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…
3DPI.TV – Customizable Mission-Specific 3D Printed Drones
Whether it’s helping find survivors in natural disasters or giving critical intelligence to the military during armed conflict, 3D printing can now produce just the drone that is needed for any situat…
Printrbot Re-Emphasizes Focus on Education with Printrbot Learn
Printrbot has always been big into education. Since founder Brooke Drumm’s first Kickstarter video, the brand has emphasized the ability of 3D printing to spur STEAM learning. At the various 3…
Inside the Inside 3D Printing Conference & Expo, Seoul – Beyond Expectations!
If you have ever looked forward to an event with great anticipation, waited patiently for it to arrive, and found it to be even more exciting than your wildest expectations…you can understand exactly …
The FBI Wants to Use a Stratasys Objet24 to Study the 3D Printed Bombs of the Future
The Department of Justice isn’t new to worrying about 3D printed weapons. Last year they tested a 3D printed gun and the results were a little scary. So the FBI’s Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical…
Tethon 3D Shows Just How Intricate the World of 3D Printed Ceramics Is
A white buffalo exists — though it is a rare animal. It is a fitting metaphor for ceramics 3D printing in a world dominated by tecnoplastics and metal alloys. That is why Nebraska based Tethon 3D chos…
Readymake Your Own Duchamp Chess Set
Marcel Duchamp is famous for his Readymades. His piece, Fountain, a urinal signed “R.Mutt” and submitted to (and rejected by) the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in 1917, for instance…
3D Printing Accessories and the Bigger Picture
When I read about the Esun new extruder cleaning filament, I pointed to my friend excitedly and said, “Hey, Jon! Look! This stuff will clean out my 3D printer!” To which he replied, “Oh.” See, you kno…
Common-Good 3D Printing Compatibility with an Open OS As A Canny Business Strategy
Quick! What’s the biggest show-stopper impeding 3D Printing’s total dominance of The Known World? IF you said “OS compatibility”: Kudos! (Really?! You did…?? We should know you better…) If the need fo…
A Noble Challenge: 3DPRINTforAID
The 3DPRINTforAID project asks a question: ‘What it has not been used for so far is to help poor people improve their everyday lives. Why? Because we have always considered 3D printing as a means to p…
3D Systems & SME 3D Printing Curriculum
3D Systems and the SME will be collaborating to incorporate additive manufacturing into curriculums and to offer starter kits to transform shop classes.The aim is to enhance high school industrial art…
North-African Start-Up Makes Bold Strides with 3D Printing
About three months ago I reported on 3DPrint, a Tunisia based 3D print shop and service, as proof that 3D printing is taking hold in North Africa and generally is giving an opportunity for local indus…
THRE3D Invites You to Compare 3D Printers
THRE3D, previously covered on 3DPI, is both an extensive 3D printing directory and webstore for purchasing 3D printing goods. With their polished design and numerous entries, it’s clear that the site …