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…
Functional 3D Printed Replica of the Malevich Teapot
This year it is exactly 90 years ago that Kazimir Malevich introduced his famous teapot in 1923 at the State Porcelain Factory in Saint-Petersburg in Russia. To celebrate this event Geometric Abstract…
Australia’s Own Giant 3D Printer
Australia is best known for the Sydney Opera House, increased UV radiation due to the growing ozone hole over Antarctica and evidence of convergent evolution. So, it’s not surprising that, while Jim S…
Potential Home Metal 3D Printer: The Vader
The New York Maker Faire 2013 bore witness to a very promising home metal 3D printer. This Liquid Metal Jet printer goes by the name of Vader. The Vader metal 3D printer is created by father-and-son m…
Saving Resources by Prototyping with 3D Printing – A Lamplight Case Study
As the potential mega trend of a future with local-based manufacturing and consumption is widely discussed in the academic and business world, 3D printing is often cited as one of the most relevant te…
3D Printing’s Looming Dilemma: File-Sharing, Standards and Regulations
As the roads diverge in the woods, 3D printing will have to make industry defining choices with accommodating its development and proliferation. 3D designs operate from design files shared similar to …
University of Southern California & the Realization of 3D Printed Houses
At ComputerWorld, there’s a great post by Lucas Mearian covering the Contour Crafting talk I mentioned in my review of the Inside 3D Printing Conference. If you missed it, the lecture, titled “Roboti…
Shapeways' New Brass
Leading online 3D print service provider Shapeways has announced two new 3D printing materials: ‘Polished Brass’ and ‘Raw Brass.’ Both are aimed at end product quality, further…
The SmartScarecrow Show & 3D Printing
The SmartScarecrow Show covers alternative energy related discussions, projects and people. For their 5th Anniversary they featured a presentation by Russ Gries from RWGresearch focusing on 3D Printi…
Lynda.com Tutorial on Shapeways 3D Printing
This short tutorial by Lynda.com explores 3D printing in general, as well as explains the basics of how Shapeways‘ printing service works. It’s a short introductory video, and you can wat…
Robotics & 3D Printing
On a recent video from The Street, Intel Futurist Brian David Johnson was interviewed on 3D Printing and robotics. David talks about Jimmy, the open-source 3D Printed Robot and how robotics will evolv…
Most Read Articles from Last Week – September 28
3-Sweep Sweeps the Net with Smart 2D to 3D Conversion Blowing up across the 3D printing Internet last week was the following video, which demonstrated a software with the ability to convert 2D photogr…
3D Printing & the Future of Design Education
For this weekend let’s check out a video from last weekends Maker Faire. In this video lasting nearly an hour you get to hear from Carla Diana, a professional designer, James Dec from Marymount …