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…
GE’s New 3D Printing Production Quest Winners Show Much More than Just Better Products
The winners in GE’s latest additive manufacturing contest, Martin Leuterer from EOS, Rob Snoejis from LayerWise and Bernhard Tabernig from PLANSEE, took home $50,000 for helping GE find new ways to pr…
Cheaper 3D Printing Filament: Caesar The Opportunity
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury expensive 3D printer filaments, not to praise them. The evil that expensive 3D printer filaments do lives after them; The good is oft int…
Breakthrough: Digital Light Processing For Metals
Tests have shown that the Digital Light Processing (DLP) based technology developed by the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and its partners, for the 3D printing of ceramic materials ca…
3D Printed Lithophanes Light Up Milan Design Week
3D printing has become a technology that pairs perfectly with lighting decor. Through tricks of geometry, texture and colour, artists have been able to 3D print lamps and light covers that take quite …
First Reports on Local Motors' 3D Printed Car
Local Motors and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have begun trials on their 3D printed car today and, while not entirely successful, they’ve produced some interesting results. The partners first …
Take a WonderLuk at This Online Destination for Made-to-Order 3D Printed Fashion
Emerging out of stealth mode last week, London-based start-up WonderLuk has launched in public beta as an online retail outlet offering 3D printed fashion, jewellery and accessories — specifically tar…
Interview with Brian Garret at 3D Hubs
Last week, 3D Hubs released its April’s 3D Printing Trend Report. The highlight of the report is almost certainly the building momentum behind 3D Hubs, in the last month alone more than 1000 mor…
Solid Concepts Helped Scanadu 3D Print a Working Tricorder (and Secure $12M in Financing)
You know it, we know it: the 3D printer is the forefather of the replicator, not MakerBot’s Replicator but Star Trek’s replicator, the incredible machine on the Enterprise’s deck that could compress e…
Why-to 3D print:
To best explore the reasons for why anyone does anything, I developed a format called the “why-to”. I assembled a number of why-to guides, devoted to a variety of activities, into a single collection…
3D Printed Robot Gets Mad, Confused, Sleepy and Parties!
Queen’s University’s School of Computing in Ontario, Canada seems like one of the funnest places to earn a degree. Every year, students put on an expo titled Creative Computing: Arts, Games, and Resea…
Gillette Files Patent to 3D Print Functional Razor Blades
As 3DPI editor Rachel Park, a long-time commentator on the 3D printing industry, tells me, Gillette was one of the earliest consumer company’s to use 3D printing technology. Since the 90’s, the compan…
Studio Fathom Talks 3D Scanning, Replicating and Repairing Ancient Artifacts using 3D Printing
Studio Fathom commemorated the 151st anniversary of the discovery of The Winged Victory of Samothrace with a stunningly detailed replica 3D printed using the Objet500 Connex3. They also used the oppor…