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…
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…
Creating Mash Ups with 3D Printing
What an earth is an iPhone shoe? Take a look at the following interview clip by BBC and find out why designer Alan Nguyen of Freedom of Creation in Amsterdam wanted to create this piece. Also featured…
UPDATE: On the Gun Thing (Again!)
Last night (UK time), via Twitter, Cody Wilson let the world know that “#DEFCAD is going dark at the request of the SOS Department of Defense Trade Controls.” Having received a letter from the State …
Zen Surrealism — 3D Printed Art by Kevin Mack
From deep within the recesses of his mind, artist Kevin Mack generates fluid, intertwined shapes. As you move your eyes from each Laser Sintered (LS) sculpture to the next, a funny thought might occu…
Modla — 3D Design and 3D Printing Consultation Services
Modla is a start-up 3D design and consulting firm based in London that is headed up by Jon Fidler and his business partner Richard Goddard. You may recognize Jon’s name — if you have seen the impressi…
ClearCorrect Scales 3D Printed Digital Orthodontics Capacity by 30%
Texas-based ClearCorrect was set up by dentists to provide industry leading, cost-effective tooth alignment systems to the dental and orthodontic industry. The company’s ClearCorrect invisible braces …
D-Shape Wins First Prize in NYC’s Change the Course Competition
NYCEDC, an organization dedicated to developing the Empire City’s economic climate with projects often involving all three societal sectors, have announced three winners of their NYC Waterfront Constr…
FormLabs in the Final Furlong of Production
The first 15 Form 1 3D printers have been in Beta testing for the last 2 weeks as the FormLabs team iron out final bugs and fixes. The FormLabs latest blog post reports that most of these are close to…
PrismX 3D Printer – A Mendel Descendant Looking for Your Funding
3D printing might be the only tech sector at the moment that relentlessly pushes out new core-industry hardware (3D printers) – developable, often crowdsourced concepts and market launchable – each a…
3D Printer Launches — Is the Market Reaching Saturation Point?
As I was writing the post about the PrismX 3D printer — yet another RepRap derivative sourcing funding via Kickstarter as a commercial venture for producing 3D printers — and after months of reading a…
Hands-on Education with 3D Printing at ACS Egham
An international trend to incorporate additive manufacturing into pre-college education seems to be taking place as the United Kingdom is starting to see 3D printing programmes appear in different pri…
Ultimaker 3D Printer Toy Design Challenge on GrabCAD
In line with its growing tradition for engaging people with 3D design and 3D printing, GrabCAD has launched its latest challenge with Ultimaker, credited with being one of the best-known and best-sell…
The 3D Printed Gun: The Calm After the Media Storm
The web is on fire with reports of the world’s first 3D printed handgun. It’s been a perfect media storm fuelled by two high-level news cycles. First, the public is concerned about gun violence in t…