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…
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…
3D Printing Makes Stop Motion Dreams Come True for Young Filmaker
The use of 3D Printing technologies in animation and, specifically, in stop motion animation has the potential to truly change the way animators work and what they can achieve. EnvisionTEC worked with…
3DPI.TV – 3D Printing and a Surgery of a 6 Month Old Infant
3D printing is increasingly used to prep doctors for surgery. With patient-tailored models of a given surgical area, surgeons can better understand the environment that they’re getting into, ultimatel…
Toy Time Turns Tech Terrific As 3D Systems Team With Hasbro
The Rhode Island-based toy company Hasbro announced a partnership with 3D Systems on Friday to “co-develop, co-venture and deliver new immersive, creative play experiences powered by 3D printing…
3D Printed Ninjas Expose Lack of Verisimilitude of Ninja Turtles
Last weekend in Chiba, Japan, Good Smile at the annual Wonder Festival unveiled much. The hobby company is known for its figurine replications of anime and video game characters. The ninja figures bel…