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…
The 3D Printed Micro-house Of The Future. Today.
We humans are productive critters. Indeed the most productive trait of our species seems to be reproduction. There are now more than seven billion of us habiting this beautiful, but increasingly small…
MakerBot Launches Exquisite Houseware Collection
The MakerBot Retail Store in New York City has launched ‘Cloud Collection,’ a decorative housewares line by the Francis Bitonti Studio that can be purchased digitally, downloaded and 3D pr…
RP Marketplace Provides Online Conduit to Industrial RP Services
There has been a number of 3D printing service marketplaces springing up over the past year or so. Some, such as Additer, focus specifically on service providers with desktop, consumer-grade 3D print…
Say Yes to Drugs: DIA to Address 3D Printing in Healthcare Session
The Drug Information Association will hold its annual conference in San Diego on June 17th 2014 and 3D printing will be a hotbed issue addressed. Leaders of the DIA acknowledge that the relatively new…
This May, Taiwan Will Launch its Own 3D Printing Program
Not long after Taiwan held the first symposium of its Additive Manufacturing of Taiwan (AMAT) institute, the country’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has announced in a recent report …
Autodesk & 3D Hubs Collaborate to Make 3D Design & Print More Accessible and Local
When I spoke with Bram de Zwart of 3D Hubs in New York last week, he told me that they had been working on a new API to connect creators and users of 3D content to its global network of 3D printers an…
Cambrian Genomics 3D Printing DNA — Sets its Sights on Space Dinosaurs
It is a well-known fact that everything is better when you add lasers, and apparently lasers make 3D printing DNA hover dangerously close to what you would call affordable thanks to San Francisco biot…
The Micro 3D Printers' Massive Million Dollar Crowdfunding Campaign
M3D’s Kickstarter for their Micro 3D printer surpassed it’s USD$50,000 goal in a phenomenal 11 minutes. Why? For one the price, at USD$199 for early birds and a regular price of $299. For …
Project Ara to Host Developers Conference for 3D-Printed Smartphone Parts
As Rachel alluded to in her Inside 3DP NYC review, Project Ara, a collaborative megaproject between Google and 3D Systems, has been making progress. The modular smart phone would be the first of its k…
3D Printing Transforms Ordinary Items Into Extraordinary Pieces of Design
Some folks will complain about the unfinished, monochromatic aesthetic of objects made by many desktop 3D printers. With a little creativity, however, this aesthetic can be used to its advantage. TAKT…
XYZprinting Plans to Add 3D Scanning to daVinci 3D Printers
I’ll admit that I’m not the best at getting new release info out of 3D printer manufacturers. Usually, that’s because I’m tactless and say, “Hey, you got a new printer comin’ out or what?” This time,…
3D Printing The 10 Circles of Life
The creativity and innovation of digital art has long inspired me. Traditionally, my artistic pursuits have seen me print on various mediums including glass, plexiglass, metal and fabric and my work c…