Amazemet scaling metal 3D printing with Siemens’ Xcelerator software
Polish metal 3D printing company Amazemet has adopted industrial manufacturing firm Siemens’ Xcelerator software portfolio. The Warsaw Universit…
Formlabs launches new 3D printers Form 4 and Form 4B
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! 3D printer OEM Formlabs has launched its new desktop re…
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…
How to Tell What’s Real and What’s Fake in a 3D Printed World
Counterfeiting is expected to be a $1.7 trillion threat to world economies by 2015. 325% more counterfeit goods were confiscated from 2002 to 2012 than in the previous decade. NASA says counterfeiting…
Unboxing to Printing — the Da Vinci 1.0 3D Printer
Shane introduced 3DPI readers to the da Vinci 1.0 3D printer from XYZPrinting at the end of last year. He found plenty to be positive about then, most notably the price of USD499. Oliver Fueckert was …
Is 3D Printing and Space Travel a Match Made in… Heaven?
We are living in exciting and revolutionary times. Technologies that have been developed during the past decades are becoming mature and opening up to more and more people. This time, however, we are …
Paul Nylander’s World of 3D Printed Math Art
Gee! We humans sure are getting smart! Or, at the very least, our software is. With powerful minds and powerful programs, a new category of art, dubbed Math Art, has sprung up all over the Internet. …
EFI CEO Looking at the Big Picture for 3D Printing
EFI Has made itself known for its UV inkjet inks and its huge, wide format 2D printers, as well as its 2D printer productivity software. In a recent interview outlining the company’s Q4 profits,…
RigidBot 3D Printer Delivers Simplicity and Size at a Low Price
At the 3D Printer World Expo this past weekend, I was introduced to a RepRap-style 3D printer that I haven’t come across in person before, the RigidBot from invent-A-part. The RigidBot exploded …
Good News Out of Florida! Mcor Technologies Signs ALLAXIS As 3DP Reseller
Mcor Technologies has signed ALLAXIS 3D Printers as its newest authorized reseller in Florida. Mcor is the manufacturer of the only line of desktop paper-based 3D printers in the world and recently wo…
Riton Biomaterials Orthodontal 3D Printing Products
Riton Biomaterial Co., Ltd., China is a manufacturer that specialises in the development, production and marketing of orthodontic biomaterials and related dental equipment. The company offers the cust…
The Precious Project Moves Closer to Refined 3D Printed Jewellery
Last November, we covered a story about a broad UK initiative to develop 3D printing for the jewellery industry. The Precious Project is charged by funds from the UK government’s Department for Busine…
Happy Chinese Year of the (Colourful) 3D Printed Horse — from Stratasys
Astrological predictions are often a bit too approximate for accurate predictions, even when they are based on the Chinese millenary culture. However they are a great subject for conversation and, app…
Cleveland Golf Tees Off with EnvisionTEC 3D Printers
Cleveland Golf, maker of replica golf clubs since 1979, has invested in additive manufacturing and its machine of choice happens to be an ULTRA 3DP from EnvisionTEC. Cleveland Golf needed a dependable…
MakerBot Slashes Price of Its Digitizer 3D Scanner
When an OEM starts selling off its inventory at a drastically reduced RRP, even via large resellers, such as the case here, it usually means one of two things. Either it’s not competing well in the ma…