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…
Most Read Articles from Last Week – December 21
Top 10 Personal 3D Printers of 2013 by Christopher Barnatt Last week Christopher Barnatt from ExplainingTheFuture.com shared his list of Top 10 Consumer Grade 3D Printers of the year 2013. Chri…
3DPI.TV – The Cavity Skateboard 3D Printed in One Single Piece
Most skateboard decks today are made up of about seven layers of wood, depending on the quality, glued together and compressed in a vice-like mould. Using design tools Rhino and Grasshopper, the Cavit…
3DPI.TV – NYC's latest 3D Printing Store 3D Heights
Last Saturday (21st December) 3D Heights launched the grand opening of another 3D printing store in Manhattan (NYC), and is aiming high. The storefront carries six modern computers, a range of 3D prin…
NYC’s Latest 3DP Store Opens This Saturday
I just got off the phone with Jerry Castanos, a nice fella from Washington Heights in uptown Manhattan. And Jerry tells me that, with the help of his friends, family and the local community, he’s laun…
TAZ 3 3D Printer: Good Enough To Get You in Spin?
At the end of last month, Aleph Objects reduced the price of its TAZ 2 3D printer as a Black Friday deal. At the time, we speculated here at 3DPI if this was ahead of a new model release. It seems so!…
The Cavity Skateboard: Printed In One Single Piece
Let’s say you go to architecture school because you like designing houses, but then, you decide you want to make a skateboard instead. Your square, Midwestern uncle would probably say, “Only in Califo…
Life's Calling Made Right by the "Root Promise of 3D Printing"
As with the promise of the automobile allowing us to travel in comfort; the promise of the PC to help us simplify our increasingly complex lives; and the cell phone’s promise of connecting us to…
Da Vinci 3D Printer: A Renaissance For High Quality but Low Cost
Da Vinci, renaissance man. From new painting materials to mirror writing to helicopters to parachutes to planes to submarines to… you name it, this profound genius could produce a strong attempt…
CEO of Mcor Believes in ‘A 3D Printer for Everyone’
As the co-founder and CEO of 3D printer manufacturing company Mcor Technologies, Conor MacCormack cannot be completely unbiased in his views on 3D printing. However, his vision for the industry — and …
LENS Offers Solution for Complex Medical Implants
While no implant is easy or simple, some medical implants, especially concerning bone replacement, pose complex problems. Researchers at Washington State University have implemented new procedures uti…
Santa Claus’ Pop-Up 3D Print Shop
When writing about 3D printing we often focus on the future: what that technology will do, its potential, what a particular process means and what it will be able to do for humanity. However some of t…
Emergency and Custom Keys from Shapeways and KeyMe
I’ve always wanted, like, this big key with Kanye West’s head on it, but never had a way of actually producing such a thing. Just when I was at the end of my rope, literally tying up a noose, Shapeway…