[INTERVIEW] ModuleWorks CEO on How the 3D Printing Industry can learn from CNC’s History
The banishment of CNC or injection molding to join flint knives, warp-weighted looms, and other archaic tools in a cobweb-strewn museum is not happeni…
Prodways Machines’ DENTAL PRO Automated Line for better dental efficiency
French 3D printer developer Prodways Machines is introducing the DENTAL PRO Automated Line, a system designed to bring full automation to dental labor…
Sculpteo Unveils PA12 Blue: A New 3D Printing Material for Food Safety
Sculpteo, the France-based digital manufacturing company and subsidiary of BASF, has introduced PA12 Blue, a new 3D printing material designed specifically for food handling, preparation and storage. …
Additive/Aerospace Summit Preview
Everyone’s calling it “The Must-Attend Business Event for Additive Fabrication Servicing the Aero-Defense Value Chain!” Ok, so that’s what the promotional materials are calling it, but the Additive/Ae…
NEO 3D & A 3D Printed Economic Revival
NEO 3D is a delta 3D printer made by a team in Indonesia, one of the world’s fastest rising economies, and, from a maker perspective, home to much potential in home based manufacturing. The NEO …
Sigma Labs $5 Million For AM Research
Sigma Labs, Inc. (SGLB) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, B6 Sigma, Inc., was among the winners to be awarded a $5 million grant by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute…
Monstermatic: Monster in My Pocket Revived for the Web 2.0 Era
Okay they got me. I would totally fund a Kickstarter campaign for a company that wants to make 3D-printed monster customization a reality. I would do it! Because I love monsters. Monstermatic is a 3D …
Phoenix – Pushing Limits in the sub-$400 3D Printer Market
Besides 3D printing, I can’t think of any other sector in the tech industry where it’s almost impossible to keep track of all the interesting new concepts that keep popping up! Granted, mo…
Eh, Go 3D Print Your Mother a Dinosaur, Why Don’t Ya?
Chances are you’ve already watched every lecture on paleontology on the internet already, but, in case you missed it, I’ll point you towards a recent talk given by Dr. Kenneth Lacovara, Associate Prof…
3D Printing Household Item Modelling Challenge
3DHacker has announced a modelling contest for 3D-printable household items — a chance to expose your design and 3D printing skills by entering your original design for a household item. Model submiss…
US National Institute of Standards and Technology's $7.4 million Grant For Additive Manufacturing Research
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is to award USD$5 million to the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII) for a collaborativ…
AutoDesk Releases New Meshmixer (Free Download from Their Sandbox)
AutoDesk has released an updated Meshmixer app available through its 123D family of apps. It is a free download and allows users to edit and combine scanned files as well as repair files from scans an…
Research at US ARL: Using 3D Printing to Produce Replaceable & Blast-proof Vehicle Parts
Even though it’s nicer to think positively about what most people immediately associate with 3D printing, the reality sometimes deviates from the ideology. And while there are many good, positive appl…
New, Stronger Metals from Missouri University of Science and Technology
Researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology have been using a $660,000 grant from NASA to simulate stronger materials for 3D printing. Led by Dr. Frank Liou, of the school’s Lase…
Microsoft Update for 8.1 Reveals Development of New 3D Print Output Format
Microsoft has concluded that none of the existing 3D output formats meet the goals for its 3D printing support in Windows and is now proposing instead to develop a new XML based format, the 3D Manufac…
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