3D Printing Blog

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 how interest in home gardening has increased could generate more 3D printing activity.

You just cracked open your new desktop FFF 3D printer. What filaments should you use?

Several new AM materials were announced in the past week.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi suggest more use of 3D printing for toy manufacturing could be considered.

Once costly and full of limitations, fused granular fabrication (FGF) advancements are making it a viable 3D printing method for various materials, including foaming materials.

A desktop 3D printer could allow easy ceramic 3D printing at home.

There is increasing interest in green 3D printing.

HP announced a strategic acquisition that effectively puts them in the bottle-making business.

Charles R. Goulding and Randall Rothbort examine a new approach for producing bioinks using microbes.

Ultimaker announced a new version of Ultimaker Cura, which seems to offer much more rapid 3D printing.

Our annual reader survey ends this week, and there's not much time left to enter to win an amazing desktop 3D printer.

Desktop Health, a line of business within Desktop Metal, announced a new series of dental 3D printers.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi look at how 3D printing might affect the flooring market.

A long post from Josef Prusa held some hints at where the company may be heading next.

’ve encountered one of those “Best 3D Printers” stories, and want to tell you why they’re really not informative.

A researcher at MIT has developed a method of 3D printing invisible labels on objects.

This week’s selection is “3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing” by Chee Kai Hua and Kai Fai Leong.

I’ve been wondering about the actual logistics of using 3D printing in military settings, and its a bit more gray than black and white.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and I say that a 3D printed object is worth a billion.

A new development program has been launched for 3D printing applications involving NFCs.

This week’s selection are the Wooden Train Track Extensions models by Michal Fanta.

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

 Charles R. Goulding and Joseph Castine look at how construction 3D printing might avert future disasters.

Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark announced the development of a new volumetric 3D printing process they call “TVP”.

Do you know what a nurdle is?

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi look at the 3D printing activities of Zeiss.

Find out why High Area Rapid Printing is worth the hype. It just might revolutionize the way goods and products are created.

A chat with John Olhoft of FAME 3D revealed something interesting: they operate a truly massive 3D print farm.

This week Polymaker announced a partnership with AMESOS to developed what they call “FFF 2.0”, a high speed 3D printing process and associated 3D printer.

Materialise announced a partnership with Sigma Labs that could dramatically increase the reliability of production 3D printing.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi look at 3D printing business activity in the state of New Jersey.

Carbon announced a two new DLS 3D printers, the M3 and M3 Max.

Thor3D announced an unusual project to raise funds for a green non-profit organization.

While browsing through some 3D printing books, I came across a very suspicious situation.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi look at recent high-profile 3D printing activity in Italy.

We've rolled out our annual reader survey, and this year you could win an amazing desktop 3D printer if you participate.

New research has developed an incredibly powerful X-ray system that could directly show microstructures in 3D prints as they are made.

EOS launched their own manufacturing network this week.

This week’s selection is “Creating Lifelike Figures in Polymer Clay: Tools and Techniques for Sculpting Realistic Figures” by Katherine Dewey.

Minifactory announced a tool for 3D printers I hadn’t seen previously: a Nozzle Alignment Camera.

A new research paper investigates the rather long list of applications for 3D printed lattices.

Researchers have found a way to directly use photosynthesis to power a mobile rover using a 3D printed design.

This week’s selection is a life size 3D printed airplane model by Materialise Manufacturing.

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

Charles R. Goulding & Andressa Bonafe propose using 3D printing to increase the ability of drones to perform reforestation activities.

The eternal question of those using filament-powered 3D printers needs an answer.

Several new AM materials were announced in the past week.

A new belt 3D printer design is available from an open source project.

Project will investigate improving sustainability for additive manufacturing in the space sector.