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…
UltiMaker Factor 4, a new industrial 3D printer for the factory floor: Technical Specifications and Pricing
Netherlands-based 3D printer manufacturer UltiMaker has launched Factor 4, its new FDM 3D printer for the industrial market. The new 3D printer supp…
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 Printed Device to Track and Treat Heart Disease
The futurists were right! Soon, we will be able to monitor the various biological systems that make up our bodies, tracking the health of various organs and preventing illnesses like precogs catching …
Virginia Tech Hosts Student Competition to Create 3D Printed Aircraft and Ground Vehicles
Virginia Tech recently announced the Additive Manufacturing Grand Challenge where students will be encouraged to come up with new designs for remote piloted – they mean drones, but I guess they …
3D Printed Adapter To Turn Glasses Into Google Glass
Google Glass is a device that is anticipated to be a success from its launch later this year. Currently projected to be priced at USD$1500 Google Glass will come in a variety of colours: Charcoal, tan…
Is This Furniture 3D Printed or 3D Assembled?
In October of last year, I covered, with a Seussian veneer, the story of a company that plans to print furniture in ways that will make you grin and drumblurnishure. Just kidding. I’m not going to giv…
Force Sensing Resistors Make for Auto Bed Levelling for 3D Printers
Johann Rocholl, inventor of the deltabot-style RepRap, is continually seeking to upgrade the designs for his 3D printers, when he’s not busy working at Google that is. After successfully building the …
3DPI.TV – Net Artist Lia Explores the Parameters of 3D Printing
Most of us are content with 3D printing’s amazing ability to convert digital models into 3D objects, amazed at the transformation from the virtual to the real. If you’re a net artist, thou…
CAD Users Don’t Really Use 3D Printing, But They Plan To
A recent survey about CAD software conducted by telecom research firm Business Advantage Group offers a bit of insight about how 3D printing technology is (or is not) utilized by CAD software users. …
Mcor Goes to Turkey with Teknodizayn
Manufacturer of the world’s only 3D paper printers is gradually expanding its influence across the globe, landing a reseller in Turkey. Mcor, which until last year maintained most of its network in E…
Photonic Firm Zecotek Enters 3D Printing Market
Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX-V: ZMS; Frankfurt: W1I) is among the growing number of companies currently outside of the 3D printing industry looking to get into the middle of it. While it would seem na…
CoKreeate’s Cool 3D Printed Comic Book Cover
Los Angeles based 3D scan and print service CoKreeate might have just made the next gimmick cover that comic fans will say that they hate but will still buy anyway. Brimstone and the Borderhounds #9 g…
Modla Uses 3D Printing to Blend Artistic Vision and Brand Communication in Latest Work
I found out about Modla’s existence a few months ago, when they participated at TheOtherArt Fair. I was particularly impressed by a silver model of an old race car “twisting” and transforming into a n…
3D Printed Marketing Sends Clients Tiny Chairs
‘As a high-powered product designer and/or marketing executive, I often find myself wanting something more than a glossy brochure outlining my latest product. Brochures are just so flat and dull, when…