Amazemet scaling metal 3D printing with Siemens’ Xcelerator software
Polish metal 3D printing company Amazemet has adopted industrial manufacturing firm Siemens’ Xcelerator software portfolio. The Warsaw Universit…
Formlabs launches new 3D printers Form 4 and Form 4B
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! 3D printer OEM Formlabs has launched its new desktop re…
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 Printing Piracy Keeps Hitting 3DP Designers
The most discussed concerns surrounding IP and 3D printing come from manufacturers, mostly because they have the loudest voices in the room. The piracy of physical objects could stand to cost huge sum…
Could the Braille OwnFone Become a Killer App for 3D Printing?
Ever since Google presented Project Ara in collaboration with 3D Systems I have started to think about what a killer app for 3D printing could look like and how it will probably be linked to mobile co…
Stunning Sights: 3D Printing Improves Rig for Time Lapse Photography
Doug Urquhart knows a beautiful world, a stunning perception he shares with time-lapse photography, and 3D printing makes his vision appear with newfound ease. After tinkering and experimenting with 3…
The Return of the Ferrari 312P
The refurbishment of classic racing car engines is extremely time-consuming and costly. Needless to say it is also very challenging technically. But what used to take a year can now be done in weeks t…
3DLT & PieceMaker: In-store 3D Printing
John Hauer and the 3DLT team have a head for business. We have seen manifold 3D printing marketplaces emerge recently, some better than others. The ones doing well aren’t necessarily the best. They ar…
Mamba3D Printer Has Just 6 Days to Go on Kickstarter
In March of this year, we covered the Mamba3D printer. Back then, we weren’t really able to see the printer in all of its glory, as the company behind it, MyMatics, prepared for its Kickstarter launch…
Thousand Hand Bodhisattva Reincarnated with 3D Printing in China
3D scanning and 3D printing technology have begun to play an extremely important role in preserving historical artefacts and my guess is that it won’t stop any time soon. In China, they’re using the t…
MatterHackers Release 1st MatterControl Update
MatterHackers just released the first update for its simple to use 3D printing management software MatterControl. Among the multiple new features is the ability to effortlessly turn 2D images into 3D …
Sculptify’s FLEX Flees Filament in Favour of Pellets
There’s an image in the mind of most people introduced to desktop 3D printing of a long tube of plastic filament going into one end of a printer and coming out as a 3D object at the other. Sculptify, …
Modio Is Going to Make 3D Printable Action Figures Really “App-en”
It took me a while to write this article because I was trying to figure out all the implications that this new App could have and it was not easy. I know I tend to get carried away with the implicatio…
XYZ’s Da Vinci 3D Printer Jailbroken to Run Open Source Firmware (& Any Filament)
Last week Michael wrote a very interesting piece about the multibillion dollar question on everyone’s mind: how to deal with IP protection in the age of downloadable objects. The issue is also relevan…
Free Form 3D Metal Printer Yields Giant 3D Printed Bench
If you had a robot arm capable of 3D printing long strands of metal, what’s the first thing you would make? (That’s a serious question that you can answer in the comments below.) It looks like Joris L…