3D Printing Blog

The University of Maine’s Composites Center designed and 3D printed what appears to be the largest ships ever produced with the technology.

This week’s selection is “Neri Oxman Material Ecology” by Paola Antonelli, Anna Burckhardt, Hadas A. Steiner, and of course, Neri Oxman.

Prices are rising everywhere these days, and one has to wonder if 3D printing will follow that same path.

Here are my thoughts on seven completely new features I’d like to see on desktop resin 3D printers.

A group of companies launched a new website dedicated to storing 3D printable models for Ukraine.

This week’s selection is the Life Size Godzilla Print by Reddit contributor Slayde and team.

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

Charles R. Goulding and Johnson Jiang examine how a 3D printing lab helped transform Cooper Union.

German innovation company Teu2tec is developing a 3D printer capable of operating underwater.

Several new AM materials were announced in the past week.

There are few nano-scale 3D printer options, but one comes from UpNano.

Azure Printed Homes will use plastics destined for landfill to print affordable living structures instead.

Which brands of 3D printers are most well-known?

After a long period of silence, Aurora Labs announced they have launched a project to attempt to meet certain aerospace manufacturing standards.

3D print startup OPT landed a huge US$15M investment.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi look at how capital expenditures will increase after the pandemic and how they could benefit 3D printing.

What are the most important factors to consider when purchasing a desktop 3D printer?

LIDAR-based 3D body scanning technology has been licensed by Cornell University to a fashion startup.

BCN3D announced an entirely new 3D printing process using resin, Viscous Lithography Manufacturing, or “VLM”.

Construction 3D printer manufacturer ICON revealed a prototype 3D printed house design they call “House Zero”.

MakerBot implemented changes to Thingiverse that make some users very unhappy.

Desktop Metal announced the first shipment of their Production system to a client, opening the door for significant changes.

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

This week’s selection is “Battlefields In Miniature: Making Realistic and Effective Terrain for Wargames” by Paul Davies.

There is an ongoing quest to achieve faster and faster 3D print speeds on FFF equipment. But there are a number of challenges.

Seurat published a page explaining much more about their fascinating new “Area Printing” concept.

COBOD released an online construction 3D printer Configurator, the first I’ve seen from any provider.

This week’s selection is the shocking Cryptide Sneakers by designer Stephan Henrich.

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 explain how their clients have tackled manufacturing automation.

9T Labs announced a huge US$17M investment.

3D Systems announced the surprise acquisition of not one, but two companies this week. What’s going on?

This is a bit of a surprise to me: Xact Metal has developed a dental solution for metal applications.

Students from USC’s engineering school are making free 3D-printed prosthetics for children through its USC 3D4E Freehand project.

Our testing of the CR-Scan Lizard 3D scanning system from Creality continues with post-scan processing and our summary.

Our testing of the CR-Scan Lizard 3D scanning system from Creality continues with turntable and handheld modes and software.

We were able to obtain a CR-Scan Lizard 3D scanning system from Creality and performed some testing.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi look at a unique use of 3D printing for prosthetics.

3DGence announced a new industrial, high temperature 3D printer, the F421.

Funding has been provided to researchers working on an “atomic” 3D printer for producing solar cells.

ICON announced yet another funding round, bringing their available cash to unprecedented levels.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi look at how Bell have used a variety of 3D printing technologies and services to make parts for their helicopters.

A German-Ukrainian startup has developed a new system for not only 3D printing, but multifunction manufacturing.

After considerable development, Fusion3 announced their new EDGE 3D printer.

A third-party customizer service can handle Thingiverse 3D models.

This week’s selection is “Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor”.

Modix announced two interesting new add-ons for their large-format 3D printers.

CASTOR and Ultimaker announced an agreement to integrate CASTOR’S screening software into Ultimaker Cura.

A PhD student in New Zealand is 3D printing catalysts to enable use of safer rocket propellants.

This week’s selection is the QR Code Memorial by Michael P. Bourque.