3D Printing Blog

I encountered what I thought to be a rather ancient 3D printer last week.

Researchers have developed a method of 3D printing highly unusual “mesosurfaces”.

Stratasys has promptly rejected Nano Dimension’s latest takeover proposal.

This week’s selection is “FreeCAD Beginner’s Starter Kit” by Aleksander Sadowski.

Something very interesting is happening at SPEE3D.

MX3D announced a new installation of the WAAM system that signals the company's growth.

There’s another AI vision option for desktop 3D printers: PrintPal’s PrintWatch.

This week’s selection is the 3D printable Seed Starter Pot by Printables contributor LaForest Labs.

Once again we take a look at the valuations of the major 3D printing companies over the past week.

Disney announced today that it has agreed to acquire Desktop Metal, a leader in additive manufacturing solutions, for US$25B in cash and stock.

A recipe designer from Paris has become the first person to make US$1M on digital recipes.

Manufacturers of consumer products are facing a dilemma in 2033: they have the technology to make almost anything on demand, but they don't know what their customers want.

Home Depot, the largest home improvement retailer in North America, announced today the launch of PartPicker.

After yesterday’s blockbuster announcement of the long-awaited Original Prusa MK4 3D printer, I have some thoughts.

BOFA has deployed a way to 3D print fume extraction connectors for 3D printers.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi look at how US companies have leveraged 3D print technology in their new Mexico factories.

Cloud-based Innovana3D is a turnkey 3D printing front-end with instant quoting, viewer and e-commerce capabilities.

UltiMaker released a new version of UltiMaker Cura earlier this month, and there is a very surprising feature included.

Nano Dimension has upped their offer to buy Stratasys, but is it enough?

Researchers in Korea have developed a new metal 3D printing pen system for manufacturing.

Charles R. Goulding and Christopher Lee spoke with Seurat Technologie's CEO, James DeMuth about Area Printing.

Surprise, surprise! Prusa Research has suddenly announced the Original Prusa MK4 3D printer.

3DQue is working on a powerful new feature they call “Direct2Print”.

I’ve had a problem with 3D software tools for many years, and it’s time to write about it.

Eplus3D introduced a very interesting metal 3D printing feature they call “One-Click Positioning”.

Examining the rapid phase changes of materials as the steel was being printed, at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), at the Argonne National Laboratory.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi foresee much 3D printing for Boeing 747s in the future.

It’s time to review the highly unusual items in our mailbag once again.

Mighty Buildings announced the opening of a new factory in Monterrey, Mexico.

BigRep described very intriguing new application for 3D printing: Helicopter Blade Restraints.

This week’s selection is “3DU: A Guide to 3D Printing in Every Classroom: Simple and Affordable Ways to Start 3D Printing in ANY Classroom, No Matter What Grade or Content Area!”…

We’ve been busy analyzing the results from our annual survey, and have some findings to show you.

Essentium launched a 3D printed parts-on-demand service.

Researchers at Michigan Technological University have been testing whether it’s feasible to 3D print key bicycle parts using common PLA material.

This week’s selection is the fascinating Ringmail system by Printables contributor Triple G Workshop.

Once again we take a look at the valuations of the major 3D printing companies over the past week.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi look at recent usage of 3D printing in offshore oil rigs.

There’s an incredibly useful online 3D utility you need to know about: CookieCAD.

Kentstrapper introduced a new high-speed 3D printer, the ZeroHS.

Relativity Space achieved their milestone this week, sort of.

Louisville Slugger is combining modern techniques with tradition by using 3D printing to create next generation equipment.

The CEO of Nano Dimension is publishing daily videos talking about their proposed Stratasys acquisition.

A new research paper predicts widespread use of 3D printers in kitchens to prepare food.

Researchers seem to have solved a major problem in bioprinting.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi look at recent developments in AI.

LIQTRA has developed a very unusual 3D printing system that’s up to 4X faster than typical FFF implementations.

Researchers have now probed the mysteries of metal 3D printing with particle accelerators.

MIT has developed “MechSense”, a new way to integrate sensors into certain 3D prints.

Materialise Process Control, released in collaboration with Phase3D and Sigma Additive Solutions, enables quality control using data gathered during the 3D printing process, and the Build Processor Software Development Kit (BP…

NASA announced the creation of a new research institute dedicated to advanced manufacturing.