3D Printing Blog

In a surprise announcement today, Markforged has acquired Teton Simulation.

This week’s selection is “So… You Want To 3D Print Food?” by Michah Bailey.

New research could enable an explosion of very inexpensive, very high resolution 3D scanners.

HP announced a partnership with Legor to enable 3D printing of precious metals, including gold and silver.

News broke about a lawsuit filed by Artec 3D regarding the intellectual property of their software suite.

This week’s selection is the Wavy Lamp by Wooj Design.

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

This week’s question is about obtaining or making 3D models for printing.

Several new AM materials were announced in the past week.

French 3D printing startup Neige3D announced a new and highly unusual 3D printer: the Dérive 1.0.

Drink giant Pepsi is getting into the 3D printing business.

Technical advances and the decreasing cost of automation are offsetting the advantages of offshoring.

Velo3D announced a new version of their flagship software product, Flow, which happens to include a very interesting DfAM feature.

Mantle has performed several projects to demonstrate the viability of their unusual paste 3D printing system.

The European Space Agency has significant interest in space-based 3D printing, now with yet another project launched.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi propose a 3D printing solution to the garage door supply chain problem.

Prusa Research has rebranded their 3D model repository; it’s now “Printables”.

We’ve learned a lot more about Helio Additive, a new startup company.

Formlabs is running a very unusual online survey.

Charles R. Goulding and Randall Rothbort look at the use of 3D printing HVAC equipment manufacturers.

Prices of almost everything are rising, but how can you tell if 3D printer prices are rising?

Sinterit announced it has fully opened operations in the US.

Little You announced a new “Artist Collaboration Opportunity” that could be of interest to many.

This week’s selection is “Props and Costume Armor: Create Realistic Science Fiction & Fantasy Weapons, Armor, and Accessories” by Shawn Thorsson and MAKE.

Anycubic today released two new series of desktop 3D printers, the Kobra and Anycubic Photon M3 series.

Researchers have made a technical breakthrough that could eventually change the use of recycled material for 3D printing.

Linde intends on doing some deep research on powder materials for 3D printing.

This week’s selection is the Volodymyr Zelenskyy Bust by Prusa Research.

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 Mattel's use of NFTs and 3D printing.

Several new AM materials were announced in the past week.

There may be big challenges ahead for metal 3D printing.

Charles R. Goulding and Warren Buzzell Jr. look at the use of 3D printing at Sweden's KTH technical university.

3D printing advances as a national security asset.

Our testing of the Creality Sermoon V1 Pro desktop 3D printer continues, with a look at operations, advanced materials and remote management.

Our lab has been very busy lately, this time testing the Creality Sermoon V1 Pro desktop 3D printer.

There’s yet another 3D printer destined for the International Space Station, this time a metal 3D printer.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi look at use of 3D printing in the bicycle industry.

Prusa Research provided a very detailed update on their XL 3D printer development.

A company has announced a “beverage printer”.

A new, inexpensive 3D modeling tool is about to arrive: Plasticity.

Charles R. Goulding and Johnson Jiang look at the partnership of Cellink and Lonza.

E3D-Online published a revealing video showing many more details and capabilities of their new Revo system.

Nexa3D announced a very interesting partnership with Addifab that should supercharge the injection molding industry.

I was surprised to see Stratasys appear on a major new show from Apple TV+.

This week’s selection is “Additive Knowledge” by Adam Rehák.

Anycubic is set to release not just one, but FIVE new desktop 3D printers.

The automotive industry has a rather tight relationship with 3D printing technology.

A quiet post on LinkedIn seems to suggest Amazon is planning some activity in additive manufacturing.

This week’s selection is a fun Caution Sign by PrusaPrinters contributor Scottw86.