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…
Quebec Research Consortium Launches AM Project for Aerospace
2014 is seeing the aerospace industry kick its adoption of 3D printing into high gear, first with the project announcements made by America Makes and now with Canada’s Consortium for Research and Inno…
Rapid Prototyping with Sand Sets a New 3D printed Paradigm for an Indiana Pattern-maker
Pattern makers are often an unwelcome dose of reality for their customers. Their role is to look at your product design, listen to your specifications and plan out the easiest and most cost effective …
An In-Depth View of What People do With 3D Printers, by Yeggi
Data, data, data: when a new social phenomenon begins to take hold, data on its users’ habits is extremely valuable as it can help companies who are in — or plan on entering — the market to plan…
Deloitte Takes 3D Printing Seriously with a New Discovery Centre Set Up
When a company like Deloitte dedicates an entire “Discovery Centre” to you, you know you are big. That is true whether you are a multinational company, an investment fund or even a Nation, since Deloi…
SIMBIO Centre Scientists Get Down and (not) Dirty with 3D Printed Soil
Scientists at Abertay University have found a way, with 3D printing, to study soil without getting their hands dirty. The abundance of life in soils can stagger the mind just as quickly as contemplati…
3DPI.TV – With 3D printing anyone can 'use The Force'
An NYU student at the Interactive Telecommunications Program has hacked The Force. Until now, we thought that only people with very high concentrations of Midichlorians in their blood were capable of …
3DPI.TV – NASA's Goddard Center & Space Applications of 3D Printing
You may hear about some of the more game changing developments occurring at NASA with regards to 3D printing, such as the SpiderFab project, the 3D-printed pizza, or the NIAC project for molecular bio…
3D Bioprinting Inching Closer to Reality in New Utrecht Biofabrication Facility
It all starts with (or continues through) education. We just reported that in the US, Makerbot is investing in creating MakerBot Innovation Centers for college students to learn about new advanced man…
The Journey of Laywoo-D3: An Interview with Wood Filament Inventor Kai Parthy
From that first mysterious video of the wood filament, Laywoo-D3, being printed, I was intrigued by the mysterious person behind the camera, writing the white text against a blue background. And when…
With a little help from 3D printing anyone can use The Force, Midichlorians not required
An NYU student at the Interactive Telecommunications Program has hacked The Force. Until now, we thought that only people with very high concentrations of Midichlorians in their blood were capable of …
3D Print Your Own Jade Rabbit Lunar Rover
UPDATE: 123D was discontinued in 2017, therefore links to the Autodesk 123D may no longer function. Autodesk may be helping its partner Makerbot in the advancement of 3D printing in education through …
NASA’s Goddard Center Pursues the Many Space Applications of 3D Printing
You may hear about some of the more game changing developments occurring at NASA with regards to 3D printing, such as the SpiderFab project, the 3D-printed pizza, or the NIAC project for molecular bio…