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…
Tinkercad Rises from the Ashes
Kai Backman, the original founder & CEO of Tinkercad 3D design software, last night announced that the platform has found a new home – at Autodesk. This is welcome news to many, following the ann…
Rackspace Interview: Type A Machines' CEO Kevin Rowney
Type A Machines was founded in 2012 and has since focused on designing and building reliable, easy to use desktop 3D printers. Their CEO Kevin Rowney sits down with Rackspace to talk about how 3D prin…
iMakr – Peak Inside The 3D Printer Store
In today’s video feature Christopher Barnatt from ExplainingtheFuture.com explores the recently opened iMakr store (read 3DPI’s report on the opening day). Take a look at what iMakr has to…
Crowdsourcing Prior Art to Defeat 3D Printing Patent Applications
The America Invents Act changed U.S. patent law to allow preissuance submissions, a mechanism by which third parties can submit patents or printed publications to the United States Patent & Tradem…
The Bay Area Goes Maker Mad
And so it begins: the rallying cry has been made for Makers from all over to descend on the Bay Area to connect, learn, and make. The Bay Area Maker Faire 2013 begins this weekend May 18th – 19t…
3D Printing World Peace
In the wake of the hype surrounding Defense Distributed’s reckless release of CAD files for the 3D-printed gun, Michigan Tech has decided to counter the group’s negative impact on the tech…
TAZ – LulzBot’s Newest 3D Printer is All Grown Up
TAZ is the latest desktop 3D printer to come from Colorado’s LulzBot (aka Aleph Objects), following the AO-100 and AO-101 with improved specs. Besides taking a slightly different physical form compare…
iMakr – More than just a 3D Printer Shop
On April 30th iMakr opened London’s, and possibly the world’s, largest 3D printing retail store. As reported on 3DPI before, the two storey site sells a large variety of 3D printers, scanners, filamen…
3DP Manufacturer, ExOne, Announces Financial Report for Q1
As the latest 3D Printer manufacturer to go public (February 2013) and in line with its contemporaries, ExOne, this week announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2013. The report from …
German Industrial 3D Printing Co's Play Nice
I received the following press release from Concept Laser this morning. It’s short and sweet and therefore reproduced in full below: “EOS and Trumpf extend patent licences to USA, Concept Laser and EO…
The Replicator 2: An Honest Overview of the Machine and the Experience
The Makerbot Replicator 2 3D printer has been out for a while now and yet every review I have seen has been about the same or thereabouts. There have been many that purely praise the Replicator 2 and …
Obama’s 3D Printing Plans to Up US Manufacturing Take Shape
Changing the spotlight from 3D printed weaponry to using 3D printing to get the country working, US President, Barack Obama has announced a $200 million federally funded competition to create three ne…