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…
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…
The Ecosystem of 3D Printing: Part 5
So, Where is it all Headed? The emerging 3D printing ecosystem, which barely existed a year ago, is growing at an incredible rate. In a network environment where everybody has access to everything tha…
Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 1)
Could the democratization of tech-based entrepreneurship be both a boon and a bane? Our Four (STEAM-driven) Disruptors (the PC, the Internet, Social Media and 3D printing) have certainly assured that …
Utrecht Set Become a Global Center For 3D Bioprinting
Bioprinting is fascinating. We have not yet even come close to fully mastering the possibilities offered by additive manufacturing of plastic and metal components that we are already dreaming of 3D pr…
To Sculptor Kevin Caron, 3D Printers are Just Another Tool to Help Him Make Art
Kevin Caron is an artist and vlogger who uses 3D printers to prototype his new sculpture concepts. In his latest 3D printing video Kevin discusses his reasons for switching to a new Open Source Cerber…