Endeavor 3D integrates CO-AM software in its powerful HP printer fleet
Additive contract manufacturer Endeavor 3D has partnered with HP and Materialise to leverage the Materialise CO-AM software platform for improving its…
Boston Micro Fabrication launches new dual-resolution, high-precision 3D printer
US-based 3D printer manufacturer Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF) has launched the microArch D1025, a new 3D printer for the production of micro-scale p…
American companies to make and sell NASA’s GRX-810 superalloy
NASA, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has announced that it has licensed its GRX-810 superalloy to five US-based companies. Unveiled last year, GRX-810 is an Oxide Dispersi…
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…
3D Systems Medical Modeling Acquisition Making a Difference
Virtual Surgical Planning (VSC), Medical Modeling’s latest development in personalized surgery solutions, made it possible for Jayla Vargas to undergo an extremely complex surgical procedure when she …
3DPHACKTORY Hosts A Why-To For Design And Business 3D Printing
On the subject of Why-To 3D print, in a media atmosphere where the many wonders and marvels of 3D printing are broadcast to a global audience almost daily, many media commentators give their explanati…
Getting Technical: BAM&DICE by 2PrintBeta
The RepRap community sounds quite optimistic about the BAM&DICE by 2PrintBeta, the open source project that has kicked off over at the world’s second favourite crowd-funding platform Indiego…
The SIMTOS Show in Seoul is a Preview of Things to Come
This past week we travelled to Seoul to have a look at the goings on at this year’s SIMTOS (Seoul International Machine Tool Show) exhibition. The show’s primary purpose is to serve the needs of the m…
How to Make 3D House Printing Accessible?
Eric Hunting has had it with the way that people are going about 3D printing buildings. He doesn’t seem pissed or anything, just a little perplexed. And, in a recent Open Manufacturing thread o…
CoKreeate Hits WonderCon 2014 and Shows Comic Fans what 3D Printing Can Do
For comic book fans, conventions are places to go to see old friends, buy things that you can’t find locally, over-pay for bad food and discover the next big thing that everyone will be talking about …
Crystal Clear: Researchers at The University of Houston Develop Easy-to-Use 3DP Method for Crystallographers
Scientists at the University of Houston have successfully developed a method for printing crystalline structures with 3D printing, original CIF files, and free software that runs on standard operating…