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…
Authentise Makes 3D Print Streaming More Secure with Guardtime Partnership
In anticipation of the possible need for Intellectual Property protection in the 3D printing era, Authentise has partnered with Guardtime, the inventor of Keyless Signature Infrastructure. The new pa…
Courting the Materials Market
There is a slight quandary for the producers of products that require peripherals. Is it better to open the market to those peripherals or conduct a more closed approach? The former allows the potenti…
French 3D Printer Manufacturer Groupe Gorgé Acquires its Own Materials Firm
Groupe Gorgé has begun building up its portfolio in the effort to transform itself into a 3D printing powerhouse. After the acquisition of Prodways, French manufacturer of a unique LED digital light …
Sky Tech’s Finishing Box Is a New Beginning for Desktop 3D Printing
When speaking with consumer 3D printing industry experts, artists and experimenters, one thing that many indicate as a hurdle that has to be overcome in order to truly bring 3D printing to the masses …
NASA is 3D Scanning on Mars and 3D Printing on Earth
“If this species is to survive indefinitely we need to become a multi-planet species. We need to go to Mars, and Mars is a stepping-stone to other solar systems.” – Charles Bolden, A…
It All Pours Out: Missouri High School Seniors Solve Ketchup’s First Drop with 3D Printing
These science experiments in high school sound a lot more fascinating than the titration experiments I endured extensively. Two students, Tyler Richards and Jonathan Thompson, took their scientific me…
Portugal is About to Get Its First 3D Print Shop, and It’s Eco Too
Portuguese design and product engineering company Weproductise is about to open the very first 3D printing store in Ponte de Lima, near Braga, in the North of Portugal, close the border with Spain. Fo…
Free Your 3D Printer from Slicers and Print with Project Silkworm
Skip your Gcode slicer completely and print directly from Rhino3D. Why? Because you’ll be freed from the constraints of quadratic code to experience the organic nature of silkworm! Project Silkworm is…
The City of Portland Oregon Faces Fiscal Crisis Due to Purchase of a 3D Printer
Last week at a live unveiling event for the city’s new 3D printer in front of Portland’s iconic Hawthorne bridge brought shocking details about how the Mayor of Portland has been acquiring city …
Lehigh University Students Learn About Small Scale Manufacturing With 3D Printing
A little while back Stratasys released a White Paper on injection moulding using its Objet line of printers to 3D print the moulds. The professors at Lehigh University decided to have their students p…
High Powered Lens Aids 3D Printed Disease Detection
Dr. Steve Lee, at the Australian National University (ANU) Research School of Engineering, along with Dr. Tri Phan, of Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research, have developed a novel method for …
MIT Will Teach You About 3D Printing in a 5-Day Summer Course
Say you are an architecture, engineering or science professional. Chances are you have recently heard about the wonders of Additive Manufacturing (aka 3D printing) technologies and what they can do fo…