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…
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…
Maker Tests – Melting Point of Nylon
Let’s take a look at things melting! Oh wait, I mean let’s take a look at scientific tests. Brandon Enright plans on experimenting with Shapeways WSF (White, Strong & Flexible) materia…
Universities and Science Minister, David Willetts Announces £350 million funding to support 70 New Centres to Train Tomorrow’s Engineers & Scientists
We all know there is a skills gap, we know it’s going to be a really serious problem unless we train the next generations to fill that gap properly. Today the UK government is announcing steps towards…
Fripp Design and Research to Release Soft Tissue Prostheses Printer Picsima
3DPI’s newest writer, Davide Sher, recently relayed the stunningly real prosthetics of Fripp Design and Research, based at the Advanced Manufacturing Park of Sheffield in the UK. The company behind th…
Robox 3D Printer Kicks off on Kickstarter Ahead of CES in January
Mike introduced the Robox 3D printer earlier this month, and now there is some clearer visibility on this new system as it kicks off on Kickstarter. Apart from the rhetoric typical of new 3D printers …
Sigma Labs Extends Contract with Honeywell Aerospace
With 3D metal printing still in its toddler stages, quality control still leaves a lot to be desired. Sigma Labs is one of the few companies publicly working to solve the problem of ensuring repeatab…
Competing on the Education Front
Both of the major 3D printer vendors (Stratasys via Makerbot and 3D Systems with the Cube range) are taking education very seriously these days — it’s almost as if they are spurring each other on to d…
The Holidays Are Coming – And So is Santa on His New 3D Printed Sleigh
Christmas is always coming, and these days the consumer frenzy starts earlier and earlier, which personally I think is a shame. Don’t get me wrong, I do get all gooey around Christmas — the nativity p…
Portabee GO Portable 3D Printer is Go!
One of the most recent trends in desktop 3D printers is to take it off the desktop and make it go portable. Examples include, in order of recency: the Lumifold, the Tobeca, and the Bukito. The most re…
Company Behind “Europe’s First 3D Printer” Acquired by French Robotics Firm
A new 3D printer company has emerged in France, through the acquisition of an old one. Prodways is the result of a purchase by the Gorgé Group of 3D printing innovator, Phidias Technologies. And the…
Watch this 3D Printed Brand Collaboration — Courtesy of NOOKA & Cubify
3D Systems has just announced its latest 3D printed brand collaboration — with fashion brand NOOKA. Together the two companies will deliver a special edition 3D printed Zub 40 watch collection, exclus…
3D Printing Plastics — Trials, Tribulations and A Need for Ethical Change
After the wonder and excitement of the London 3D Printshow dissipated, I felt compelled to write about the use of plastic printing materials. This stemmed initially from a conversation with William Ho…
Massdrop Drops Prices by Bulk Ordering 3D Printers and Supplies
This is awesome! It’s realllllly brilliant. I mean, this is how things should have been working all along! /End article/ Just joshin’! So here’s what the smart thing is: Massdrop is a website that poo…