Amazemet scaling metal 3D printing with Siemens’ Xcelerator software
Polish metal 3D printing company Amazemet has adopted industrial manufacturing firm Siemens’ Xcelerator software portfolio. The Warsaw Universit…
Formlabs launches new 3D printers Form 4 and Form 4B
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! 3D printer OEM Formlabs has launched its new desktop re…
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…
The Expanding Retail 3D Printing Channel —And Other Factors Affecting the Future Growth of Personal 3D Printing
This week marked the “official” launch of Photizo Group’s research and consulting offerings into the world of 3D printing and additive manufacturing. While I’m excited for many reasons, the most inter…
Inside 3D Printing Moves Over to Singapore in October
Following three Inside 3D Printing expos across North America, two of which have taken place and reported great success, and a third to take place in San Jose next month, Mediabistro will be hosting a…
Hammerhead Shark 3D model on Thingiverse
Even though Discovery Channel’s Shark Week – the channel’s top tier, annual week-long, feature that first aired in 1987 – has been a controversial topic this year due to some a…
Future of Home Living — To Include 3D Printing? 3D Systems Believes So.
On the off chance you are in or around New York City later today and you are looking for something interesting to do at lunch-time, you may well be interested in this (if not feel free to jump to the …
Crowd Funded 3D Printing Demos for Disadvantaged Youth
Not only is 3D printing exacting, painstaking and complex to master successfully, but it is also hugely inspirational and aspirational. The idea that we have a process by which you can hold in your ha…
Fancy a Quickie? The Latest Design Challenge from Shapeways is Short & Sweet
Shapeways seems to be seriously ramping up its marketing activities of late — even more so than usual and right across the board. I think Savannah might have quite a bit to do with that. And this week…
If You Can't Stop it, Trace it — Personalised Forensics and 3D Printing
Earlier this year, Cody Wilson’s Defence Distributed scared many of us with the potential menace of putting a gun “anywhere there’s a computer and an Internet connection”. The varied respo…
Matthew Plummer-Fernandez Uses 3D Printing Technology to Create Venus of Google
Artist Matthew Plummer-Fernandez has used Shapeways’ 3D printing technology and a “Hill Climbing” algorithm to birth the Venus of Google. The Roman goddess manifests from the foam of the sea in mythol…
LOHAN to Get High Enough to See Stars: 3D Printed Spaceplane from The Register
Not since Lance Bass was going to shoot himself into oblivion has a celebrity made space-related headlines like The Register’s PARIS and LOHAN projects. In 2010, the Special Projects Bureau of UK tech…
D3D's Dual and Quad Extruder Head Campaign on Kickstarter
An FDM extruder, which is sized similar to a normal part but has a dual-head, or, doubling it down with a quad-head fitted into a space currently only seen to boast two heads; and if such a part was a…
3D Systems Launches Cubify Sculpt
3D Systems has today revealed its latest 3D content tool — Cubify® Sculpt. Available immediately, via the company’s online community and store Cubify, Cubify Sculpt is said to be a ‘powerful virtual c…
3D Printers of the World Unite – PrintToPeer's Giant 3DP Sculpture in the Making
Measuring size can mean very different things depending on the perceived context and subjective focus. From evaluating an object’s physical size to understanding the cultural or technological im…