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…
Cosmo Wenman – Making Art Accessible with 3D Scanning
Cosmo Wenman is a man with a dream. His dream is to allow anyone who has ever wanted a sculpture that can only be found in a museum or a gallery the chance to have one. In May 2012 he proved his point…
MCor’s Tremendous Growth Figures Prompt Some Serious Investment
The rise and rise of Irish 3D printing OEM Mcor Technologies continues apace as the firm reports some very impressive figures. In the last 10 months alone Mcor has achieved a 600% increase in sales an…
Printerest: 3D Printables Repository Potential?
Image based social networking site Pinterest is proving a useful — and popular — tool among the burgeoning 3D printing community. Just as Google+ is the network of choice for makers, and Twitter sees …
3DS and the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers Announce Successful Future New Contest
The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers – a non-profit behind the prestigious 90 year old Scholastic Art & Writing Awards – have announced this year’s winners in the Future Now co…
Materialise Announces Warhol 3D Printing Challenge Winner
Ahead of the Rapid 2013 event in Pittsburgh this week, Belgian-based 3D Printing pioneer Materialise sponsored and hosted the opening event at the Andy Warhol Museum, also in Pittsburgh, PA. Marking o…
RichRap Wants to Provide a Conduit between Industry & Makers At TCT Show + Personalize 2013
Richard ‘RichRap‘ Horne, RepRap engineer extraordinaire, is a bit of 3D printing genius. He also combines that attribute with humility and altruism: not always the most reconcilable of tra…
3D Printing for Prototyping — The iDevice Pocket Tripod, Part 1
In the first of a two-part interview with Rambod Radmard, the designer and creator of a new, innovative iPhone case that is currently on Kickstarter, Shane Taylor considers how invaluable, and often o…
Indiegogo Campaign: TrindoCase Innovates Smartphone Protection
When I first heard about home 3D printing a few years ago, one of the oft-mentioned things 3D printers could potentially make for consumers was a new iPhone case. Since then, there have been countless…
GE & GrabCAD Jet Engine Bracket Design Challenge
GrabCAD, the online CAD repository and community, seems to be quite fond of challenging people to show off their skills in various ways with different types of (joint) ventures, whilst simultaneously …
3D Printed Home Computation
The Turbo Entabulator is, according to it’s rather brilliant creator Chris Fenton, ‘a simple, 3D-printable (caveat: It requires some springs, bearings, rubber bands, and nuts/bolts), fully…
3D Systems Does Metal — Finally
There has been speculation for some time that 3D Systems was looking to acquire metal 3D printing technology to complement its existing and extensive 3D printing portfolio. Metal capabilities were the…
Amazon’s New 3D Printing Store
Did you ever have a small band that you loved? You followed and consumed everything they did? You and 11 other people? Then they had a huge mega-hit and became a world-wide phenomenon and instead of j…