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…
3DPI Writer, Mike Molitch-Hou’s Top 5 3D Printing Applications of 2013
After a year of working with 3D Printing Industry, I’ve learned a great deal about 3D printing, human progress and myself as a writer. The readers have been so thoughtful and appreciative in their fee…
Wishing Our Readers a Merry Christmas
As the growing 3DPI team takes a well-earned break over the Christmas and New Year period, I challenged them, as I did last year, to send me their top 5 3D printing applications for 2013 ahead of the …
3DPI.TV – Quin: The Customizable 3D Printable Doll
Quincy Robinson and Natalie Mathis wanted to solve the problem faced by any consumer looking to purchase a new fashion doll. Because the clothing and accessories from one line don’t carry over to fit …
3DPI.TV – Sigma Labs and MTU to CoDevelop Low Cost 3D Printer
Sigma Labs, known for its PrintRite3D in-process quality control technology for 3D printing, has announced a potential partnership with Michigan Technological University to support the development of …
3DPI’s 2013 Gallery of 3D Printed Christmas Ornaments
Earlier in the holiday season Makerbot and i.materialize announced respective design contests for 3D printed Christmas ornaments. While the challenges have ended weeks ago, there remains an image pool…
Kai Parthy Gets Felty, Foamy and Porous with PORO-LAY Line of Filaments
Merry Christmas from Kai Parthy! After inventing the concrete-like LAYBRICK and wood-like LAYWOO-D3 filaments, the man has proven himself a whiz with textures and material engineering once again with …
Another ‘Home’ Metal 3D Printer: Newton 3D
3D Printing at home with metals is now truly an emergent trend. The release of an open source welder based home 3D printer this month has caused massive ripples in the open source 3D printing communit…
Sigma Labs and Michigan Technological University to Co-Develop Low-Cost 3D Metal Printer
Whoa! That came out of left field. Sigma Labs, known for its PrintRite3D in-process quality control technology for 3D printing, has just announced a potential partnership with Michigan Technological U…
Win an Anvil 3D Printer through Brahma3’s Design-in-Residence Program
Brahma is, according to Wikipedia, “not to be confused with the Supreme Cosmic Spirit in Hindu Vedānta philosophy known as Brahman, which is genderless. In Hindu tradition, the creation of Vedas is cr…
North Carolina Middle School Kids Get Bitten by the 3D Printing Bug
North Carolinas Socrates Academy students getting their hands on a CubeX Duo perfectly illustrates how access to new and cutting edge technologies is vital to producing the next generation of scientis…
3D Printing a Mummy Eagle Back from the After-life
The ability to mass-produce artifacts in ancient Egypt was staggering: hundreds of thousands of statuettes, pendants, jewels of all kinds were manufactured during almost 3 millennia of Egyptian cultur…
Quin: the Customizable 3D Printable Doll of the Future
Quincy Robinson and Natalie Mathis wanted to solve the problem faced by any consumer looking to purchase a new fashion doll. Because the clothing and accessories from one line don’t carry over to fit …