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…
Some Thoughts on Copyright and 3D Printing
3D printing, the sexy umbrella term for additive manufacturing, is currently hyped in the media, as is the relationship between 3D printing and copyright. This article is intended to address issues ar…
3D Printed Head Balancinator Balances Life for Girl with Hypotonia
In response to the Michigan Tech study that declared the practicality and cost-savings of home 3D printing, a post from The Register counter-declared the crudeness and uselessness of most home 3D-prin…
3D Printing A Fully Immersive MIDI Musical Instrument
As I think about computers more and more, I realize that one of the biggest issues with computers is their user-interface, still inorganic and unintuitive. Of all the areas where this has to have the …
To Beca or not Tobeca: New Portable 3D Printer
The Tobeca 3D printer — a RepRap derivative — appears to be a handy piece of kit seeking to join the now saturated niche of portable 3D printers occupied by well known names such as PrintrBot, Portabe…
Spot-A-Materials: Consumables for Your DLP/SLA Printer
With the rise of DIY DLP and desktop SL 3D printers – including the Form1, the B9 Creator, and even this unnamed, little number – ambitious hobbyists and serious prototypers are going to n…
With Who & When will Stratasys Join the Metal 3D Printing Crowd? Gary Anderson Thinks he Knows …
Gary Anderson of 3DPrintingStock.com (who also contributes to Engineering.com and Seeking Alpha) has gone on the record with a bold — if unsubstantiated — prediction. He has stated that “I am predicti…
botObjects Late Announcement Reveals Video, Distributors & a Launch Date
To be frank, I don’t really know where to begin with this … Maybe here: On 30th August botObjects announced they had a big announcement coming — 11 days later on 10th September, they had their twitter…
Lots of "Z's" Around this Week — This One is ZMorph
Red. Or black. Or white. Hmmm. The colour of a car doesn’t improve it’s performance. But, arguably, it does affect the happiness of the driver from time to time – in turn the perform…
Reut Institute's XNL Contest – Designing Special Products for Special People
Even though 3D printing is entering the space age as 3D printers head out of this world with NASA, the tech is also capable of meeting more mundane — but highly inspirational — challenges right here o…
Bitter Sweet — 3D Systems Acquires The Sugar Lab
3D Systems has acquired 3D printing confectionary start-up The Sugar Lab. Based in LA, California this micro-design firm was founded by husband and wife team Kyle and Liz von Hasseln, and as Mike repo…
Repables: Thingiverse Made Open (Again)
A new 3D model repository is coming, or so promises the Repables homepage with a header that reads, “It’s kinda almost ready! Get started now…” When there are vast repositories out there already, like…
MoMA Teens Remix Famous Works of Art with Shapeways
I’ve always wondered if having more access to technology in high school would have made me a better student. I got A’s and B’s, mind you, but I just wasn’t that into learning. I didn’t see the point! …