Endeavor 3D integrates CO-AM software in its powerful HP printer fleet
Additive contract manufacturer Endeavor 3D has partnered with HP and Materialise to leverage the Materialise CO-AM software platform for improving its…
MTC leverages AMCM’s unique multi-laser beam shaping system
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) has acquired the AMCM M 290-2 FLX, an industrial 3D printing system from AMCM, a company affiliated with EOS…
American companies to make and sell NASA’s GRX-810 superalloy
NASA, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has announced that it has licensed its GRX-810 superalloy to five US-based companies. Unveiled last year, GRX-810 is an Oxide Dispersi…
Continuous Carbon Fiber 3D Printer Unveiled at SolidWorks World
When we wrote about the SolidWorks World expo – devoted to 3D modeling and its applications – last week, I mentioned that “a mysterious company called Mark Forged” would make its debut 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…