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…
An Idea in ABS Is Still an Idea but Every One Else Sees It Too
What a difference a little bit of properly fused and modelled ABS plastic can make. To Jason Rider, founder of Thriving Systems Design LLC, in Ft. Collins, CO, it made the difference between seeing hi…
3D Printing Turns High Schoolers into Real World Inventors with Quirky
In January, I relayed news about a community college in Sacramento that had used 3D printing to truly embody their role as a community institution by donating a 3D printer to the local hackerspace. F…
GE Garage Brings 3D Printing FabLab to Washington D.C.
Since 2012, GE has been taking its mobile fablab, the GE Garage, on a US tour, allowing public access to a range of neat Maker tools, like CNC machines, laser cutters and 3D printers. Most recently, t…
Additive Manufacturing with HSS could replace Injection Moulding and That’s a Factum
Something is going on in the field of additive manufacturing — something so big it may truly change manufacturing all the way up to mass production. Not in the future but – with the rhythms kept…
Arevo Labs want to See Makers 3D Printing with Carbon Fiber and Carbon Nanotubes
A new company has sprung out of Silicon Valley that wants you to print with carbon fiber and carbon nanotubes. No, it’s not MarkForged. The company is called Arevo Labs and they’ve just announced the …
Neri Oxman Further Pursues 3D Printing with Multi-Materials for her Latest Mythical Installation — “GEMINI”
Neri Oxman’, Architect, Designer and Professor of Media, Arts and Science at MIT, this week debuts ‘Gemini’, a two-part chaise lounge produced, in part, using 3D printing. Gemini has been conceived an…
“Print the Legend” 3DP Documentary Coming to a Computer Near You, via Netflix
The newswires started heating up last night when Netflix, the increasingly recognisable Internet TV network, announced that it has acquired the rights to the 3D printing film “Print The Legend,&…
Employee 1000 Joins Global 3D Printing Company Materialise
As milestones go within the 3D printing industry, this is a really nice one to highlight for Belgian headquartered Materialise, a company that can truly be considered one of the earliest pioneers of 3…
The Game is Slowly Changing & Valve is an Early Mover
During the past forty-some years video games yielded gigantic 3D virtual worlds, entire universes if you will. Video gaming and the concept of “gamification” (i.e. making everything more playful to do…
Kevvox Tree Support Adds a Valuable USP to its DLP 3D Printer Range
Rachel wrote, last year, about two DLP 3D printers from a company in Singapore called Kevvox. The printers seem to be ideal for small industrial purposes, especially when using their castable resin in…
New Dutch Desktop 3D Printer to Seek Funding on Kickstarter
Just when you thought the desktop 3D printer market had exhausted itself, a new 3D printer manufacturer has made its presence known. Based out of the Netherlands, like its successful predecessors Ulti…
Test Piloting 3D Printed Prototypes with eCommerce
Gerald Beranek is a product development engineer and, as the owner of Generation Y WorX, has come up with a pretty interesting way of developing his products for sale in the marketplace. After using 3…