Spherene V3 Removes a Key Constraint in 3D Printing Flow-Optimized Internal Structures
Spherene, a Switzerland-based software company specializing in high-performance structural design, has released Spherene V3, a major update to its pat…
New Eight-Laser Metal AM System Launched by Intech Additive Solutions
Indian 3D printer manufacturer Intech Additive Solutions announced the launch of its Infinity Series iFusion450-8, an eight-laser metal AM system, at …
New $8M America Makes Calls Target Defense AM Materials
America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have announced two new project calls totaling $8 million, focused on materials development and qualification chall…
Maryland’s Towson University Object Lab Prepares Art Students for the Real World
Towson University’s Center for the Arts gives its students a valuable skill not always found at the college level: experience. Through the school’s Object Lab, individuals pursuing a Bachelor of…
LUXeXcel's 3D Printed Corrective Glasses Get Royal Seal of Approval
LUXeXcel, the Dutch company known for its awarded printoptical technology – and has also been featured here on 3DPI for their collaboration with the academic world – has now showed that the advanced t…
TV Show Mash-Up: 3D Printed TARDIS Transformer
Happy 4th of July, readers! For those of you who are unfamiliar, July 4th is the day on which Americans celebrate their independence from the Queen by drunkenly shooting explosives into the air within…
Additive Manufacturing and Industrial Tooling (Part 1)
The global tooling industry runs into hundreds of billions of dollars. In fact, I believe it is the single largest ‘horizontal’ industry that effectively caters to all of the major ‘vertical’ industri…
Buttercup the Duck Walks Again Thanks to 3D Printed Prosthetic Foot
Better writers than I have touched on the connection between man and animal, how we are drawn to them, how they illicit our deepest sympathies and millions of views on Youtube. NovaCopy Inc. has given…
3D Printing's Potential in Smart Packaging
When you think about ‘smart’ devices – phones and maybe TV’s come to mind, but now the ‘smart’ prefix is being applied in the area of packaging – where it actually predates the first two c…
Chinese Rocket 3D-Printed Seats
For a decade China has been developing additive manufacturing (3D printing) for advanced space flight. Since 1998 Professor Cui Guoqi, director of the Rapid Prototyping Research Center in Tianjin Uni…
2013 – The Year 3D Printing Arrived at Wimbledon
So while direct advertising at Wimbledon is still prohibited, and always will be, I heard an LTA heavyweight claim yesterday, it seems that gimmicks are not. IBM is a Wimbledon partner, and provides a…
3D Printed Shoes from Iris van Herpen & Rem D Koolhaas Dazzle & Delight in Paris
Anyone that follows high-end fashion AND follows new developments in 3D printing will likely be familiar with the name Iris van Herpen — the pioneering designer that continues to explore the two disci…
3D Systems Joins Planetary Resources to Mine Asteroids in Space
Industry leader 3D Systems has opened up a new investment wing to its operation, 3D Systems Ventures, and the division’s first order of business is mining asteroids for space minerals. On June 2…
Flexing Ceramics: Formatec Defines ADMATEC for Ceramic 3D Printing
In a power move to become an “absolute” leader in ceramic 3D printing a new project has been formed under the name ADMATEC. ADMATEC combines the Lithoz’s Lithography-based Ceramic Manufacturing (LCM) …
Autodesk & GrabCAD Partner Up for Easy & Accessible 3D Modelling
Autodesk recently announced AutoCAD 360, which brings powerful, easy-to-use AutoCAD capabilities to the web and mobile devices, as well as Fusion 360, the next generation integrated 3D industrial and …
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