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…
UMaine unveils its largest next-generation polymer 3D printer
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! The University of Maine (UMaine) has demonstr…
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…
3DS Plugs its UK Gap with Acquisition of CRDM
So, the rumour I heard earlier this year — that 3D Systems was looking to acquire an established UK-based 3D printing service — has just been confirmed. And they don’t come much more established than …
Isis One 3D Printer and The Real RepRaps of Chicago
As we delve deeper into the 3D printing trend and more startups make their way into the marketplace, it’s difficult to determine which startups contribute to the advancement of 3D printing technology …
False claims, overblown expectations and disappointed users – the growing hurdles of consumer-level 3D printing
Watching and writing about the 3D printing industry, as I do, is an activity that brings simultaneous insight, hope for the future, and, it has to be said, frustration. One of the main sources of the …
Winner of Robot Design Challenge will See it 3D Printed by a Master
A challenge currently being hosted by The Stan Winston School of Character Arts, to design a 3D printable robot in 3D software, is closing this coming weekend. Robot lovers everywhere that are blessed…
For a Limited Time Sculpteo is Shipping 3D Printed Models Stateside for a Steal
Paying homage to summer making activities and its presence at some upcoming State-side events, Sculpteo, the French 3D printing service company, has a nice offer for US and Canadian residents going on…
This Year, 3D Printing a Wrench Actually Means Something
Do you remember a couple of years ago, when everyone (in 3D printing land anyway and a few million people besides) got very excited about 3D printed wrenches? Well that was a well-timed, well-executed…
A New Look for 3D Printing
Long has been the promise that 3D printing will provide consumers with individually customized products designed specifically to fit their individual bodies. This, with a few exceptions, has yet to b…
Time Will Tell – rvnDSGN's US-Manufactured 3D Printed Titanium Watches offer a new Approach to the Art of Making Wearable Functional Fashion
During the last decade or so, the watch has pretty much gone the way of the cufflink — that’s to say only seen on the wrists of top executives at prestigious galas and other above-bacchanal events for…
ExOne Teams with rp+m to 3D Print Tungsten
You may have heard of tungsten. No, Tungsten isn’t Bertie Wooster’s nebbish friend who’s more interested in toads than being courted by one of the Wooster women. Found in almost everything, from chea…
Anatomy According to Da Vinci — 3D Printed & On Show in Edinburgh
The WMG (or Warwick Manufacturing Group) is one of the original academic institutions to work with 3D printing technologies in its earliest forms. I know this because when I started working on Rapid N…
Printrbot’s Junior 3D Printer Is All Grown Up & An Expanding Community
Over the weekend, Brook Drumm, the mastermind behind the Printrbot series of 3D printers, revealed how excited he is about the developments taking place at Printrbot. Most notably with the upgraded Pr…
The Queer Art of 3D Printed Failure
Messing up royally is meant to teach us a lesson about how to achieve success during subsequent trials. If it’s embarrassing, devastating, even painful, we will remember, in our minds and muscles, to…