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Hands On With The Bambu Lab H3C 3D Printer, Part 4

Our look at the Bambu Lab H3C 3D printer concludes with Print Results and Final Thoughts.

Hands On With The Bambu Lab H3C 3D Printer, Part 3

Our review of the Bambu Lab H3C 3D printer continues with a look at Operations and Software.

Hands On With The Bambu Lab H3C 3D Printer, Part 2

Our review of the amazing Bambu Lab H3C 3D printer continues with Unboxing, Assembly and Calibration.

Hands On With The Bambu Lab H3C 3D Printer, Part 1

The H3C is official today, and we’ve been quietly testing it for several weeks.

ICON Patent Turns An Extraterrestrial Printer Into A Rover

What if the 3D printer had to drive to the job site because the job site was another planet?

Patent Proposes Larger Extruder Wheels for Faster FFF Printing

Could the answer to filament feeding problems be bigger wheels?

IBM Patent Uses Flame Hardening Inside a 3D Printed Part

What if a 3D printer could heat treat the inside of a part before the part is completed?

EOS Patent Alternates Laser Beam Shapes For Stronger LPBF Parts

EOS wants to make a laser powder bed fusion part with two different laser personalities.

Meltio And HORKOS Compress Manufacturing Into One Hybrid Machine

3D printers are starting to fold into machine tools.

Seurat Patent Proposes A Faster Light Valve For Metal Printing

Seurat is patenting a very unusual method of speeding up metal 3D printing.

Signify Patent Puts Pellet Material Inside A Filament Skin

Signify describes a single-nozzle FFF extruder that surrounds pellet-fed material with a different filament, potentially combining low-cost bulk deposition with a controlled outer surface.

Formlabs Patent Moves SLS Powder With Flexible Screws

Formlabs has filed a patent for a new way to push powder around inside SLS 3D printers.

Prusa Now Offers High Temp 3D Printing at a Much Lower Price

Prusa takes an interesting step into higher-temperature materials.

Prusa Patent Combines Nozzle Cutter, Brush, And Parking Pad

Prusa has come up with a tidy answer to a messy 3D printing problem: make the nozzle pass through a small cleaning station that cuts, scrubs, and parks it.

University Of Arizona Patent Splits One Laser Into Multiple 3D Prints

Two-photon polymerization 3D printing has a throughput problem: the machine usually can print only one object at a time.

Hands On With The Creality SPARKX i7 3D Printer, Part 3

Our look at the SPARKX i7 3D printer concludes with software, print results and final thoughts.

Hands On With The Creality SPARKX i7 3D Printer, Part 2

Our review of the SPARKX i7 3D printer continues with a look at unboxing, assembly, calibration and operations.

Hands On With The Creality SPARKX i7 3D Printer, Part 1

We’ve been testing the Creality SPARKX i7 desktop 3D printer, and it’s quite a machine.

Remote 3D Printing Through Opaque Materials Uses Focused Ultrasound

What if the printing head never had to reach the place where the object is being made?

VulcanForms Patents Steerable Laser Beams

Laser beam steering usually means moving something.

SprintRay Patent Turns Resin Printer Lighting Into A Replaceable Cartridge

What if the most troublesome part of a resin 3D printer could simply slide out?

EOS Patent Uses A Carbon Monoxide Laser For Finer Powder Bed Fusion

EOS is proposing a very different light source for polymer powder bed fusion: a carbon monoxide laser.

Voxeljet Patent Uses A Light Barrier To Prevent Recoater Crashes

A recoater crash is one of the more expensive ways for a powder bed 3D printer to have a bad day.

Unannounced Creality 3D Printer Appears in Slicing Software

Well, this is curious — a new, unannounced 3D printer appeared in Creality’s latest software release.

University of Maine Seeks More Patents for an Old 3D Printing Idea

Tilting a 3D printer’s build plate to eliminate supports is hardly a new idea.

Formlabs Launches US$699 Form Studio 1 Resin 3D Printer

Huge news from Formlabs today: they are introducing a new desktop resin 3D printer that is at a very affordable price.

Researchers Improve Commercial 3D Printing Technology And Seek Patent Protection

A Stanford and UNC patent describes a high-resolution CLIP printer using reduction optics, automated focusing and resin-flow modeling to produce microneedles and other microstructures at unusual speed.

GE Patent Uses Laser Flicker To Spot LPBF Defects

In metal LBPF, a laser can look perfectly healthy while the powder beneath it is not.

Prusa Patent Shapes Nozzle Channels For Higher Flow

Prusa has patented a very unusual and possibly quite powerful hot end design.

Growth 3D Printing Pulls Shapes From Reactive Resin

This process prints by pulling a reaction out of a vat.

Stanford Patent Proposes 3D Printing Through a Keyhole

What if the printhead could snake its way into the build instead of hovering above it?

Align Patent Uses Temperature To Tune 3D Printed Resin

What if changing a resin’s temperature could change the properties of the finished print?

Lynxel Teases LMS, a New Full-Color Resin 3D Printing Process

An entirely new full-color 3D printing process is about to launch.

Quadratic 3D Building A Volumetric Printing Platform

Quadratic 3D has been hiding in plain sight.

Xolo Patent Uses Messy Light Beams To Smooth Volumetric Prints

Volumetric 3D printing can be fast, but the light itself can leave fingerprints on the part.

Uniformation to Launch for Fully Automated Resin Printer

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

Stratasys Patent Doubles Color Printing Drops Per Travel

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

Additive Industries Patent Splits Powder Beds Into Independently Controlled Zones

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

LLNL Patent Replaces LPBF Rastering With A Digital Light Mask

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

Creality Patent Puts Internal Fins Inside A High-Speed Hot End

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

Wondermaker Launches ZR Ultra Tool-Changing 3D Printer on Kickstarter

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

A Differential Drive Could Make FFF Printheads Lighter

What if you moved the extruder motor off FFF printhead?

This Tiny 0.650mm #3DBenchy Took 13 Hours to Print

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

Xolo Shrinks Its Volumetric 3D Printer for a Possible Trip to Orbit

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

Bambu Lab Patent Uses Printer Housing To Switch Hot Ends

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

XYZO Combines Resin and FFF 3D Printing, CNC and More, But is that a Good Idea?

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.

Anycubic Patent Thickens Color Contours Before Printing

A single colored line may be too little color.

Can Creality’s US$309 Sparkx i8 Solve the Purge Poop Problem?

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

Divergent Patent Uses Magnetic Fields To Stir Metal 3D Printing

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.

Bambu Lab Patent Puts The Heater Inside The 3D Printer Bed

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

Stratasys Patent Rethinks The Multi-Material Purge Tower

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

Bambu Lab Patent Combines Bowden and Direct Drive Extrusion

Bambu Lab has patented an unusual extrusion arrangement that seems particularly good for printing soft materials like TPU in FFF systems.

Flashforge Finally Ships the CJ270 With Millions of Colors

Flashforge finally shipped the elusive CJ270 full-colour 3D printer.

Shining 3D’s Patent Takes On The Resin Peel Problem

Shining 3D has been thinking about a new way of getting each cured layer to let go in resin 3D printing.

Atlant 3D Patent Proposes Atomic Scale Multi Fluid Printing

A printer head that dispenses three different fluids through the same tiny nozzle could bring atomic layer processing closer to a genuinely three-dimensional workflow.

Nanogrande Patent Combines Binder Jetting With Laser Precision

Why use one 3D printing process for an entire part when different areas need different levels of accuracy?

Unreleased QIDI 3D Printer Appears in FCC Filing

QIDI seems to have another machine on deck.

Creality Patent Proposes Induction Heating For FFF Nozzles

A Creality patent proposes heating an FFF nozzle with electromagnetic induction instead of relying only on a conventional heater.

Creality Reveals K3 3D Printer With Four-Nozzle KliTek Multicolor System

Creality has officially announced the K3 desktop 3D printer.

Mosaic Manufacturing Launches Orion 3D Printer for Custom Orthotics

Mosaic Manufacturing surprised everyone with a new 3D printer, one designed specifically for orthotics.

Miltenyi Patent Could Make Two-Color Volumetric Printing Much Larger

Here’s an interesting approach to volumetric 3D printing: instead of focusing light into a tiny point, stretch it into a thin sheet and sweep that sheet across the print.

Nissan Patent Uses Magnetic Pillars To Help Release Resin Prints

Here’s a rather strange idea from Nissan: put tiny magnetic pillars in the bottom of a resin 3D printer vat and wiggle them around to help release each layer.

Stratasys Launches F870 Large-Format Industrial 3D Printer

Stratasys announced a new 3D printer, the F870.

Ugee Funbox 3D Printer for Kids Goes on Sale

Remember the Funbox 3D printer? It’s now available for purchase.

IBM Patent Uses Seed Crystals To Control 3D Printing

Here’s an unusual idea from IBM: what if a 3D printer could decide exactly where crystals should begin growing inside a print?

Modix Generation 5 Adds INDX Toolchanging and Pellet Extrusion to Large-Format 3D Printers

Modix announced a key upgrade to their BIG series of large-format 3D printers.

Lawrence Livermore Patent Proposes Multimaterial Two-Photon 3D Printing

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory appear to have found an unusual way to 3D print multiple materials with a two-photon system: change the light instead of changing the resin.

UltiMaker Emphasizes NATO-Aligned Security as Competition Intensifies

Is UltiMaker going “secure”? I’ve watched the desktop 3D printing industry since it began more than 15 years ago, and in the years following, almost all of the original companies have disappeared. Some suddenly, while others gradually faded away. One that’s still around is UltiMaker. They have been quite successful in the past, developing robust… Continue reading UltiMaker Emphasizes NATO-Aligned Security as Competition Intensifies

Chinese Patent Proposes Swappable Hotends For Multimaterial FFF

Changing filament in a multimaterial FFF printer usually means pushing the new material through the old hotend until the previous material is gone. A Chinese patent proposes a different solution: leave the extruder in place and swap the hotend underneath it.