CADchat’s cloud-based platform offers a better way to manage product development projects
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! Software development firm CADchat has launche…
Meltio and Accufacture launch new large-scale DED 3D printer for the US market
Metal 3D printer developer Meltio and Michigan-based industrial automation firm Accufacture have introduced the Alchemist 1, a new large-scale robotic…
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…
Cobra Beer and Prototyping Other Things Impossibly Smooth
Cobra Beer has launched an interesting marketing campaign titled the Cobra Diversification Division. They already created an impossibly smooth beer, so the question was “what else is possible?…
Most Read Articles from Last Week – January 4
Many 3D Printing Patents Are Expiring Soon: Here’s A Round Up & Overview of Them I. Background 3D printing is a 30-year old technology that is currently entering the mainstream, to great fanfare. …
Restoring Art, Culture & Peace in Afghanistan with 3D Systems' Tech
Crawl back through history 1,500 years to the Valley of Bamiyan, central Afghanistan, in the 6th Century. You’d see Buddhist monks laboriously and meticulously etching two large statues of Buddha fro…
Afinia Puts Up Its Dukes to Defend Against Stratasys Lawsuit
This should make CES a bit awkward next week… After Stratasys stunned the 3D printing community by filing a lawsuit against Afinia, makers of the H-Series FFF 3D printer, at the end of last year, the …
3DPI.TV – 3D Printing with Meta SpaceGlasses
2014 is already looking like a great year for 3D creativity. Assembled 3D printers are coming out priced at under 500 euros, new low-cost high-quality 3D scanners are launching and, if that weren’t en…
3DPI.TV – Put on your Sweet, 3D Printed Chocolate Face
One of the current drivers for mass 3D printing adoption is self-replication. We have covered the subject quite a few times on 3dprintingindustry.com, from iMakr’s “Selfies at Selfridges” to home deli…
3DPI.TV – Mitsubishi Enters 3D Printing with a Metal 3D Printer
Mitsubishi Corp, noteworthy for being the largest trading company in Japan, is all set to enter the American 3D printing market this month when it will introduce and sell a metal-forming 3D printer de…
Hey, Elon and Sergey, did you see these SpaceGlasses?
Two-thousand-and-fourteen is already looking like a great year for 3D creativity. Assembled 3D printers are coming out priced at under 500 euros, new low-cost high-quality 3D scanners are launching an…
DeltaTrix 3D Printer Goes Live on Kickstarter
At the end of last year, we relayed information about Richard Tegelbeckers’s delta-style, open source, 3D printer. Without any experience of building such a thing, Richard constructed a somewhat larg…
Hyrel Quad Extruders Print Simultaneously
Hyrel 3D has already broken a lot of ground in desktop manufacturing by developing unique extruder heads capable of printing in a wide range of materials, including clay, play-doh, rubber, and …
Apple Files Patent for Printing Conductive Inks onto 3D Objects
Well, what do we have here? The day after Christmas, Apple took all of the money it got from grandma and used it to file 28 patents at the US Patent & Trademark Office. And, buried in its patent …
Manual 3D Printing — Gather3d
My first reactions to Gather3d — the brain child of designer and model maker Pierre Papet — were a confused jumble of “that’s just taking 3D printing backwards” and “how cool, I wish I’d seen this bef…