3D Printing Blog

Now here’s a new take on resin 3D printing: full automation, on the desktop.

Charles R. Goulding and Aaron Rofe reveal how the same 3D printing breakthroughs reshaping pickleball and tennis are poised to revolutionize padel equipment as the sport rapidly expands across the U.S.

A new PETG dataset and codebase looks to make FFF strength prediction more accurate.

This week’s selection is the Holy Trinity Church and Cardinal Josef Beran Community Centre by architect Zdeněk Fránek.

A curious cluster of Bambu Lab patent applications has suddenly appeared.

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 discuss how recent innovations from Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney, and the Army are creating new pathways to overcome legacy engine part shortages through advanced manufacturing.

A new CAD option has appeared, and it’s all focused around AI capabilities.

BMW is investing further in additive manufacturing, and that seems like a normal thing to do.

Volumetric 3D printing has a heat problem, and researchers may have found a way around it.

What if a color 3D printer could print two layers at once without doubling its number of printheads?

Additive Industries seems to want to make its LPBF print beds into a collection of smaller machines.

E3D announced a licensing program for their high-flow extrusion technology: FlowCore.

There’s a browser app that lets you design a building and then figures out how to 3D print it.

It turns out that FFF printed dovetail joints are not always the strongest way to join multi-material parts.

Charles R. Goulding and Kate Esposito examine how additive manufacturing is making custom hard contact lenses faster, more affordable, and accessible for millions of patients.

LLNL is making a metal powder bed fusion machine print like an MSLA resin system.

There’s now a free 3D model site intended for car parts: PrintYourVehicle.

We now have a revealing look at a possible new Creality product called "Hyperfeed".

MX3D announced the achievement of an important certification.

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi explain how renewed investment in U.S. shipbuilding is laying the foundation for a stronger defense supply chain powered by advanced manufacturing and industrial 3D printing.

Creality wants to heat the middle of the filament instead of waiting for heat to work its way inward from the walls.

There have been persistent rumours of Bambu Lab introducing a 3D scanner, and now there is some public evidence that the rumours are true.

Wondermaker 3D has finally launched their tool-changing multicolor 3D printer on Kickstarter.

Material extrusion often has a problem: the 3D printer can appear to be working perfectly while actually building a failed part.

After six articles and several days at McCormick Place, Charles R. Goulding reflects on the people, technologies and ideas that made IMTS 2026 a memorable manufacturing event.

What if you moved the extruder motor off FFF printhead?

A #3DBenchy has been produced on the RepRap Micron.

Polymaker has introduced an entirely new material: CoPE.

Some news from Xolo: they want to go into outer space!

This week’s selection is the Black Hole Lamp by Printables contributor NAM_3.

What if a dual-hotend 3D printer could switch nozzles without carrying around another motor?

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

Charles R. Goulding takes readers inside IMTS 2026’s booming additive manufacturing section, where Nikon SLM, Renishaw and Farsoon demonstrate how 3D printing is moving from prototypes to sophisticated end-use production.

After the announcement of the Bambu Lab / Stratasys patent infringement case, there are some implications.

A new UK-based startup is to launch a hybrid machine that includes not only resin and FFF 3D printing, but also post-processing, CNC milling, and more.

A single colored line may be too little color.

Creality launched orders for their new Sparkx i8 3D printer.

A metal 3D printer patent from Divergent Technologies proposes using changing magnetic fields to stir the melt pool and break up structures that can become pores or cracks.

Two veteran American 3D printer manufacturers seem to be finding remarkably similar ways to stay in business.

A very interesting new 3D printing company has emerged from MIT, but there may be more going on here than first appears.

What if the heated bed were designed around its heater, instead of simply having a heater stuck underneath it?

Charles R. Goulding takes readers inside HERMLE’s exciting IMTS 2026 showcase, highlighting the company’s latest machining and additive manufacturing technologies and discovering why there’s plenty to look forward to from HERMLE.

Could an old recipe for making classroom models turn into a material for 3D printed construction?

A purge tower usually looks like a boring chunk of plastic beside the part. Stratasys is proposing something a lot more organized.

Someone stole a batch of 3D printers in Calgary, Canada.

Prusa has introduced a lightweight filament, but the strange part is that it’s still PLA.

Charles R. Goulding explains what happens when a global automaker turns 3D printing from a prototyping tool into a standardized manufacturing capability, like Stratasys and GM are demonstrating.

A carbon dot filled PLA filament has shown a potentially useful combination of better mechanical behavior and steadier dielectric performance in FFF printed test parts.

Snapmaker announced an intriguing new hot end for their U1 series: the Liber.