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 Hubs February 3D Printing Trend Report
3D Hubs has released its February Trends Report and, for a quick round-up, it looks like rapid prototyping (RP) is still the most common 3D printing application, followed closely by the Hobby/DIY cate…
Autodesk Updates Meshmixer with One Button 3D Printing (for Stratasys)
To think that a 3D modelling software as advanced and complete as Meshmixer is available for free is a wonder of modern times and it keeps getting better. Autodesk’s free all-in-one suite for 3D print…
Harvard Scientists Inch Closer to Getting 3D Printed Organs’ Blood Flowing
Research into 3D bioprinted artificial human tissues represents the promise of a future in which any part of our physical body can be replaced, starting from cartilage and soft tissues all the way to …
University of Alabama Students Develop 3D Bioprinting Extruder and Software
There are companies going after 3D bioprinting, like Organovo and Rainbow Biosciences. And there are large research bodies and graduate universities making big breakthroughs with the technology, like …
On 3D Printing Chairs: Plato vs. Cthulhu
Plato argued that a chair is once removed from reality, and any depiction of a chair is another step removed from reality. Plato thought this was pretty uncool, and used the chair as an example for al…
taulman3D’s New 3D Printing Material is a Bridge to Everywhere
taulman3D continues to add to its strong line of 3D printing materials. The material developer has just released a new, high strength Nylon co-polymer 3D printing material to testers around the world …
Trend Evolution: 3D Printing Trends (Part 1)
The Wider Context ‘The emerging potential for using 3D printing is illuminating some of the inefficiencies in mass production: the stockpiling of components and parts, the large amount of workin…
Builder 3D Printers Offers Supersize Option with Big Builder
The Dutch 3D printer company, Builder 3D Printers, decided to go big instead of go home. Taking a cue from a clamour for larger print ability, this new 3D printer arrives with a big bucket volume. Wit…
3D Printing Support for Political Peace in the Ukraine
The Times 2011 Person Of The Year was ‘The Protester.’ Never before in the history of mankind have so many mass protests, uprisings and full revolutions happened in such a short duration. …
Is Digital Knitting a form of 3D Printing? Whether yes or no it has great potential!
Within the expanding ‘maker movement’ there is a segment, a hub if you like, of creativity that uses a machine to make things following digital instructions. It just assembles a finished o…
The Best Darn 3D Printing Symbaloo West of the Mississippi
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Gladstone Students Build a Frisbee Throwing Robot with an Afinia 3D Printer
As you get to know Afinia, you learn that a lot of their customers come with stories that warm the cockles of your heart. Most recently, Afinia relayed the story of one of their Afiniacs, Glen Risber…