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…
Ion Core & 3D Printing Stood Strong in Liverpool at Opening of International Festival of Business 2014
Britain’s biggest business event for more than 50 years opened in Liverpool last week, and is taking place at the British Business Embassy as part of a Government attempt to showcase UK business and i…
Numbers Can’t Lie: What Does Robo3D Consumer Survey Tell Us?
The results are in thanks to Robo3D’s 3D Printer Consumer Survey and it appears the private sector ought to have the growth most market analysts predict. While most of the numbers reflect a common sen…
Ultimaker Releases Ultimate 3D Printable World Cup Mascots on YouMagine Network
Ok, promise, this is the last one on the World Cup (maybe!) — but it really is worth it: Ultimaker has just released some new designs on its 3D model network YouMagine — designs for the mascots of t…
A Modern Myth: the Continuum of Prêt-à-Porter 3D Printed Shoes
At 3DPI we spend a lot of time asking ourselves which is going to be the one true killer app for consumer 3D printing. World Cup paraphernalia? Modular smartphones? Toys? For most women the point is m…
Today’s 3D Printeers Will be Tomorrow’s Engineers
How many times have we said that those who stand to truly benefit from an early adoption and learning of 3D printing technologies are today’s children, tomorrow’s professionals? And how many times hav…
3D Printing Leaps Forward: Bigger, Faster, and Stronger with the Creatr High Speed 3D Printer
Time is money. Leapfrog, a Netherland-based 3D Printing company, understands the value of helping customers conserve their time and has added a high-speed printer to its lineup. The Creatr HS 3D Print…
Mobile Platforms For 3D Printing On-the-Fly from Threeding
3D printing markeplace Threeding.com recently launched a mobile version of its website and now has added a Google Andriod App, to its platform range, in turn this will soon be joined by an Apple iOS A…
German RepRap’s New 1mm Extruder
German RepRap is now offering a 3D printer extruder that reduces the time taken to print an object to just 60% of the time taken with a standard 0.5mm extruder. The company iterates that its new one m…
A Voxel Comes True with 3D Printing for Industrial Design Students in Queretaro, Mexico
As much as 3D printing a PSP, Xbox controller or a photo camera may not be original designs, when you are able to replicate them digitally to create a 3D printable file you feel that now they are, in …
Afinia Reduces the Price of its H-Series Desktop 3D Printer
Afinia 3D, a US supplier of desktop 3D printers, has just announced that it is reducing the price of its award-winning H-Series 3D Printer by 19%, to $1,299USD. The price-drop is effective immediately…
DSM Moving Toward DLP with 365 nm ProtoGen Clear Resin
Laser-based stereolithography (SLA) was the first 3D printing process invented and it is still widely used. DLP (digital light processing), however, is a strong competitor for industrial additive manu…
Real World Application in Education
For this weekend we’re sharing you this nice example of using 3D Printing in education. William Penn Charter School has a long-standing partnership with Widener Memorial School, a public school …