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 Digital Sculpting Workshop Gets Year 5’s Excited
This is an uplifting story with many strands that point to the positives of community engagement, productive networking, engaged education, designing in 3D, and, of course, a spot of 3D printing. The …
New Low-Friction 3D Printing Filament Material for Bearings and Moving Parts
Plastic manufacturer Igus has introduced its new tribological, or low friction, Iglide Tribo-Filament that can be used for custom parts and bearings that traditionally could not be made with a 3D prin…
3D Printer Networks, 3D Printing Standards — Now 3D Printer Network Standards
There have been a few stories in recent weeks about 3D printer networking solutions. Most recently, we heard about AstroPrint, a project that launched on Kickstarter with a way to get your printer pri…
Arius Technology Signs Licensing Agreement with Canadian Government
3D scanning is becoming invaluable when it comes to preserving historical artifacts. So, it pays for 3D scanning companies to make friends in the world of restoration. This is precisely what Arius Tec…
Pinup 2014 Design & 3D Printing Competition
Pinup 2014 is hosting a free competition for students and young professionals, offering a chance for up to three images from their studio, 3D printed or un-built work in a chance to receive wide publi…
3DPI.TV – IBM & SwissLitho Introduce Nanoscale Tech
IBM has developed a nano scale process that is capable of chiselling a 3-dimensional pattern into pliable polymer as small as ten nanometers wide. While it’s not technically 3D printing — rather 3D ca…
Buy a 3D House Printer for €12,000, Print a House
Want to make headlines? After all of the news surrounding the 3D printed Canal House in the Netherlands, the concrete homes printed in 24 hours in China, or the Minnesotan printing his own home in his…
The Great Fredini Unveils 3D Printed Coney Island
This past Sunday saw the opening of an installation at Coney Island in New York long awaited by fans and scans of the Great Fredini. After launching a Kickstarter campaign almost a year ago, Fred Kahl…
The 3D Fruit Printer and the Raspberry That Tasted Like a Strawberry
This weekend, Cambridge firm Dovetailed unveiled its unique approach to 3D food printing. Using the molecular gastronomic technique of spherification, the firm is developing a method for 3D fruit pri…
Google a 3D Printer for Your Apple Gossip
In my personal life, I try not to engage in gossip because so much of it is speculative and not actually based on concrete evidence. But the tech world loves rumours to the creepy extent that there’s …
Sued and Sacked: Has The 3D Printing IP Storm Begun?
Respecting Intellectual Property (IP), whether traditional, Creative Commons, open source or otherwise, is important. For one thing, people who create often make little money. There is a cruel irony t…
D3D’s Autolift Prevents AutoLeaking
The D3D team is back on Kickstarter with another 3D printing innovation. Whilst developing the idea for their previous project the team discovered that rigid mounted hot ends could create quality prin…