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…
Unboxing The Form 1 3D Printer
You know the feeling you get when you get to open a box of NEW stuff you’ve ordered? It’s like Christmas Morning (or Eve as it goes in Europe) and you’re six years old again. Now you…
3D-Printed Barbie Represents Reality More than Mass Produced Barbie
We kind of already know that Barbie is awful. We’ve known it for some time now. The doll is introduced in high school health classes as the number one example of poor media representations that feed i…
The Push to Get Consumers Creating
This month sees new start up, 3D Creation Systems, in collaboration with Autodesk, initiate sponsorship of a year-long, global design challenge on the DIY website, Instructables.com, which is arguably…
Bukito Portable 3D Printer Surpasses Kickstarter Goal
The public has spoken and Deezmaker’s Bukito has received the funds necessary to kick-start their durable portable 3D printer. No stranger to 3Dprintingindustry, Bukito must now deliver on specs and s…
New UK National Curriculum Specifies 3D Printing is to “Become Standard”
I try to keep politics out of my writing – not always successfully I might add. I am not a fan! I no longer have any trust, not even a shred, in what politicians say. So, with the news on in the backg…
CL3VER Gets Clever with Interactive 3D Models
With 3D models taking up huge amounts of memory, it’s difficult for designers to display the true depth of their products over the Internet without the clunky and cumbersome method of .zip files and m…
3D Printing a Fix – Jake Evill’s Cortex Cast
I have never broken a bone, and slightly regret writing that phrase as if it foreshadows imminent harm, but I have signed a few casts in my time. The smelly bulky plaster that wraps around limbs feste…
London’s First Mini Maker Faire
London hosted its first Mini Maker Faire this weekend past. The Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire was the UK capital’s first event with the specific Maker Faire moniker and saw some of the UK’s m…
3D Printing+ – Iris van Herpen’s Hybrid Dress
The focus was on the footwear last week when Iris van Herpen’s latest fashion collection hit the catwalks in Paris. However, I was also interested to learn, via 3D printing company Materialise, that I…
3D System’s Cube at Microsoft’s Build Conference
Microsoft’s Build Conference, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, June 26-28, saw 3D printing giant 3D Systems showcase its Cube home 3D printer on Microsoft’s new operating system iteration…
Smuggled 3D Printed Gun Meters from Israeli Prime Minister
The staff of Israeli Channel 10 television have performed the increasingly obligatory media scare story by smuggling a 3D printed gun into the Knesset building in Jerusalem… getting within a few…
An Introduction from Mark Lee, Writing for 3DPI from South Korea
I grew up in the 1980’s when the PC first made its appearance, but I was too young and inexperienced to appreciate the disruptive influence that that contraption would bring. I watched as the computer…