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…
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…
The Wolf of Wall Street Gets Some 3D Printed Assistance
I haven’t seen the Wolf of Wall Street yet. When I found out that there wasn’t going to be an actual stock trading wolf in it, I decided to pass. Now that I know that 3D printing was invol…
Ultimaker GB Launches 3D Printing Schools Initiative
Ultimaker has been working with education institutions in the UK and will launch into the Education sector. The move will continue a wave of 3D printing in the education system as academics move to ro…