
SimplyColor3D Goes 2.0
SimplyColor3D has now now moved to version 2.0, and it includes a lot more features.
SimplyColor3D has now now moved to version 2.0, and it includes a lot more features.
There could be some profound implications coming for additive manufacturing, after a review of the newly announced HP Universal Build Manager, which is powered by Dyndrite.
Fusion3 has introduced a new and powerful slicing system for their 3D printers, REACTOR.
The latest update from the Fusion 360 crew has us pulling our sock over our knee-caps and throwing our hats in the air.
Three pillars of digital manufacturing updates from HP indicate the latest accelerations in automation, software, and services.
Adobe announced the coming availability of a new feature in their Capture app: Scantastic.
I’m trying out something called “SculptGL”, an online 3D sculpting tool.
What innovations in digital construction can we expect in this third decade of the 21st Century?
Artec 3D announced a new version of Artec Studio 15, the software that drives their popular handheld 3D scanners, and there’s a big surprise in this release.
Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi examine software-focused improvements that should give companies a post-pandemic advantage.
It’s been several days since Autodesk announced big changes to their Fusion 360 Personal licensing program. What reactions have occurred?
The discussion about subdivision modeling has opened up significantly since the start of this series.
This week Smart3D International announced an interesting new industrial 3D printer, the Macro. But it turns out the software for this system is even more interesting.
Dassault Systèmes has released SOLIDWORKS 2021, the latest version of the powerful 3D CAD tool.
Digital manufacturing offers a great many benefits, but only when all the pieces are in place — and that includes thorough materials traceability. As industry
Autodesk abruptly announced some significant changes in the functionality of the free version of Fusion 360, their flagship 3D design tool.
3D printing software is smartening up its slicing as Teton goes live with its first product: Smart Slice for Ultimaker Essentials.
Sintavia and Siemens have announced a three-year agreement to collaborate on end-to-end additive manufacturing software targeting digital automation.
I found what appears to be a new 3D print utility in the making: Teg.
The folks over at Onshape have been cranking out a ton of resource material across all categories.
Authentise has teamed up with Addiguru to bring in-processing monitoring into its additive manufacturing workflow.
3D across the web, devices, screens, and reality has been ramping up considerably over the last few years.
There’s a new release of Ultimaker Cura out this week, version 4.7.
Charles R. Goulding and Adam Friedman consider 3D printing software advances focused in Seattle.
Developers of Siemens NX are working to integrate mesh data for everyday CAD users.
Laan Labs has released a new LIDAR-powered 3D scanning app for the iPad Pro.
For decades, many CAD users have looked askance at data for any purpose made from point clouds, or polygonal meshes.
Good news from the folks at Gravity Sketch.
At long last Autodesk has resolved a long-standing issue with Fusion 360: the ability to easily emboss a curved surface.
You’ve got some options when you need to create graphics for assembly instructions and technical documents but when you need to create animated assembly or service instructions your options narrow quite a bit.
HP has entered into a strategic partnership with Dyndrite, underscoring the critical importance of software to the long-term success of industrial 3D printing.
There’s now at least one new app that takes advantage of Apple’s new LIDAR capability.
The 3MF Consortium is looking ahead to more adoption in 3D printing, now operating as a Linux Foundation member and with a new executive director.
The Vice President of Materialise’s software department discusses ongoing partnerships with other members of the 3D printing community to standardize machine language and bring the value of printer data to users.
Polymaker and Covestro announced a new approach for producing 3D printed textiles, and there are huge implications.
Ultimaker launched a new software product today, which they call Ultimaker Essentials.
Shapr3D has been doing a lot of ‘bringing’ to their iPadOS-based CAD app over the past three years.
Shelling a 3D model can be daunting, but nPower’s new Power Shell makes it a lot easier.
Netfabb’s latest release helps with the thankless 3D print tasks of adding and removing supports.
Get your sculpt brushes and buckets of inspiration ready. Today, Pixologic introduced ZBrushCoreMini, a free entry-level version of its ZBrushCore and ZBrush software designed to help people get started with digital sculpting.
We’ve learned Autodesk has an excellent promotion this month for their very popular Fusion 360 suite.
SketchUp, the 3D tool many of us began learning 3D concepts from, has moved to a subscription payment model.
Sigma Labs has been hard at work with its quality control solutions for metal 3D printing: the company’s CEO fills us in on major advances.
Wematter released version 2.0 of their 3D print management software, which includes a number of user interface improvements.
There might be no stranger name for a 3D print product than the Spaghetti Detective, but it’s not only appropriate, but something that should become popular in 3D printing.
JustSketchMe is a web-based app to create and pose 3D character models.
Game developer Johan Peitz posted a tweet recently with an animation of a project he’s working on called Pico CAD, an 8-bit 3D modeling tool.
I’m taking a quick look at Gen3D, a CAD tool for generating complex structures that can then be 3D printed.
A startup company has developed services to assist the transition to additive manufacturing technologies by performing a sophisticated analysis of target parts.
Artec 3D released Artec Studio 15, their latest release of 3D scanning management software, and it includes some interesting new reverse engineering features.
In the face of global supply chain shortages, it’s all hands on deck to help in the 3D printing industry — including on the software side.
I recently spoke with the folks from Dyndrite, who intend to replace the very heart of 3D printing: the 3D kernel.
What if you boil AR/VR down even further and mix common computer actions with common AR needs? Scan/Capture + Copy/Paste?
Polygonica provides a powerful set of mesh processing tools that can be embedded in any other software. We spoke to a representative to find out who uses this software.
3Diligent has announced updates to its Industry 4.0 software and services; the CEO fills us in on what these mean for procurement and manufacturing shops.
Autodesk is offering use of their powerful CAD tool, Fusion 360, at no charge for a limited time to help emergency COVID-19 efforts.
A software hack allows export of 3D data from Google Maps for use in other 3D modeling programs.
New software allows machines to be controlled through an augmented reality (AR) interface. Could this control 3D printers as well?
Dassault Systèmes introduced a new workflow to optimize generative design that is 10x faster than previous methods.
QIF is the Quality Information Framework, and additive manufacturing will see a lot more of it in the future.
PTC has revealed details of the latest Creo release, Creo 7.0, available on April 14.
Josef Prusa dropped some big hints about their upcoming 3D printer farm software and we speculate on what’s to come next.
Simplify3D has still not released their long-awaited version 5 upgrade. We asked their CEO about the delay.
Some providers of 3D software are adapting their products to allow more easy work-at-home activities.
Autodesk surprised everyone by suddenly adding a way to slice 3D print jobs directly within their popular Fusion 360. But is it something you will use?
Ultimaker has released a new version of Ultimaker Cura 4.5, and as usual there are a couple of very interesting new features.
MiniFactory’s new software produces a very useful report for each 3D print that may be important for clients. We had a close look at one.
Ultimaker announced some startling statistics gathered from everyone’s use of their very popular Ultimaker Cura 3D print slicing system.
Additive Flow has unveiled a new generative design tool for additive manufacturing that has the unique ability to handle solutions for materials and mechanical design simultaneously.
Teton Simulation has now integrated their FEA algorithm directly into Ultimaker Cura, vastly simplifying and empowering 3D printing workflows.
Autodesk has revealed that Fusion 360 now includes ECAD functionality.
You would think this article is from a decade or two ago, but no. It’s really about dual-screen and CAD software using dual-screens… but not like you’re used to.
The company’s main product is VCollab, a solution created to make the results of engineering simulation more easily shared and understood.
If you’re a user of Fusion 360, your subscription now includes access to Autodesk EAGLE, the electronic design automation software to aid schematic layout or determine PCB routing and component placement.
Simplify3D says they will issue the long-awaited version 5 of their powerful slicing software in 2020. It’s now 2020, and what can we expect?
You might value the perfect simulation model, striving for perfection—an engineering ideal if ever there was one.
Alphastar’s Genoa 3DP Suite provides a wide range of advanced 3D model simulation functions to ensure more accurate and reliable additive manufacturing jobs.
Ultimaker released a new version of Ultimaker Cura 3D printer slicing software that includes a very intriguing new feature: Intent Profiles.
Prusa Research seems to be taking aim at capturing the crown of 3D model repositories from Thingiverse with the help of a one-touch import tool.
nTopology released the latest version of their nTop Platform software, 2.0, and it seems to include some incredibly powerful built-in toolkits.
A Chrome Extension, Thingiverse++, can supercharge your Thingiverse 3D model browsing and download experience.
VELO3D announced a very sophisticated quality control system called Assure that should enable 3D print operators to easily dial in to optimal 3D printing parameters.
Learning CAD? How about starting with modeling an entire Boeing 747? Yes, that actually happened.
Is it possible to know what happened inside a completed 3D print? Yes, you can with Minifactory’s Aarni quality control tool.
Lockheed Martin agreed to make use of Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Why did they do so and what benefits might they incur? We speculate.
Autodesk is expanding its Fusion 360 repertoire by adding extensions.
Charles Goulding and Greer Veon of R&D Tax Savers examine the cloud-based Onshape platform in the 3D printing workflow.
What new features are found in COMSOL Multiphysics 5.5? We have a list of new features in the CAD optimization tool.
It will no longer be as easy to obtain a free license of Autodesk Fusion 360 CAD software with new requirements for qualification.
Stratasys is unveiling a new Digital Anatomy portfolio to offer targeted functionality in healthcare 3D printing.
It’s September 2019, and that means SOLIDWORKS 2020 is here.
A new version of Ultimaker Cura has been released: 4.3 includes a number of 3D print quality improvements and a magical feature everyone will use.
As 3D printing continues to industrialize, quality management and traceability are increasingly in focus — and that’s just what TRACE software offers.
What is Standard Cyborg all about? We talked to Co-Founder and CEO Jeff Huber to learn more about the 3D vision and scanning startup.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: the annual update of SOLIDWORKS is out.
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Welcome to Fabbaloo, one of the world’s oldest online news sources for 3D printing news. We’ve been in operation since 2007, where we first started examining the state of 3D printers. These devices are now relatively common among some circles in today’s world, but years ago it was extremely rare to see a 3D printer or even a 3D printed object.
At that time it was challenging to find any 3D printing news, so we decided to make our own site that covered 3D printer news, and even associated technologies like 3D scanning and 3D modeling. Today it is common to find 3D printers in schools, workshops and makerspaces, and you probably have been using 3D printed objects without even knowing they were 3D printed.
Today’s industry has finally taken up the challenge by installing thousands of industrial 3D printers, each producing previously impossible 3D printed parts that make today’s society far more efficient. The aerospace industry in particular has been producing many 3D printed parts, some even for flight critical purposes.
If you want to learn about 3D printers, then there’s no better place than Fabbaloo’s 3D printer news to see the latest happenings.
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