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…
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…
3D Prints From 2D Photos Of A Moving Subject
When Mark Dahmke found that Autodesk’s otherwise excellent 2D-to-3D app 123D Catch was limited outside of his needs to digitally capture a moving subject – his cute cats – he decided to pursue h…
Uformit Shows the Future of Design Looks Like… U
One word that we are starting to hear more often and that we are likely to hear much more in the future is “parametric”, especially with respect to anything related to design software and the individu…
S3D Innovations Reduces, Recycles and Closes the Loop with New Thermoplastic FilaSoy
S3D Innovations brings soy to the filament table and plans to become a permanent fixture in the industry after winning the top prize in the 2014 Student Soybean Product Innovation Contest sponsored by…
Endur is a New 3D Printing Polypropylene Material From Stratasys
Stratasys has introduced an innovative new material to their range of industrial feedstock. The material is called Endur, and is being positioned as an advanced simulated polypropylene material, which…
Fuel 3D Returns to Medical Imaging with $1.1 Million Contract
You may know Fuel 3D Technologies Ltd. for its low-cost, high resolution handheld 3D scanner that blew up on Kickstarter last year. What you may not have known is that Fuel 3D actually began as a com…
3D Systems' Sense 3D Scanner Adds Mac OS Compatibility
To be honest, when I wrote about the Sense handheld scanner from 3D Systems last year, I was a little disappointed that it could only be used with PCs. Though the 3D scanner was only $399 (substantia…
Dragonbite 3D Printed Stylus Aids Pens in Digital Design
When I first read the email from Dinos Costanti about the work that he and his partner, Vangelis Hadjiloizou, were doing with their studio Lab02, I confused them for the Vangelis, Evangelos Odysseas P…
Who Will Hold the Coveted Title of Most 3D Printers Operating in Unison?
A rivalry ensues! Just as a Texas University claims the Guinness World Record for the most 3D printers to run simultaneously, Colorado-based Aleph Objects is in the process of breaking that record, as…
Tiles 3D Print CAD: Simply The Best
3D printing and lego-style construction bricks are a pertinent, increasingly applied combination. IKOS, the 3D printed spherical building block enterprise, is not the only such project that is current…