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…
SCADpad Uses 3D Printing to Make Living in a Parking Lot Awesome
All I need is a… 3D printer. SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) Atlanta students are taking this concept to new heights through the SCADpad project. It has been ongoing for the last 10 months a…
Researchers at Stanford Can See Your Heart and They Like What They See
From Stanford Research, Dr. Paul Wong and associates have developed a 3D printed replica of the heart that is specific to the patient in need. It is fascinating to see the detail possible with the 3D …
Toshiba's Colourful 3D Printed Anime Characters
Double Circle, an anime collaboration between electronics giant and household name Toshiba and the city of Kawasaki in the Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan can boast a following large enough to accumulate s…
Two New Branded 3D Printing Sites Aim to Fill Small Scale Manufacturing Niches
We’ve seen small-scale 3D Design and 3D Printing businesses flourish with sites like Shapeways who use an eBay- or Etsy-like model that allows users to upload their 3D models and sell them, with the m…
SimpSymm: An Algorithm to Render 3D Printing Artists Obsolete?
I remember, when I was pursuing my MFA in writing, coming across a robot poet. It was an algorithm that used some rules of syntax and grammar, choosing words randomly, to generate prose and poetry. …
3D Printed Fantasy Football Figures: Mythology! Monsters! Minotaurs! Marauders!
Sport. Often something to do with running around and balls. Hitting them with sticks (golf), hitting them with wider sticks (cricket), hitting each other to kick a ball (football), hitting each other …
Sugar High: Dutch Designer Develops His Own 3D Sugar Printer
Just as the technology behind television was invented by different individuals around the world simultaneously, the unfolding of 3D printed sugar proves that humanity has no main characters, but, inst…
Osteoid Concept Adds Ultrasound to 3D Printed Cast
The Cortex cast concept for broken upper limbs presented in mid-2013 by Jake Evill was a demonstrative example of 3D printing’s potential shown to the wider global public. Soon it may also be used as …
I Guess That’s One Way to 3D Print in Colour!
Imagine a four-year-old shouting orders in a design lab. In response to the question of how to make a 3D printer print in colour, that kid might yell, “Just colour it with markers!” This week, at the …
Life-Sized 3D-Printed Portrait Raises Mortal to Godly Status
If you’re wealthy or important enough to have a sculpture made of your likeness, Cosmo Wenman is the ideal person for the job. He’s proven himself to be an expert in digitizing and rematerializing fa…
3D Printing Produces A Golden Goose
No, this isn’t genetic engineering courtesy of Willy Wonka, a ‘gold egg’ is an egg that is scrambled in its shell and then either soft or hard boiled. And they are, actually, quite delicious. Well som…
Form Your Own Bling Ring with Jweel’s 3D Printed Jewellery
Jweel enters the 3D printing jewellery market with the ability to design from home and receive the precious metal in the mail. The products can be shipped anywhere accepting UPS delivery and is made p…