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…
Last Few Days to Pre-Order 3D Printing and Medical Industry Report at Introductory Price
The first 3D printing industry report resulting from the leading collaboration of Econolyst and 3DPI will be available in a months time. Focusing on 3D printing in the medical sector, interested parti…
An Open Letter to Shapeways and i.materialise: Please fix your Stores!
Here, in an open letter to two of the most well known, global 3D printing service providers, Paulina Perepelkin, aka, AdditiveFashion, raises some of the issues that USERS are facing. Her letter, orig…
The Fuel3D Scanner: Taking the Bull by the Horns
With the release of the Makerbot Digitizer and the wildly successful Kickstarter campaign for the Fuel3D scanner, some folks might wonder what the difference between the two are. So, the Fuel3D people…
Replicator 1 Revisited – the FlashForge Creator 1 and the Tightrope between Copying and Innovating Incrementally
Jinhua FlashForge Technology Co.,Ltd, a 3D printer company from China, is offering a new FDM 3D printer with a quite attractive price tagged to it. The company, which might be unfamiliar to some of ou…
Executive Interview — Mitch Ackmann
Mitch Ackmann is the President of up-and-coming US 3D printer company Afinia, and also holds the same position for Afinia’s parent company Microboards based in Minnesota. With a background in electron…
Jari Pallari Highlights Orthotics & Prosthetics Applications of 3D Printing at TCT Show
With just under a month to go to the UK’s largest 3D Printing Expo — TCT Show + Personalize — the organisers continue to ramp up expectations that this year’s event will be as good as ever. The line u…
Japanese University Customised Equipment for The Country’s Successful Olympic Fencing Team with 3D Printing
Stratasys has revealed how the University of Tsukuba, Japan, is using one of its 3D printers — an Objet350 Connex — as part of its advanced R&D program for sports science and Olympic training. C…
Come on People, 3D Printing is Supposed to be Fun — 3D Print Life
Joel from 3D Print Life dropped me a line at the end of last week. “Who is Joel from 3D Print Life?” you may ask, and you would be forgiven for doing so, after all, I was wondering the same thing as h…
Sam Abbott's 3D Printed Skateboard
I used to love skateboarding. I mean, I still do, but pushing a board hard on parks and streets isn’t as easy as it once was, when, at my age — 31 — the scale needle is unfortunately pushing ove…
3D Printed Art Inspired by Love
Art is okay and everything, but when it’s inspired by love, that’s when I become a sucker. LA-based Daksh Sahni has collaborated with his fiance, Simone Alexandrino, to translate his partner’s 2D dra…
3D Printing & The Imperial Crown of Russia
Another case study from envisionTEC highlights a particularly prestigious jewellery application and the precise capabilities of the Perfactory 3D printing technology. The Smolensk Diamonds Jewellery G…
Zeus is Not Just a God. He’s a 3D Printing Fax Machine.
Zeus, the Greek god known for transforming into animals and doing ungodly things to mortals, has reinvented himself once again, in the form of a prototype for a highly capable 3D printer. Produced by…