Spare Parts 3D launches new AI-powered 2D-to-3D model digitization tool
French software start-up Spare Parts 3D (SP3D) has launched the beta program of Théia, its new digital tool that can automatically create 3D models fr…
EOS enables serial production with the new M 290 1kW metal 3D printer
Munich-based 3D printer manufacturer EOS has announced the launch of the EOS M 290 1kW laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) 3D printer. An upgraded ve…
AM Forum Berlin 2024 to see HP debut its new material
After announcing its partnerships with DyeMansion and Accel Digital Solutions (ADS), HP is set to exhibit 3D printed parts made from a new material tailored for its industrial 3D polymer solutions, at…
Small-scale 3D Printing Businesses Cut Themselves a Slice of the Cake
Oxfordshire in the UK isn’t exactly where one would expect a new trend to start, but this home 3D printed wedding cake topper selfie may just start the next big thing. No, not selfie wedding cake topp…
New Uncia DLP 3D Printer
The light-based 3D printing methods of Stereolithography (SL) and digital light processing (DLP) — the former uses a laser, the latter a projector — cure liquid resin layer by layer. And both are begi…
RTI International Metals Acquires 3D Metal Printing Firm
Traditional manufacturers and suppliers clearly see the value in additively manufactured parts. When a company like RTI International Metals, Inc. acquires a 3D printing company like Directed Manufac…
DNA to 3D Printed Portrait for Crime Solving, Surveillance and Art
Let’s say you walked into an art gallery in Dublin and saw your face, 3D printed in full-colour paper, up on the wall and looking back at you blankly. The uncanny feeling you experience would certainl…
MakerBot’s Thingiverse Comes To Android
MakerBot. No other 3D printing company gets quite such a harsh light shined upon it by myself. Why? In part because of MakerBot’s unique position as a brand-of-choice as part of a Brand America …
MACHINE-SERIES Makes Designer Housewares Open Source
New York-based creative agency ICOSAEDRO has released a new line of open source housewares available for download. The company, run by Italian designers Barbara Busatta and Dario Buzzini, is openly in…
Garden Designing with a 3D Printer
This story profiles one of the things I love most about the 3D printing movement. It is a movement that is truly global in scale, and as a result those of us interested in 3D printing are often scatt…
3D Systems’ Latest Acquisition? A Member of the White House
3D Systems recently created a new position (and I am not referring here to the Chief Creative Officer post). This one is for Vice President of Alliances and Partnerships. Who’d they make this position…
Arcam Metal 3D Printers Further Penetrate Aerospace
3D printing is continuing to make headway in the aerospace industry. With the production of GE’s LEAP engine fuel nozzles and the test-firing of a rocket with 3D-printed components, the technology is…
3DPI.TV – The Wolf of Wall Street Gets Some 3D Printed Assistance
Jordan Belfort, played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the recent blockbuster the Wolf of Wall Street, travels the world in his luxurious yacht, Nadine, gallivanting and carousing and, eventually sinking. In …
It is Finished — 3D Printing The Forbidden City
Last October, Leapfrog 3D printers started 3D printing China’s ‘Forbidden City’ in its entirety, in collaboration with Dutch museum De Nieuwe Kerk and the Chinese Nanjing Museum. The project was an on…
Dell Will be Selling MakerBot's 3D Printer & Scanner Range in the US from February
Following the news that Dell has placed an order for 5000 Zortrax 3D printers from the Polish manufacturer, the computer giant has also been forging a deal with MakerBot. Originally the assumption was…