewellery – a fast growing segment of 3D printed consumer goods – CGTrader hopes to expand its alre…
Arcam Is Leading the Charge as Metal-Based AM Enters New Growth Phase
Terry Wohlers said it clearly in the latest report on the state of the global 3D printing industry: organic growth is taking place primarily in the industrial metal additive manufacturing sector and t…
MatterFab Launches Affordable 3D Metal Printing
The side of 3D printing often shown by mass media is either the desktop plastic printing variety, printers shown making toys and other tchotchkes, or the Ripley’s Believe It or Not variety, prin…