In this week’s edition of Sliced, the 3D Printing Industry news digest, we answer the following questions: Has 3D printing become the latest band member of Panic! At the Disco? Can additive manufactur…
LEGO 3D printing takedowns: a lawyer responds and LEGO replies
“Everything is not awesome” is how one fan responded to recent LEGO takedown notices issued to the 3D printing community. 3D Printing Industry has now received a reply from LEGO and further insight in…
3D printing community hit by LEGO takedown notices
Last week 3D Printing Industry learned that the Lego Group is targetting the 3D printing maker community with a series of takedown notices. A 2010 ECJ ruling found that although the classic LEGO brick…
MyMiniFactory launches customizer tool for interchangeable 3D model parts
London-based 3D content platform MyMiniFactory has launched a new customizer tool which allows its users to personalise 3D printable models. Currently in beta, the Customizer allows designers to crea…
Ravensburger launches 3D printable board game character competition
London-based 3D content platform MyMiniFactory, and German game and toy company Ravensburger, have partnered to launch a co-creation 3D printing design competition for the board game, Labyrinth. In w…
3D Printing Industry Awards 2019 – Protolabs Trophy Design Competition winner announced
The 3D Printing Industry Awards will take place next month. So far we have received over 55,000 votes, making this the largest survey of the 3D printing industry. At our black-tie dinner in London the…
2019 3D Printing Industry Awards Trophy Design Challenge returns with Protolabs
Now in its third year, the 3D Printing Industry Awards will return to London on Thursday, 6th June, 2019. Not only is it now time to cast your vote to decide this year’s winners, we are also proud to …
40 3D printing experts give predictions for additive manufacturing in 2019
What are 3D printing experts expecting for 2019? 3D Printing Industry asked 40 CEO’s and other leaders in the additive manufacturing sector to give their opinions. The 3D printing forecasts and expect…
MyMiniFactory enables 3D printing accessibility with Click & Print plugin for OctoPrint
MyMiniFactory, a UK-based 3D content platform, has launched a new plugin to make 3D printing more widely accessible to consumers. The Click & Print plugin is now available for OctoPrint, an open s…
3MF 3D printing file format adopted by Autodesk, HP, Microsoft, Siemens, and 13 others
The 3D Manufacturing Format (3MF), a Joint Development Foundation project established to develop an advanced 3D printing file format, has announced that 17 companies have adopted its 3MF platform to c…