CADchat’s cloud-based platform offers a better way to manage product development projects
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! Software development firm CADchat has launche…
Meltio and Accufacture launch new large-scale DED 3D printer for the US market
Metal 3D printer developer Meltio and Michigan-based industrial automation firm Accufacture have introduced the Alchemist 1, a new large-scale robotic…
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 Heads Up Stream on Steve Ryan’s Yacht
I’m often surprised by the projects that people pursue with their desktop 3D printers. Steve Ryan, for instance, uses his consumer device to design and build yachts. This isn’t an Oak Ridge National …
Bright Minds of Students Made Brighter with 3D Printing at TCT Show 2014
In what has now become a tradition for the TCT Show + Personalize, TCT Bright Minds UK will be returning to the UK-based 3D printing show. A glass-walled classroom will again be set up in the middle …
CoCoRo: A Swarm of 3D Printed Robots to Safeguard the Oceans
The Collective Cognitive Robots (CoCoRo) are a group of 40 mini-submarine robots that can work together to perform complex tasks. They are based on the concept of “swarm robotics”, which says th…
Books and Kimchi…and Filament
It is always enjoyable sitting down with people who have the same level of enthusiasm for a subject as you do. Such was my luck yesterday when I had the opportunity to discuss 3D printing’s future wi…
NK Gallery Exhibit GNI-RI by Nick Ervinck Twists Minds with Distorted 3D Printed Forms
The NK Gallery in Antwerp now exhibits GNI-RI with forms ripe with profundity by Belgium artist Nick Ervinck. Produced using 3D printing, the forms take shape as an art that reveals as much about the …
Out of 1,000 Americans, ⅓ Would Purchase a 3D Printer for the Home
According to a recent report conducted by OnePoll and financed by CEL, makers of the Robox 3D printer, one in three Americans are ready to have a 3D printer in their own home. My post-secondary educat…
Community Maker Space The Exploratory Hosts 3D Printing Class for Kids
Culver City’s The Exploratory has announced a children’s class for 3D character creation and 3D printing. But that’s just one of the many great educational classes and programs available for kid…
If the Masses Won’t Go to 3D Printing, Tridi Mx Will Go to the Masses
When we speak with “venture retailers”, who have already made the jump into personalized fabrication and opened a 3D print shop, two of the first issues that arise are: “3D printing education is strat…
Versoteq Expands the 3D Printed Customizables Marketplace
Versoteq is a Finnish company that, in addition to offering spare part replacement services with 3D scanning and 3D printing, allows users to customize 3D printed items for purchase. Being new, their …
Integrate 3D Printing in Any Business with df3d’s Cloudf3d Printing Platform
The consumer 3D printing scenario is fragmented at best. This is absolutely normal for an industry that is still in its infancy. With 3D printing, it may remain ‘normal’ even further down …
3D Systems Begins Shipping Micro-SLA 3D Printer
After the onslaught of releases made by 3D Systems at Euromold at the end of last year and CES at the beginning of this year, there’s likely to be a great deal of anticipation about when their n…
Dreaming of A New Italian Renaissance with the Galileo 3D Printer
Italy was stuck in a dark age of bad government, corruption and widespread ignorance that was making its social and economic structure obsolete. Then a new enthusiasm for all that is culture, creativi…