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…
UltiMaker Factor 4, a new industrial 3D printer for the factory floor: Technical Specifications and Pricing
Netherlands-based 3D printer manufacturer UltiMaker has launched Factor 4, its new FDM 3D printer for the industrial market. The new 3D printer supp…
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…
Indian 3D Printing Project Is Helping the Visually Impaired to “Fittle” Right In
The amazing aspect of writing about 3D printing is that a new application is not just news but often opens the door onto a new paradigm of potential applications. Sometimes they are obvious, other tim…
Stratasys’ Big Announcement — Multi-colour, Multi-material 3D Printing with the New Objet500 Connex3
Stratasys, who since it acquired Makerbot last year, has allowed its independent subsidiary to have its head; which is probably why the new Makerbot line-up of prosumer/consumer 3D printers took prior…
Delight this Valentine’s Day with Dyo’s Customizable Designs
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, which means that we’ll be bombarding you with all sorts of 3D printed gift ideas. It’s just our way of saying, “if you’re going to celebrate a stale holiday,…
AMF Format for 3D Printing Goes Wider — Now Supported by CimatronE
Cimatron, a leading provider of CAD/CAM solutions has accounced that it’s next software release will support the Additive Manufacturing File (AMF) format — a format adopted as an industry standa…
Giant Shoebox Houses 3D Systems Cubes for Launch of Stan Smith Shoeline
Adidas may not be launching a 3D printed shoeline at the Super Bowl, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t already intimate with the technology. The company has been using 3D printing to prototype it…
Robots and Drones Use Brushed DC motors, So Why Not 3D Printers?
In the magical — or rather, technical — world of makers and 3D printing everyone can use his or her own expertise to improve on the design, functionality and inner workings of the machines. So if you …
3D-Printed Primates to Tote from Kipling
Kipling, the Belgian-based bag and luggage company, has recently released a teaser video demonstrating their upcoming 3D printed handbag called “The Monkey Madness City Jungle Shopper”. S…
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Develops Advanced AM Materials and Certification
The US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), mostly funded by the Department of Energy, started so as to provide competition with the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1952. The two labs hav…
MakerBot’s Highway to the the Mass Market Passes Through Micro Center
Stratasys owned MakerBot, a leading producer of consumer and prosumer targeted FDM 3D Printers, can already boast a high presence in brick and mortar retailers. Its machines are on sale in its own thr…
3D Printing Knows What the Heart Wants at imaterialise
imaterialise is ready to spread the love. With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, imaterialise offers a gallery of 3D printed objects and customizable design options for the romantic in all of us – a Val…
Calling All Arizona Makers!
Maketopolis is coming! You may be thinking to yourself, “What on God’s green, brown, blue, ad infinitum Earth is Maketopolis?” And you’d be reasonable to ask because, until recently, there was no such…
3D Printing Flexible Textile Structures
The DREAMS Lab at Virginia Tech together with Negar Kalantar and Alireza Borhani have collaborated on researching Flexible Textile Structures with 3D Printed fabrics. For this process they used two ad…