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…
Lewis Jewelers 3D Prints its Own Post-Tornado Reconstruction
The American Midwest is notorious for its devastating tornadoes, possibly made even worse in recent years due to extreme weather arguably brought on by climate change. And, though we might associate d…
Dutch Artist Offers 3D Model Repair Services for 3D Printing
Maybe he was inspired by my lack of 3D model repair skills, as detailed in my quest to 3D print a drag queen. Or, more likely, artist Eric van Straaten simply realized that, after six years of prepari…
3D Scanning and 3D Printing to Understand the Physics of Bourges Cathedral
So, you’re sitting in an ancient church, let’s say the Bourges Cathedral in France. You’re admiring the historical richness of the stained glass depicting the Last Judgment, the spandrels featuring ta…
UK Represented By Ion Core and the Zinter PRO 3D Printer In The Third Industrial Olympiad
In the 18th century a small collection of some 6000 islands in the northern proximity of the Atlantic ocean was the unlikely location of possibly human history’s most important first technologic…
Net Artist Lia Explores the Parameters of 3D Printing with Filament Art
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, tho…
How a Medical Clinic in the Bolivian Rainforest Might Use 3D Printing
Since I ran my family’s medical clinic, Centro Medico Humberto Parra, in 2007, my life has taken a very strange journey. I had no idea that I’d end up writing about 3D printing as I do today. I was so…
Époisses, Chardonnay and a Spiderbot Delta 3D Printer, S'il Vous Plaît
I’m in the market for a 3D printer. However, like all journalists (and a certain John Snow), I don’t really know much about anything. So, my selection process involved following advice from my mechan…
Ancient Chinese Woodblock Printing Influences a New & Exciting Bioprinting Technique
Researchers at the Houston Methodist Research Institute have potentially developed a way to 3D print living cell tissue without using unreliable inkjet style printing techniques. By applying the basic…
D3D's New RUGGED-HPX 3D Printer Extruder Line
The D3D team is returning to crowd funding platform Kickstarter with a strong re-engineered extruder line enhanced by the feedback from their former funding campaign. The team cite that their research…
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of 3D Printing with Fake Russian Money
Maxim Kashirskiy has long been interested in the concept of money, saying (with the help of Google Translate), “I always liked the well-developed prints with a lot of fine lines and elements. Purely f…
3D Printing Brings Animatronic Axl to Life
A few weeks ago, we posted a video of James Brennan-Craddock’s animatronic bird, so beautifully crafted and realistic that it belongs in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Well, Dr. Brennan-Craddock…
Windform Material Goes Nautical with a 3D Printed Yacht (Model)
Windform is the additive manufacturing (AM) material that made its presence most known with the release of the Italian Electric Superbike Energica from CRP Group. But the reinforced Polyamide based ma…