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…
Executive Interview – David Burns
David Burns is the President and Chief Operating Officer of The ExOne Company the latest 3D printing system vendor to become publicly listed. Since assuming this role in 2005, Mr. Burns has been respo…
Kickstarting Man’s Ascent — A Sculptural Evolution From Analog to Digital
I have to admit that I’m not a huge fan of art on Kickstarter. It’s not so much that I have something against the art as it is about the art’s relationship to the fundraising platform. Fro…
Printcraft’s Block Manifesto Goes Thingiverse and imaterialise
If the tidal waves of 3D printing related news have pushed Printcraft far away from the shores of your memory, no worries – it’s an application from Paul Harter, designed to easily model and ena…
iMakr — 3DPI was in Attendance at the First Grand Opening
The first of the two Grand Openings of the iMakr 3D printing store in London took place last night. The second is happening tonight. After building up a mystery and much speculative coverage about whe…
Using 3D Printing to Increase the Collective Intelligence of Everything
While Defense Distributed is out creating an open library of dangerous objects to make the world a scarier place, others, like Zhang et al. have begun work on a library of printable optics to make the…
Mcor’s Vision for Accessible 3D Printing is One Step Closer — with Staples’ First 3D Printing ‘Experience Centre’
The reality of Mcor’s deal with stationary giant Staples, which was announced at Euromold at the end of last year, has recently started to come to fruition. The manufacturer of full colour 3D printers…
ro[BO]tech – A Team Outlining the Architectural Future of Maribor
ro[BO]tech is a collaborative architecture/concept design team consisting of four Italian University of Bologna students (Giulia Bottura, Ilaria Fiorini, Pier Luigi Forte, Lorenzo Natali), which has r…
3D Printing Intervertebral Discs
The modern day plague that is lower back pain, is an ever more apparent problem in a world where most of the work is done when sitting down – and also more often than not in what could be called ergon…
RapidManufactory
Various 3D printing services are seeing a rapid growth and being made available around the world. The first of this kind of service in the Middle East is a company called RapidManufactory, which is a …
More R&D Into Graphene for 3D Printing
The on-going research into the use of graphene as a 3D printing material is a notable development in the material sector. The issue is getting more attention, which should result in the research bein…
Additive Manufacturing — The Voxel Method
By way of an introduction, I am passionate about 3D printing and additive manufacturing both personally and professionally. I work for Wipro Infrastructure Engineering as Head of Business Strategy and…
3D Printing Comes to Washington — Again!
There are a lot of unanswered legal questions about 3D printing. The tremendous growth in the use of Rep Rap inspired printers over the last two years has created an altogether expected, but nonethele…