3D Printing Blog

I dropped by Tethon 3D’s stand at Formnext and had a chat about their new ceramic 3D printing resin.

I’m reading about a new and highly unusual 3D printing process, “HIAM”.

Charles R. Goulding and Warren Buzzell look at how a recent incident might have been helped with a 3D print application.

Polymaker showed us some of their recent products, and it’s quite amazing what they’ve developed.

INTAMSYS launched a new desktop 3D printer that can operate at high temperatures.

Online 3D modeling tool Clara.io is shutting down.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi wonder why Ford didn't use 3D printing to resolve a recent supply chain issue.

After looking at several AI tools recently, I’ve realized there is another fundamentally important way AI will affect the 3D printing world.

There’s an interesting tale about the Blackbelt 3D printer, the first successful belt 3D printer.

I had a chat with Essentium’s CEO, Blake Teipel the other week and learned about their increased focus on quality.

This week’s selection is “Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom” by Sylvia Martinez and Gary S. Stager.

Duplex 3D has produced what could be one of the strangest — and fastest — FFF 3D printers on the market.

Sculpman’s variable nozzle is among the most interesting technologies we saw at Formnext.

Sculpteo released their fascinating annual survey of 3D printing last week.

This week’s selection is the 3D printed bicycle by voxeljet, Mungo Racing and Spherene.

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 hope Pakistan will release their ban on import of 3D printers to assist in flooding relief.

I’m looking at an interesting open source hardware project, the ReCreator 3D.

After seeing a great deal of new metal 3D printers recently, it seems that there are new classes of equipment emerging.

ICON has landed a US$57.2M contract with NASA to 3D print a Lunar 3D printing system.

Cognitive Design Systems understands that lightest does not equal optimum and not all 3D prints are manufacturable.

We had a quick look at Q.BIG 3D’s new QUEEN 1 3D printer.

After speaking with Roboze representatives, it seems the company is going full-out on materials.

We have a small update from the folks at Glassomer.

Charles R. Goulding and Ryan Donley look at how certain advanced automobile manufacturers are now leveraging 3D printing.

Our review of the new Anycubic M3 Premium resin 3D printer wraps ups with a look at software, print quality and final thoughts.

Our review of the new Anycubic M3 Premium resin 3D printer continues with a look at setup, calibration, and software.

Our lab was busy taking a close look at the new Anycubic M3 Premium resin 3D printer.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi look at developments in construction 3D print applications.

Foundry Lab has developed an extremely rapid process for producing strong metal parts in many different materials.

We had a look at Freemelt’s latest innovations in metal 3D printing.

I had a look at Slice Engineering’s highly unusual Mosquito Conduct hot end, and was surprised to find it doesn’t need a fan.

This week’s selection is “Digital Gastronomy: From 3D Food Printing to Personalized Nutrition”.

Rivelin Robotics showed their amazing metal 3D print post processing station to us last week.

TU Delft researchers have demonstrated 3D printing with waste cellulose and lignin materials.

NPPower revealed their new small-format metal 3D printer, the Malachite.

This week’s selection is the astonishing Aerospike rocket engine by Hyperganic.

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

Charles R. Goulding and Matt Selman consider the benefits of using 3D print technology to produce watertight cases for underwater devices.

At Formnext 2022, Stratasys featured a product they don’t even sell.

Rapidia has had some challenges recently, but it seems they are overcoming them.

Sinterjet launched a new and inexpensive metal 3D printing system, the M60.

The network consists of seven additive manufacturing job shops able to handle protoypes or small-series part production

A new company has developed a 3D print system entirely around the concept of digital inventory.

A startup seems to have developed a way to 3D print liquid aluminum.

Our post describing a new approach for multimaterial powder recoating generated some discussion.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi examine the potential of 3D printing to aid the process of reshoring the pharma industry.

After looking at the SYGLASS2 3D printer from Sygnis, I am astonished at what it can 3D print: kilometers of optical fiber.

We had a look at the very unusual METROM SEAMHex 3D printer.

Essentium released the 2022 edition of their annual additive manufacturing survey.