Consumer service giant Staples has made a deal with Sculpteo to enable Staples customers to obtain professional quality 3D prints.
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MyMiniFactory’s Fascinating Crowdfunding Campaign
MyMiniFactory recently launched a very interesting crowdfunding campaign, but it’s quite unlike others we’ve seen in the 3D print world.
MakePrintable’s GCODE Feature Could Cause Issues For Some
Another MakePrintable story? Yes, because they’ve developed a feature that could shake things up in the intellectual property space.
Hands On With MakePrintable
MakePrintable is a new, freemium cloud service for repairing 3D models. We gave it a good test.
MakePrintable Developing Cloud-Based 3D Model Repair Service
A new cloud-based 3D model repair service, MakePrintable is in the works, and it may become quite popular based on its functionality and extensibility.
i.Materialise Offers Black Steel 3D Prints and Lowers Pricing
Popular consumer-oriented 3D print service i.Materialise just added a very interesting new material: Black Steel.
Microsoft Teams with netfabb In The Cloud
Microsoft and netfabb announced a partnership to extend their 3D print cloud services.
Powerful New Features in Onshape
Web-based 3D CAD service Onshape continues to add new features and fixes almost weekly, but recently a very powerful feature was added: DXF and DWG import.
3D Hubs Also Offers Student Discounts
This week we explained Shapeways’ recent announcement of discounted services for students. It turns out 3D Hubs also provides a similar program.
3D Hubs Trend Report For September
3D Hubs has issued its latest trends report on their view of 3D printer use. We noticed some interesting patterns.
Shapeways Preps For School Business
It’s the beginning of school season in many parts of the world, and Shapeways announced special deals for the education market.
UK’s Gary Miller Resurfaces With New 3D Print Service
Longtime Fabbaloo friend Gary Miller has emerged with a new company: 3D Print Bureau.
Talk With Your 3D Clients With talk3D
Another business-oriented 3D cloud service is preparing for launch: talk3D.
Astroprint Adds Connectivity
Cloud 3D print management service Astroprint has been busy adding capabilities to their already-popular service.
Xometry Seeks Low Volume 3D Prints
We’ve been looking at a new 3D print service that has been running for only 1.5 years: Xometry.
3Diligent’s Professional 3D Print Service Service
We’re checking out 3Diligent, a service that helps connect industry to professional 3D part printing services.
3D Hubs Now Covers The World, Almost
3D Hubs issued its latest monthly trends report today, and the biggest thing we noted in the report is the incredibly wide geographic coverage by their network.
Copyright Controversy Erupts Over Site’s Use of 3D Model
Recently we wrote of a newly encountered 3D model repository, dayin.la, which holds plenty of interesting 3D content, but now it seems the site has used some models without permission.
One & Only 3D Printed Jewelry
A Toronto-based startup hopes to capture some of the 3D printed jewelry market.
3D Hubs Hits Key Milestone: 20,000 3D Printers
Yesterday community 3D printing network 3D Hubs apparently hit the incredible milestone of 20,000 participants.
Skyforge: Cloud-Based 3D Print Management For Industry and Institutions
We spoke with Element Robot’s CEO, Chris Walker, about their cloud-based 3D print management system.
Authentise Releases Cloud 3D Print Service 3DIAX
Authentise launched their new 3DIAX service, which should make life much easier for larger organizations using 3D printing.
ToyZeroPlus Puts Your Head On Toys With Fuel3D
Hong Kong-based ToyZeroPlus provides amazingly high-quality 3D replicas of scanned faces.
Could Amazon Challenge Shapeways, Sculpteo and Other 3D Print Services?
Recent additions to Amazon’s growing 3D marketplace could indicate trouble ahead for current popular 3D print services.
3D Hubs Teleports Into Yet Another 3D Environment: Cults
3D model repository Cults announced a partnership with 3D Hubs that involves integrating the community 3D printing network directly into Cults’ repository.
Free 3D Models Of The Martian Surface Available
NASA has published a very useful Mars exploration tool, MarsTrek, which happens to also provide 3D model download, too.
Capcom Moves to 3D Printing for New Cover Art
Capcom, makers of many notable video games over the past 32 years, now makes use of 3D printing to bring a spotlight on their new game, Street Fighter V.
Amazon’s 3D Printed Figurine Service
Amazon’s 3D print marketplace now includes a number of highly-detailed 3D printed figurines of characters from popular video games.
3DPrinterOS Hits Milestone Twice As Fast As 3D Hubs
3D printing cloud service 3DPrinterOS hit a big milestone: they now have over 2,000 participating 3D printers in their growing network.
3D Printed Food for the Elderly?
A report on Capital Technologies describes a venture to provide 3D printed food for seniors. We’re a bit skeptical.
Shapeways Gets More Cash. Lots More Cash
3D print service Shapeways has completed another round of investment, this time totaling USD$30M.
3DCADemy To Offer Training in 3D
Toronto-based 3DCADemy is preparing to offer training in 3D skills to interested parties.
This New 3D Print Service is Fully Optimized
A new 3D print service hopes to raise the bar for part quality and delivery: CloudDDM.
Minichua’s Customizable 3D Printed Dogs
Finally there’s a way to easily create 3D printed dogs!
3DPrinterOS Expands Ecosystem Into Facebook With SketchFab
Two cloud ventures have partnered to create a bigger cloud: 3DPrinterOS and SketchFab can now easily push 3DPrinterOS 3D models to Facebook.
MakerOS Simplifies Everything For 3D Print Professionals
There’s a growing number of people making their living from 3D printing, and now cloud service MakerOS by Manulith can make life a lot easier.
Cloud-Based 3D Printed Part Stress Analysis Available
Is that part you just designed really going to survive the stress of the machine into which it will be installed? Now there’s an easy way to find out.
Argillasys Launches New 3D Printed Ceramics Service
A new 3D print service has launched that specializes in ceramics: Argillasys.
Formide OS Open Sourced
Netherlands-based Printr, the folks behind the slick “Element” 3D printer controller, have open sourced some of their software stack.
3D Button Hopes You’ll Press It
A German startup has developed a potentially universal “button” to print 3D content.
MyMiniFactory Launches Another Service
We’ve written several stories on MyMiniFactory in recent days, and now there’s another one: the company has launched a peculiar idea validator.
3DPrinterOS’ Opensource Move Could Challenge MakerBot
In a bid to gain market share, 3DPrinterOS has publicly released the code for their multi-platform 3D printing client, and there are some big implications.
MyMiniFactory’s Meticulous Method
We recently visited MyMiniFactory headquarters in London where were quite surprised to see the scope of their operations.
You Invent Brings 3D Printing to Students
A new venture in the UK has developed a package for easily launching 3D printing clubs for students.
3DFilemarket Bets on 3D Print Streaming
Most source of 3D content for 3D printing simply sell you a 3D model, but that’s not 3DFilemarket’s strategy. They’re betting on print streaming.
3D Printing By The Gram?
A new crowdfunding campaign is attempting what they believe to be a new business model: printing by the gram. We’re not so sure it’s new.
PrintParts is Recruiting Makers – And is Giving Away a 3D Printer
New York-based PrintParts is about to launch a network of 3D printers and hopes you’ll join their community.
MyMiniFactory Introduces MMF Connect
MyMiniFactory launched MMF Connect, an online service designed to connect people in the 3D printing community.
Battle of the 3D CAD Systems
Autodesk jiggered the features on their subscription CAD service, Fusion 360. Why did they do so?
Kwamb.io Attempts a Familiar Business Model
3D print streaming site Kwamb.io is developing a new 3D printer that has a very familiar business model.
3D Hubs Deepens Its Ecosystem with a New API
3D Hubs announced a new API that enables any website to connect to their 3D printing network. We think this is a key strategy for them.
Lowe’s Innovation Labs Gets 3D Printing
North American hardware retail giant Lowe’s has set up a way for customers to 3D print customized products.
Print a Thing’s Community 3D Printing Network
Another 3D printing network has emerged: Print a Thing.
Shapeways Brings in a Familiar Feature
Shapeways announced the ability to resize 3D models for printing. Wait, they didn’t have that before?
3DPrinterOS Partners with Rapide 3D
An interesting deal was announced today: 3DPrinterOS is to be bundled with Rapide 3D printers, providing a powerful way to manage the machines.
A Review of Autodesk’s Tinkerplay
Autodesk have been making a big push into the 3D printing software space, mostly with free software like the fantastic Meshmixer.
3D Slash Provides an Easy Way to Produce 3D Models
Looking for a way to easily create 3D models? You might check out 3D Slash.
3D Shook’s All You Can Eat 3D Models
Tired of searching the usual repositories for great 3D models? 3D Shook has an offer we think you might like.
3D Hubs Makes Another Big Connection
Last week 3D Hubs announced a deal with SketchFab. This week it’s with Thingiverse.
MyMiniFactory’s Offering a Gift to Participate
Need another spool of 3D printer filament? You might want to check out MyMiniFactory’s latest offer.
Making 3D Hubs Better
3D printing community network 3D Hubs has been extraordinarily successful, but how could they get even better?
Additively’s Additively Application
One of the most annoying aspects of using 3D parts printing services is the tedious process of requesting quotes. Now that problem seems to be solved.
SketchFab and 3D Hubs Team Up on a Button
This is quite interesting: the unlikely duo of SketchFab and 3D Hubs have teamed up to create a rather powerful but tiny button.
MeltWerk’s 3D Print Pricing Breakthrough
A new 3D print service claims to reduce the price of 3D prints by 85%. Is this true?
3DPrinterOS Update
We’ve been quietly testing the cloud-based 3DPrinterOS recently and asked the company to tell us the latest developments.
Voovo’s 3D Print and Model Service
Canadian operation Voovo hopes to provide a different method of accessing 3D print services.
Imagine 3D Miniatures
Did you know there’s a service where you can customize 3D printable gaming miniatures?
3D Printed Metal Pricing Analysis
A reader recently asked us how much it would cost to print an item in metal. We said, “Lots”, but there’s more to the story.
3D Hubs Available on ALL Instructables!
Community 3D printing network 3D Hubs has swung a sweet deal with Instructables: every 3D model on Instructables now can be sent directly to 3D Hubs.
A Look at Onshape
A relatively recent newcomer to the CAD world, Onshape is riding the waves of Cloud computing and aims to set the standard of industrial and product design of the future.
MakerBot’s Ready Apps
MakerBot has formalized their “customizer” capability in Thingiverse in a collection of “ready to go” applications that can quickly generate specific 3D models.
Hands On With Smoothie-3D
To truly exploit 3D printing technology you need to be able to make your own models.
What is Senvol and Why Should You Hire Them?
We spoke with a leading 3D printing / additive manufacturing consulting company to determine the questions industry asks about the technology.
ProtoCrate Offers Monthly Filament
Startup ProtoCrate now offers a “filament of the month” subscription service.
New 3D Print Service Focuses On Fossils
PaleoPrint, fledgling 3D print service, hopes to capture the market for 3D printed fossils.
3D Share Offers Free and Paid Models for Printing
A new 3D model service hopes to offer something for both designers and consumers of 3D models.
GrabCAD Workbench Now Free!
GrabCAD’s excellent Workbench product is now available for free, disposing of previous monthly fees.
Matter and Form’s Tabletop Scanner
Matter and Form’s 3D scanner remains popular, but the company hopes to do even more.
Massive 3D Printed Nautical Jaguar
Materialize has put their monstrously huge stereolithography printer to work producing a 3D printed jaguar for a yacht.
Another 3D Print Network: PrintThis4Me
Yet another 3D printer community network has emerged, PrintThis4Me.
Printr’s Powerful Element 3D Printer Controller
Netherlands startup Printr launched a combination hardware-software-cloud solution that could add very powerful features to your 3D printer.
Things are Getting Dark at Digits2Widgets
3D print service Digits2Widgets has found a way to produce spectacularly black prints.
Thingiverse’s Groups Make Finding Models Much Easier
Thingiverse’s new Groups feature could vastly simplify use of the leading printable 3D model repository.
Yobi3D Meta-Searches For 3D Models
A search service provides a very easy way to find great 3D models for printing.
NightHawk: The First Mass Produced Headphone Component From Sculpteo
AudioQuest and Sculpteo have teamed up to bring us the first mass produced headphones containing a 3D printed component.
Sculpteo Launches FinalProof
Sculpteo launched FinalProof at CES 2015, the first realistic 3D printing preview feature.
3D Heights Academy to Provide Online 3D Printing Training
A new project hopes to bring 3D print training to the masses with an online academy.
MakerBot’s Innovation Center
You may have heard something about it, but what exactly is the “MakerBot Innovation Center”?
3D Printable Scenery for Gaming
Need a stone wall for your Warhammer game? There’s a store you should check out: Printable Scenery.
Parfait Printing Provides Color Prints
Your Wild World, a curiously named 3D printing startup, hopes to deliver multicolor 3D prints on your existing personal 3D printer.
Hands On With uformit’s Personalized 3D Print Service
We spent some time testing the new uformit generative 3D model service and found some amazing results.
Renting a 3D Printer? Is This Possible?
A startup company in Denver, USA now offers short-term rentals of personal 3D printers.
Spyder 3D World’s Content and Printing Services
We’re checking out a new 3D model and print service, Spyder 3D World.
Toyze Puts Game Characters in Your Hands
Want a game character? You probably don’t have the 3D model to print one with, but Toyze can help you out.
Three (Or More) New 3D Figurine Services
We noticed three new 3D printed figurine services, but we think there’s a lot more than just three.