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Does 3D Printer Nozzle Quality Affect Results?

Does 3D Printer Nozzle Quality Affect Results?

I’m reading an interesting Twitter thread where two 3D printer nozzles are compared for quality.

How Is 3D Printing Improving The Manufacturing Industry?

How Is 3D Printing Improving The Manufacturing Industry?

3D printing has become a staple in industries throughout the world.

3D Printing Chess Sets

3D Printing Chess Sets

Charles R. Goulding and Peter Favata consider 3D printing as part of a logical gambit.

KeyShot 3MF Support Offers Full-Color 3D Prints

KeyShot 3MF Support Offers Full-Color 3D Prints

The 3D Manufacturing Format (3MF) file type is about to go prime-time owing to KeyShot and Stratasys.

Prusa Slides Out Slightly Improved Desktop 3D Printers

Prusa Slides Out Slightly Improved Desktop 3D Printers

Prusa Research announced they’ve upgraded their current lineup of desktop 3D printers — but only slightly.

3DPrinterOS’ New Platform: 3D Control Systems

3DPrinterOS’ New Platform: 3D Control Systems

A relatively quiet announcement from the folks at 3DPrinterOS reveals some very big changes for the company.

Makers Are Still 3D Printing PPE

Makers Are Still 3D Printing PPE

It’s fallen out of the headlines since the spring, but individual makers remain hard at work at their home 3D printers making pandemic protection gear.

Mahdi Naim Partners With Satori On 3D Printed Work-From-Home Tools

Mahdi Naim Partners With Satori On 3D Printed Work-From-Home Tools

Satori announced a partnership with Mahdi Name Design Lab to produce a series of 3D printed work-from-home tools.

Two Industrial Giants Announce 3D Printing Partnership

Two Industrial Giants Announce 3D Printing Partnership

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi examine a new 3D printing partnership between WĂŒrth and Baker Hughes.

Sculpteo Adds Four Green BASF Engineering Materials

Sculpteo Adds Four Green BASF Engineering Materials

Sculpteo has added several new materials to their portfolio as a result of their relationship with BASF.

Step-By-Step In Ceramic 3D Printing With 3DCeram

Step-By-Step In Ceramic 3D Printing With 3DCeram

Ceramic 3D printing has a lot to offer applications from aerospace and biomedical to industry, but adoption can be a sticking point.

Authentise Brings In The Digital Twin With nebumind Integration

Authentise Brings In The Digital Twin With nebumind Integration

Authentise continues to expand its additive manufacturing workflow, introducing an integration of nebumind’s digital twin tools.

Ear-y Developments In 3D Printing And R&D

Ear-y Developments In 3D Printing And R&D

Charles Goulding Jr. takes a look at bioprinting developments targeting the complex ear.

Book of the Week: Materials Selection In Mechanical Design

Book of the Week: Materials Selection In Mechanical Design

This week’s selection is “Materials Selection In Mechancial Design” by Michael F. Ashby.

Meltio Announces Hybrid Manufacturing Option

Meltio Announces Hybrid Manufacturing Option

Meltio announced the “Meltio Engine”, a hardware upgrade for CNC equipment to combine additive and subtractive manufacturing capabilities.

What Happens To Those 3D Printing PPE Factories?

What Happens To Those 3D Printing PPE Factories?

In the spring several 3D printer manufacturers set up “pop up” factories to rapidly produce PPE for the pandemic. But what happens afterwards?

3D Printing’s Pandemic Call To Action

3D Printing’s Pandemic Call To Action

COVID-19 took the healthcare system by storm (and surprise). We had little time to prepare and lots of lives at stake. 3D printing is trying to balance the playing field by…

3D Printing Concrete

3D Printing Concrete

Charles R. Goulding and Peter Favata take a look at concrete 3D printing for various uses.

Design of the Week: 3D Printed Diorama

Design of the Week: 3D Printed Diorama

This week’s selection is the detailed 3D printed “A Mother’s Joy” diorama by Michael Mandau.

Major Development: Researchers Find Method To Predict Resin Performance

Major Development: Researchers Find Method To Predict Resin Performance

In an incredible experiment, researchers were able to simulate the molecular behavior of 3D printing resins.

The Mysterious Seurat Metal 3D Printer

The Mysterious Seurat Metal 3D Printer

I’ve been investigating the rather quiet company Seurat Technologies, which is developing a new metal 3D printing process.

Geothermal To 3D Printing: You’re Grounded

Geothermal To 3D Printing: You’re Grounded

Charles Goulding Jr considers how geothermal energy might come together with growth in 3D printing.

Xact Metal Makes Copper 3D Printing Inexpensive

Xact Metal Makes Copper 3D Printing Inexpensive

Xact Metal has adapted their inexpensive metal 3D printer technology to enable the use of copper material.

COBOD 3D Printer Building Three-Floor Apartment

COBOD 3D Printer Building Three-Floor Apartment

COBOD announced their partner is using the BOD2 construction 3D printer to build a three-story apartment building in Germany.

German RepRap’s Silicone Journey

German RepRap’s Silicone Journey

I spoke with German RepRap’s Andrea Berneker to learn how they have been deploying their silicone LAM process.

Bullish on the CAE Market: Tech Soft 3D Acquires Visual Kinematics

Bullish on the CAE Market: Tech Soft 3D Acquires Visual Kinematics

Engineering software toolkit provider Tech Soft 3D has acquired California-based Visual Kinematics (VKI). VKI develops a suite of software development kits (SDKs) called DevTools for computer aided engineering (CAE) applications.

Mosaic Manufacturing Sells Materials?

Mosaic Manufacturing Sells Materials?

I just read a press release from Mosaic Manufacturing announcing a new product: filaments!

Relativity Space Raises A Half Billion!

Relativity Space Raises A Half Billion!

Rocket-maker Relativity Space is about to collect a whopping US$500M in a Series D raise.

U.S. Supply Chain Bottlenecks And 3D Printing

U.S. Supply Chain Bottlenecks And 3D Printing

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi consider further solutions 3D printing can offer to major supply chains in the face of ongoing disruption.

Desktop Metal’s Shop System Is Out In The World

Desktop Metal’s Shop System Is Out In The World

Desktop Metal’s mid-volume metal 3D printing offering, the Shop System, is now shipping globally.

BeYou Chair Lets You Sit Anyway Way You Like

BeYou Chair Lets You Sit Anyway Way You Like

Have you ever sat on a chair and thought, “Man, I wish there was a more comfortable place to sit”?

Titan Robotics Partners With Jabil For Advanced Materials

Titan Robotics Partners With Jabil For Advanced Materials

Titan Robotics beefed up their production 3D printing offerings with a new partnership with Jabil.

3D Printing With 100% Recycled Powder

3D Printing With 100% Recycled Powder

Materialise has introduced Bluesint PA12, enabling 3D printing with 100% recycled powder.

Creality Launches Second Kickstarter Campaign With Revolutionary 3D Printer

Creality Launches Second Kickstarter Campaign With Revolutionary 3D Printer

Creality launched what could be their largest crowdfunded product ever, the 3DPrintMill.

The $9.5 Billion Columbia Submarine Contract And 3D Printing

The $9.5 Billion Columbia Submarine Contract And 3D Printing

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi examine the increasing role of additive manufacturing in Navy submarines.

Julia Baldyga: “A Race Car Cannot Afford To Carry More Weight Than Is Absolutely Necessary”

Smart International Shifting Gears

Smart International Shifting Gears

Smart International is now a long way from the days of their KODAK Portrait system.

The Origin And Current State Of Slice Engineering

The Origin And Current State Of Slice Engineering

I had a chat with Slice Engineering’s Daniel Barousse.

Cobra Golf Tees Up With Metal Jet 3D Printing

Cobra Golf Tees Up With Metal Jet 3D Printing

HP’s Metal Jet 3D printing is taking a swing on the greens via Cobra Golf’s fancy new putter.

3D Printing Impact Of Xbox Series X And PlayStation 5

3D Printing Impact Of Xbox Series X And PlayStation 5

Charles Goulding and Adam Friedman consider how 3D printing might impact updates to the latest gaming consoles.

Book of the Week: Designing 3D Printers

Book of the Week: Designing 3D Printers

This week’s selection is “Designing 3D Printers” by Neil Rosenberg.

iFactory3D Launches Low-Cost Belt 3D Printer

iFactory3D Launches Low-Cost Belt 3D Printer

German startup iFactory has now launched their inexpensive belt 3D printer on Kickstarter.

MiniFactory’s Additive Customer Journey

MiniFactory’s Additive Customer Journey

I spoke with Olli PihlajamÀki of miniFactory to find out how they work with additive manufacturing clients.

The Recipe For More Realistic 3D Printed Prototypes

The Recipe For More Realistic 3D Printed Prototypes

Stratasys, KeyShot, and the 3MF file format come together for a stunningly realistic prototyping capability right off the 3D printer.

Parker Hannifin And 3D Printing

Parker Hannifin And 3D Printing

Charles R. Goulding and Peter Favata take a look at Parker Hannifin's adoption of additive manufacturing.

Design of the Week: War Rig Truck

Design of the Week: War Rig Truck

This week’s selection is the War Rig Truck by the folks from Honeybadger 3D print and paint.

Which 3D Printer? Resin Or Filament?

Which 3D Printer? Resin Or Filament?

These days there are dozens of good choices for desktop 3D printers, but there’s one huge question to be asked first: do you want a resin or a filament 3D printer?

Tongue Tied Pharma: Oral Thin Films And 3D Printing

Tongue Tied Pharma: Oral Thin Films And 3D Printing

Charles Goulding Jr. considers the use of 3D printing in a different sort of pharmaceutical development.

ParallelQSlim: Simplifying Complex 3D Scanned Meshes

ParallelQSlim: Simplifying Complex 3D Scanned Meshes

A new open source tool could greatly aid the simplification of basic 3D scans.

How Did 3D Printing’s Largest Event Translate To The Digital?

How Did 3D Printing’s Largest Event Translate To The Digital?

Now that Formnext 2020 is a wrap, in the digital form of Formnext Connect, we can take a step back and gauge the value of a massive virtual event.