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…
FormLabs Offers Free Webinar Series Starting Monday
If, like me, you’re thinking about getting a Form1 3D printer for your home or office, but haven’t quite made up your mind, FormLabs is launching a short webinar series to show you around …
Adafruit Industries Wants to Help you to Make your own 3D Printed Cyber-Punk Spikes!
Adafruit contributor Becky Stern’s latest how-to guide shows us how to make retro-futuristic cyberpunk spikes that look like they would fit right in on costumes from Blade Runner. She’s taken to calli…
3D Printing Project Gives Smartphone Virtual Reality Vision
Maybe it is because it is the first taste of real wearable technology we are going to get, maybe it is because the Oculus Rift team is an example of extremely successful and practical, forward thinkin…
3D Printing with Osteofab will Give Freedom Back to Somali Woman
I just love to write these articles. I love it not only because it is another demonstration of how much good 3D printing technologies can already do all over the world but also because it shows a clea…
3DPI.TV – Amazon Opens 3D Printed Product Marketplace
There are those who have suggested that at some point 3D printing might challenge Amazon’s business by allowing customers to produce products directly in their homes almost instantly. The company’s C…
Good News for Concert Halls and Submarines: Duke Engineers Demonstrate 3D Printed Acoustic Cloaking
Duke engineers demonstrated acoustic cloaking through rigorous research and metamaterials. The designers set out to create a 3 dimensional form that would essentially slow sound waves thereby giving t…
From Flinstones to Jetsons: Family Prosthetic Business Enters 21st Century with 3D Printing
This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Bill and Brian Layman, the father and son team behind Innovative Orthotics and Prosthetics, their family-run prosthetics business. Bill has been in the b…
EOS Releases Two Medical Grade Materials for 3D Metal Printing
Manufacturer of 3D metal printers EOS is further expanding its materials portfolio and, consequently, expanding the reach of 3D printing into more and more aspects of our lives. With the company’s ne…
Soluble Support Material Supports Creation of Hollow Composite Parts
As it turns out, soluble support materials for FDM/FFF 3D printing may offer more uses than just support. Customers of Stratasys have been utilizing their machines to take advantage of the unique prop…
Additively Piecing Together the Pieces of the Additive Puzzle
Say you are a company that is looking into getting a new prototype done. You may – or may not – be an additive manufacturing early adopter. Perhaps you do not have the personnel and means…
Will the HP 3D Printing Talk Prove to be White Noise or Game Changing?
Hewlett-Packard (HP) continues to tease investors and other 3D printing vendors, not to mention the press, about its plans to enter the 3D printing market. On Tuesday last, HP’s Chief Executive Meg Wh…
Escaping Piranesi’s Prisons of the Mind by 3D Printing an Impossible Exhibition
The news is that Diverse Maniere: Piranesi, Fantasy and Excess, an exhibit on Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s work, can now be visited in London, at the Sir John Soane’s Museum, until May 31st. The Itali…