Take a look at the history of supply chains and it may lead you all the way back to Henry Ford’s Assembly Line in 1913. As an industrial designer, mass production of consumer goods was the birthplace of my trade,…
3D Printing CNC Combo Tool has 'Limitless' Potential
Ever since the hype around 3D printing diffused, as its manufacturing limitations were exposed, work began either on improving the technology inherently to match the hype or on modifying it to integrate it to work better in combination with other…
Monkeyfab Unveils Massive KILO 3D Printer Prototype
No matter how you look at it, FDM technology has more or less reached its full potential, with 3D printing materials as one of the few areas with room for improvement. The printing process invented and mastered by Stratasys will…
Torrequebradilla, Spain. Population: 300 People and 300 3D Printed Clones
Sicnova3D, part of Grupo Sicnova, is a Spanish 3D printer and 3D scanner manufacturer that has been very active lately in promoting both its CloneScan3D scanning booth and its newest JCR 1000 large size (one cubic meter) 3D printer. The…
VW Proves to Polish Public the Power of 3D Printing for its Latest Passat
The automotive industry is one of the biggest beneficiaries of 3D printing technology, with ountless companies around the world using 3D printers on a daily basis in order to accelerate and improve the design and manufacturing processes. For them, 3D…
Trinckle 3D's New 3D Printing Service Cuts SLS Prices by 85%
There are many hurdles that need to be overcome in order to speed up the mass adoption of 3D printing. One is software accessibility, and trinckle 3D, a German online 3D printing platform, began to address that last year by implementing…
Materialise Sets Out to Streamline the 3D Printing Industry at MWC 2015
The line up of speakers that Materialise put together for the two-and-a-half day World Conference 2015 – the largest yet organized by the leading 3D printing service – immediately gives a glimpse of how difficult a task it is to…
NASA to Evaluate and Standardize AM Parts with Innovative NDE Methods
The unique problem that NASA and other organizations or companies are facing with their high-value additively manufactured parts is that the technology isn’t just redefining the way objects are made, it’s redefining the way in which such objects are tested…
Most Read Articles from Last Week – April 26th
Electroplate Your 3D Prints with the Orbit1 At last year’s Maker Faire in NYC, Monolith Studios presented their Orbit1 electroplating device, demonstrating to onlookers a machine for coating 3D prints in metallic materials. Though there are DI… Giving Any FFF…
LinkBits: 3D Printing News for the Week of April 25
Another week, another round of LinkBits: your source for brief bits of news from the 3D printing industry. The industry is booming and so are we, so here is a list of stories that we couldn’t quite fit into our…
