3D Printing Blog

The 3MF Consortium announced a new extension they call “Volumetric”.

Dyemansion introduced a new “Black Line” for 3D print coloring.

This week’s selection is “3D Printing For Money” by Richard Licastro.

BigRep announced new versions of their flagship 3D printers, the BigRep ONE and BigRep Pro.

Results of a new industry survey were released by Essentium, and they show a very strong trend towards AM.

With the conclusion of this year’s Formnext conference in Germany, organizers made a startling announcement: they are strongly moving into the US market.

This week’s selection is the Life Size Horse Head by Reddit contributor thepyrodex.

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 examine the notion of 3D printing soap.

Several new AM materials were announced in the past week.

AMT introduced a new line of highly advanced post processing devices for additive manufacturers, the SF Series.

An unusual acquisition has taken place at ASTM.

One CTO, Rick Lucas, discusses the company’s newest metal binding jetting 3D printer, the X1 Powder Grip and other exciting company updates.

Prusa Research has been hinting about a mysterious “XL” desktop 3D printer, and suddenly released many details about the device.

Laser marking is a popular, efficient, and highly safe process that has allowed for a wide range of markings to be created on many types of materials.

Charles R. Goulding and Mindy Zhu look at how 3D printing could capitalize on the Squid Game craze.

Stratasys announced new software tools to enable more use of their SAF technology in manufacturing.

The business case for using additive manufacturing has always been challenging for many industries, but now things are becoming much clearer.

It’s not often Additive Industries announces a new platform, but they did this week.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi look at the relationship between cybersecurity and additive manufacturing.

Carbon announced a major move in the software market: they will provide licenses to use their powerful Design Engine tool for anyone, even if they are not a Carbon customer.

Quantica announced the T1 Pro 3D printer, which uses a new technology to enable printing of materials previously impossible to achieve.

Nexa3D announced the XiP, a 3D printer that is the first for the company in the desktop market.

This week’s selection is “Introduction to Stocks for the Novice Investor: A Beginner’s Guide to Help You Feel Confident When Investing Your Money” by Erin Wolfe.

Raise3D announced the RMF500 today, a large-format device targeted at production applications.

The US Navy awarded a huge contract for 3D printing equipment to MattHackers and Ultimaker.

Prusa Research and Trilab executives celebrate the acquisition [Source: Prusa Research]

Anycubic announced not one, but two new desktop resin 3D printers, the Photon Mono X 6K and the Photon Mono 4K.

This week’s selection is the Pomodoro Tomato by Instructables contributor prusteen.

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

Charles R. Goulding and Mindy Zhu look at various projects attempting to create 3D printed glass objects.

A support material you may not have heard of is VXL, and it could be the best support material available today.

Several new AM materials were announced in the past week.

BOFA International published a paper analyzing the issues surrounding emissions from active 3D printers.

During an Autodesk University session, experts demonstrated the benefits of generative design to perform part consolidation and optimize designs.

Creality is building a strong relationship with Brazil through an international space program.

BOFA announced a new device specifically designed for high temperature 3D printing.

BigRep announced an important collaboration with Teton Simulation.

Charles R. Goulding and Ryan Donley examine how 3D printing could be used in pickleball.

There are many online sources for printable 3D content, but where are they?

MakerGear announced a very different kind of 3D printer for students, the Micro 3D Printer Kit.

Sinterit announced a new SLS 3D printer, the Lisa X.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi look at the use of 3D printing by Texas A&M students.

Formlabs announced a very unusual partnership that could lead to dramatically increased quality on all of their equipment.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi look at the possibility of using digital inventory after an acquisition.

For many years, construction 3D printing has been mostly experimental or demonstrative. Now, that may be changing.

This week’s selection is “An Introduction to Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis” by J. N. Reddy.

HITRY, a team of innovators in 3D printing since 2014, recently announced the launch of Rocket 1 – the world’s first DCLF (Digital Continuous Liquid Forming) Technology 3D printer.

Wednesday is our Rapid Fire interview day, where any 3D print vendors can chat with us.

Mosaic Manufacturing announced they’re now shipping their latest hardware, the Palette 3 and Palette 3 Pro.