Maxon Introduces Digital Twin for Streamlined Product Marketing
Maxon, a software company specializing in professional 3D graphics, modeling, and rendering tools, has unveiled Digital Twin, a standalone application…
CurifyLabs Introduces PharmaPrinter Aurum for Faster, Precision Compounding
CurifyLabs, a company developing 3D printing technology for compounded medications, has launched its newest 3D compounding printer, the PharmaPrinter …
Why Pro PCTG Is Emerging as a Go-To Material for Durable, Impact-Resistant 3D Printed Parts
For years, PETG has been the material many FDM users reach for when PLA is no longer enough. It prints easily and behaves predictably, producing parts that look good on the print bed. The problem come…
Thousand Hand Bodhisattva Reincarnated with 3D Printing in China
3D scanning and 3D printing technology have begun to play an extremely important role in preserving historical artefacts and my guess is that it won’t stop any time soon. In China, they’re using the t…
MatterHackers Release 1st MatterControl Update
MatterHackers just released the first update for its simple to use 3D printing management software MatterControl. Among the multiple new features is the ability to effortlessly turn 2D images into 3D …
Sculptify’s FLEX Flees Filament in Favour of Pellets
There’s an image in the mind of most people introduced to desktop 3D printing of a long tube of plastic filament going into one end of a printer and coming out as a 3D object at the other. Sculptify, …
Modio Is Going to Make 3D Printable Action Figures Really “App-en”
It took me a while to write this article because I was trying to figure out all the implications that this new App could have and it was not easy. I know I tend to get carried away with the implicatio…
XYZ’s Da Vinci 3D Printer Jailbroken to Run Open Source Firmware (& Any Filament)
Last week Michael wrote a very interesting piece about the multibillion dollar question on everyone’s mind: how to deal with IP protection in the age of downloadable objects. The issue is also relevan…
Free Form 3D Metal Printer Yields Giant 3D Printed Bench
If you had a robot arm capable of 3D printing long strands of metal, what’s the first thing you would make? (That’s a serious question that you can answer in the comments below.) It looks like Joris L…
Paracosm 3D Scanner Starter Kit Officially for Sale
3D scanning is slowly becoming an actual thing! And by 3D scanning I mean low-cost, consumer-friendly, and, most importantly, mobile 3D scanning. The Structure 3D scanning sensor killed it on Kickstar…
3D Printing Global Learning Partnerships by 3D Systems & LUV
Level Up Village (LUV) is 3D Systems newest partner in its recently announced MAKE.DIGITAL education initiative. 3D Systems has announced the partnership with LUV, which will provide 8 to 12 year old …
Kast: The Fastest Desktop 3D Printer?
Most desktop 3D printers sold are made by 3D printing giants Stratasys (as MakerBot), and 3D Systems, plus Ultimaker, then far behind are Solidoodle, Leapfrog and about 200 other printers thanks to th…
Student Filmmaker Feasts on 3D Printing for his Film with Amazing Results
Aron Bothman used multiple mediums to create his beautiful student film ‘Feast in a Fallen City’, including traditional 2D animation CGI, and 3D printing. He recruited 3D printing company Cokreeate to…
The Body as an Interface, Body Labs’ Project Takes Form At Solid 2014
I first reported on the New York based Body Labs’ project to use 3D models of the human body as an interface for a wide range of applications last March. A couple of months later the Kinect and softwa…
Smith|Allen’s Latest 3D Printing Installation “Endograft” Shifts The Experience of A Wall
The newest 3D printing installation from Smith|Allen studios is an undulating pentagram design providing a unique spatial experience. With 222 custom 3D printed pieces, the design is a wall conjuring …
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