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…
MTC leverages AMCM’s unique multi-laser beam shaping system
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) has acquired the AMCM M 290-2 FLX, an industrial 3D printing system from AMCM, a company affiliated with EOS…
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…
Additive Manufacturing Could Take the Injection Moulding Market, Says HSS Inventor Neil Hopkinson
One of the aspects I love the most about the 3D printing industry is that it is transforming boring, complex, manufacturing machines into something amazing and fascinating. New additive manufacturing …
iHive3D.com Prepares for Launch with 3D Printing Video Contest
Think you have what it takes to teach the world how to 3D print? You now have your chance to prove it and win an Infinity3D Printer from Vancouver based Revolution Printers in the process. To prepare …
MakerJuice Tries to Undercut FormLabs with 3D Printing Resins
There are indications that 2014 will see a similar explosion of light-based (direct light processing and stereolithography) 3D printers that 2012 and 2013 saw with FDM/FFF machines. After FormLabs ki…
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…