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Staples and Sculpteo Partner On 3D Print Services

Consumer service giant Staples has made a deal with Sculpteo to enable Staples customers to obtain professional quality 3D prints.

WEISTEK Launches World’s Fastest Desktop 3D Printer

China-based WEISTEK has launched what they call the world’s fastest desktop 3D printer; They may be right.

China Set for 3D Printed Hip Joint Mass Production, and The West May Suffer For It

China’s State Food and Drug Administration recently approved use of 3D printed artificial hip joints, opening up the possibility of mass production. And some other effects, too.

Sinterit Announces the Sinterit Lisa

Poland-based Sinterit is set to announce the Lisa, a low-cost sintering 3D printer.

Could Self-Healing Plastic Be 3D Printed?

A curious new plastic can heal itself in water, but could this be used in a 3D printer? Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania examined squid teeth, which have a very unusual property: they can heal themselves, even when submerged in water. Here’s the interesting part: the researchers were able to determine which genes controlled… Continue reading Could Self-Healing Plastic Be 3D Printed?

The World’s Biggest 3D Printer Under Construction

Italy-based WASP is readying their ultimate 3D printer: a 12m printer intended to print entire homes.

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.

Hands On With 3Dconnexion’s SpaceMouse Pro Wireless – And a Special Offer For You!

We’ve been secretly testing 3DConnexion’s incredible SpaceMouse Pro Wireless for the past few weeks and it’s time to tell you how we fared. Short version: Excellent!

Hands On With The XTC-3D Smoothing System

We got dirty with XTC-3D, a 3D print smoothing resin. The results are very shiny.

Afinia’s New ES360 Desktop 3D Scanner

Afinia announced the ES360 3D Scanner that offers a unique two-way scanning technique.

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.

Is This 3D Road Asphalt Printer Going To Work?

We’re looking at a strange project to develop an asphalt roadway3D printing device. But will it work?

MIT’s Fab Forms Pre-Tests 3D Model Variations

Researchers at MIT have developed “Fab Forms”, a system that pre-tests thousands of variations of a 3D model to simplify end user design.

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.

Design of the Week: Finger Wrench

This week’s selection is the incredibly useful Finger Wrench by YouMagine contributor and 3D print enthusiast Franc Falco.

Stratasys’ Huge Step Into Digital Orthodontics

Stratasys made a huge move this week, disguised as a 3D printer announcement.

Rigid.ink Is Feeding Their 3D Print Filament Customers

It seems that filament manufacturers are going all-out to make customers happy.

Simplify3D Expands to Support Many More 3D Printers

Independent slicing software maker Simplify3D has upgraded their product to now be compatible with around 200 different 3D printers.

Fabbaloo Visits Pasadena With 3D Printshow

We’re heading to sunny California this week to visit others in the 3D printing industry at the west coast 3D Printshow.

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.

3D Systems May Be Readying A New Color 3D Printer

If you want high-quality full-color RGB continuous color 3D prints, one of the premiere options is 3D Systems’ ProJet series. But now an unusual message may indicate something may be changing.

Stratasys and Fabbaloo Partner On A Contest

3D printing industry giant Stratasys is partnering with Fabbaloo to offer a challenge for our readers. Read on and you might find yourself able to enter.

Design of the Week: Eco-Water and Water Supply Storage

This week’s selection is the fascinating and practical Eco-Water and Water Supply Storage by Baptiste Godard.

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.

How To Quickly Model and 3D Print Small Household Objects

New 3D printer owners might be having fun printing pre-designed 3D models, but what if you need to produce a custom object on demand? Here’s how to do it.

MakerBot Continues To Probe Professional 3D Printing Applications

When MakerBot was born some years ago, the focus was entirely on personal 3D printing; now that’s changed.

Design of the Week: Raspberry Pie Case

This week’s selection is the tasty-looking Raspberry Pie Case by designer Marco Valenzuela.

NASA’s Ever-Increasing Library of 3D Models

Did you know that US space agency NASA offers a formidable set of 3D models available for 3D printing?

Biomimetics 3D Printing Challenge Now Open

Crowdsourced innovation service Innonatives has posted a challenge seeking “radical ideas” on how to combine biomimetics and 3D printing for sustainability.

The Beast: A 3D Printer That Really Is One

A soon-to-be-launched on Kickstarter project promises to produce a truly massive desktop 3D printer.

More On Gartner’s 3D Printing Predictions

Gartner 3D printing analyst Pete Basiliere pointed us at their company’s latest detailed report on 3D printing and it shows some interesting predictions.

FABtotum Combines Two 3D Printing Processes – and More!

FABTotum launched a new making option, the PRISM, which enables their Personal Fabricator to include multiple 3D printing processes.

Microsoft Developing Mobile 3D Scanning Technology – For Any Smartphone!

A paper from Oxford and Microsoft researchers details an experimental workflow enabling capture of 3D models using only a smartphone’s camera.

The LumiPocket LT: More Than Just a 3D Printer

Lumi Industries has launched a new inexpensive 3D printer that can do more than 3D printing: the LumiPocket LT.

Should You Purchase a 3D Printer From A Reseller?

There are multiple ways to purchase a 3D printer these days, and often at low cost. One way is to use a reseller, particularly for unusual makes and models.

Design of the Week: VOXEL Chair

This week’s selection is the very unusual VOXEL chair by designer Joshua Sellini.

MIT’s 3D Glass Printer Raises Questions

Researchers at MIT unveiled an incredible new 3D printing process that uses glass as the print material. We’re asking some questions about its capabilities.

UK’s Gary Miller Resurfaces With New 3D Print Service

Longtime Fabbaloo friend Gary Miller has emerged with a new company: 3D Print Bureau.

Carbon3D Scores USD$100M To Make 3D Manufacturing a “Reality”. But It Already Is!

Startup Carbon3D, inventors of the CLIP 3D printing process, just received no less than USD$100M in investment, leading TechCrunch to declare this will make 3D manufacturing a reality. This is misleading.

3DOM’s New Coffee-Flavored 3D Printer Filament Opens Up Possibilities For Unusual Materials

3DOM announced a new 3D printer filament made from coffee grounds. Yes, really, and it actually makes sense. But there’s likely a lot more interesting things to come.

Jazz Musician Needs 3D Printing Assistance

Musician Paul Hirsch has been developing a new type of “wholetone-tuned panpipe”, but now requires assistance to determine how to 3D print them in production form.

Another MeshMixer Update For You To Download

Autodesk has released another update to their increasingly useful (and free) MeshMixer 3D utility.

Full-Size Tyrannosaurus Rex Repaired by 3D Printing

Leiden, Netherlands will be the new home for a full-sized Tyrannosaurus rex in 2016, with the assistance of 3D printing technology.

Dicing Up The Inside of a 3D Model With MeshMixer

We’ve been experimenting with some of MeshMixer’s lesser-known but highly powerful capabilities to create a hidden internal mesh for solid models.

Talk With Your 3D Clients With talk3D

Another business-oriented 3D cloud service is preparing for launch: talk3D.

Cubify Now Sells Nylon 3D Print Material

3D Systems announced the availability of nylon material cartridges for use in their CubePro line of professional desktop 3D printers.

TNT Germany Teams with trinckle 3D

Delivery services giant TNT has partnered with Berlin-based trinckle 3D to provide 3D print services to their clients.

Gartner’s 2015 Predictions on 3D Printing

We’ve examined Gartner’s annual Hype Cycle chart with respect to 3D printing and found some very promising news.

3D Printing Community To Print Many Hands

e-NABLE has launched a new project to produce as many 3D printed hand kits for amputees as possible during the next month.

Design of the Week: Curiosity Rover

This week’s selection is NASA’s amazingly detailed 3D model of their distant Curiosity Rover.

BigBox’s Big Blastoff

A few weeks ago we wrote on the launch of BigBox, an incredibly powerful desktop 3D printer; Now it seems they’ve smashed their funding targets to smithereens.

Sorkin Joins Formlabs, Leaves iGo3D and Much More

Michael Sorkin, one of the founders of the European-based iGo3D retail 3D print chain, has joined Formlabs. What does this mean?

Biodegradable ABS 3D Printer Filament?

We’re looking at an offering from 3DPrintLife, who now sell a peculiar bio-friendly version of ABS plastic they call “Enviro”.

Astroprint Adds Connectivity

Cloud 3D print management service Astroprint has been busy adding capabilities to their already-popular service.

3devo Launches the NEXT 1.0 Filament Recycler

Utrecht-based 3devo’s new filament extruder is now available on their crowdfunding page, but will it be practical?

WillowFlex: Flexible, Friendly Filament

Berlin-based BioInspiration has produced a new flexible 3D printer filament that has an unusual property: it’s compostable.

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.

A 2D Reseller in a 3D World

At a recent training session at the MakerBot headquarters in Brooklyn, NY, I happen to sit next to Vincent Colaianni, the Director of Sales Development at TGI Office Automation, a leading office technology provider that has been in business over 50 years.