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3D Slash Releases Version 3.0

France-based 3D Slash released a new version of their popular entry-level 3D design tool with some useful features.

Ultimaker Launches Remote 3D Printing

Ultimaker just launched a new app to complement their new Ultimaker 3D desktop 3D printer, and it includes the ability to do remote 3D printing.

Autodesk Consolidates The 123D Suite

For several years Autodesk has supported the 3D modeling and 3D printing community through their highly useful 123D suite. Now, that may change.

Autodesk’s PrintOne Enables Safe Generation of 3D Printed Musical Instruments

Designing a musical instrument just got a lot simpler thanks to an experiment by Autodesk.

Trinkcle’s B2B Product Generation System

I’ve always thought that generative approaches may be the way for consumers to get into 3D printing, but there’s actually another more important use.

AIO Robotic’s New Multi-Color Option

AIO Robotics has introduced an interesting new feature that enables basic color changing on their desktop 3D printer.

Microsoft’s Paint 3D: Introductory, Not Revolutionary

Windows 10 now includes Paint 3D, a simple 3D modeling program.

Variable Layer Slicing for The Ember 3D Printer: Good Idea or Not?

Autodesk has introduced something called “VariSlice” for their Ember desktop 3D printers.

Structural Analysis with Altair HyperWorks’ OptiStruct

Designing a mechanical part requires much more than simply the geometric shape; other factors must be analyzed and accounted for, and that requires powerful software.

Sigma Labs Hopes to Enable Many More 3D Printing Uses

While 3D printing technologies continue to be adopted by manufacturing, there are still some challenges.

3D Print Community: RhinoSlic3r

This month’s community support selection is the RhinoSlic3r project by Quentin Labrosse.

Netfabb Basic: Lost, Then Found!

A while ago we posted a short piece wondering what the heck happened to the very popular Netfabb Basic software. Now, there’s an answer. A few actually.

And Where Did Netfabb Basic Go?

After our story regarding Netfabb’s new release last week, an anonymous reader pointed out that Netfabb’s “Basic” version appears to be missing.

Autodesk Releases Upgraded NetFabb

Autodesk released Autodesk Netfabb 2017, which includes numerous improvements.

3D Printing Software That Might Pay For Itself

France-based Deltaface has produced 3D print preparation software that could save you some money.

Printr’s Intelligent Dual Extrusion Wiping Feature

Netherlands-based Printr released a new slicing feature for their Formide system that increases the reliability of dual extrusion 3D prints.

3MF Releases Production-Oriented Extensions

The 3MF Consortium released two interesting specification extensions that are designed to make life much easier for production environments.

The New Emendo is 10X Faster

Emendo, a STL file repair utility from Avante Technology, boasts a dramatic processing speed up of ten times over the previous version.

Simplify3D v3.1 is Overflowing with Printer Support

Simplify3D announced and released a new version, 3.1, that includes support for a ridiculous number of new 3D printers, and also some very interesting enhancements.

Software Catchup: Type A Machine’s Radical 3D Print Infill

In the world of 3D printing, much has been accomplished in increasing hardware capabilities, but it seems that software often lags behind.

Autodesk Remakes Autodesk Memento Into Autodesk ReMake

Autodesk continues shuffling their 3D products around, with the popular Memento system being renamed as “ReMake”.

Materialise Packages Up All The 3D Printing Software You Need In One Bundle

Materialise is perhaps best known for their 3D printing services to industry, but they also create very powerful software, too. Now they’ve bundled it all together.

Powerful Cura Open Beta 3D Print Slicer Is Ready For You To Download

Ultimaker has released a new open-beta version of Cura, their popular slicing software, and there’s much good news and a bit of bad news.

Can You Use ReCap 360 On An iPad? Yes You Can!

Well, sort of. Autodesk has announced a technology preview of ReCap 360 Mobile that qualified persons can join.

Gravity Sketch Simplifies Touch-Based 3D Design

A fun 3D design app has launched: Gravity Sketch.

YSoft’s 3D Printer Management System To Supercharge Education Adoption

This is something I’ve not seen before: a usage management system that’s integrated into a 3D printer.

Arevo Labs’ Fascinating Materials and Software

In the middle of Silicon Valley lies the headquarters of an advanced 3D printing company: Arevo Labs, who produce some extremely interesting materials and software.

Capassity’s Cloudy Twist On 3D Scanning

A new 3D scanning option is available, but it’s not the kind of scanning system you’re used to.

3Digify Offers An Unusual 3D Scan Proposition For Pros And Hobbyists

A new startup offers a 3D scanning solution that has some interesting characteristics.

Materialise Hopes To Open Path To Increased 3D Printing In Hospitals

Belgium-based Materialise announced new software that should enable medical professionals to make significantly greater use of 3D printing technologies.

Microsoft Updates 3D Builder App For Windows 10

Did you know Microsoft produces a 3D modeling app? They’ve just updated it, too.

Solidworks Developing “Apps For Kids”

Solidworks is perhaps the best known 3D modeling system for industry, but now they’re introducing 3D tools for kids.

Stratasys Integrates With Adobe To Enable Easier Color 3D Printing

One of the questions we pondered when Stratasys announced their Connex3 color 3D printer line was, “exactly how does one easily create color 3D models?” Now that question seems to be answered.

MeshMixer 3.0 Enables Multi-Material 3D Printing

Autodesk’s 123D team has released version 3.0 of MeshMixer, their free – and amazing – 3D modeling utility. This time, it’s all about multiple materials.

There Are More Software Engineers Than Hardware At AIO Robotics, And It Shows

The AIO Robotics ZEUS desktop 3D printer seems to have far greater software powers than other devices.

The iPad Pro Attracts a 3D Modeling System: Shapr3D

We’ve seen the appearance of a couple of finger-based iPad applications, but now there’s one specifically designed for the iPad Pro and its Apple Pencil.

Hands On With The Morphi App

We’re testing Morphi on one of our lab iPads, and it seems to be a very good introductory 3D modeling tool.

Generate 3D Printable Rings – And Your Voice, Too!

We’re checking out a new tool to generate custom-designed 3D models of rings and another to “solidify” your voice!

Autodesk Memento Now Available for OS X

If you haven’t tried Autodesk Memento for optical 3D processing, you might want to, especially now that it’s available for both Windows and OS X.

Hands On With The Ultimaker 2 Extended: Software

This is part 2 of our short series on the Ultimaker 2 Extended. Today we’re talking about software.

MakerBot Speeds Up 3D Printing?

MakerBot released an update to their slicing software, MakerBot Desktop, which they say can significantly speed up 3D printing.

Could You Use ZYYX’s Multi-Color 3D Printing Technique?

ZYYX, manufacturers of an interesting desktop 3D printer, have released a video showing a fascinating technique for multi-color printing that you might be able to use.

Is The Most Popular 3D Modeling Software For You? Maybe Not!

i.materialise published a handy list of what they believe to be the most popular 3D modeling software packages, but we have some questions.

Supercharge Your STL 3D Models With Cyborg3D

While designers spend considerable time in CAD software tweaking their 3D models, did you know it’s also possible to optimize STL 3D models, too.

Create Instant Color 3D Models With itSeez3D’s Scanning App

There are a lot of inexpensive 3D scanners available today, but the issue is not so much the hardware, but how the software processes the scans. itSeez3D has produced a great 3D scanning app.

Could Disney’s 3D Coloring System Make Amazing 3D Prints?

Disney has created an interesting 3D augmented reality app that is able to color 3D models, but could this benefit 3D printing?

123D Design Upgraded to 1.7 And Adds Some Very Useful Features

The free 123D suite of apps from Autodesk just got a lot better with the release of 123D Design 1.7.

The Many Plugins Available For OctoPrint

We’ve been looking through a site chock-full of plugins for 3D printer management software OctoPrint, and there’s some very useful functions present.

Aleph Objects Makes A Strategic Software Move

Aleph Objects, makers of the LulzBot series of 3D printers, announced what we consider to be a very strategic move for their software support.

Onshape Receives USD$80M; Fuel For Massive Growth

Upstart web-based 3D modeling service Onshape just raised a massive USD$80M from a group of venture capital investors, which may lead to a battle for 3D modeling supremacy in the future.

Want an Ember 3D Printer? Now You Can Build One Yourself!

Autodesk has released the firmware and electronics for their high resolution resin 3D printer, the Ember.

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.

Another MeshMixer Update For You To Download

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

Ultimaker: Cura is Rebuilt

Ultimaker announced a major upgrade to their 3D printing software, Cura.

netfabb Version 6 Released With Incredible New Features

Popular 3D model utility software netfabb has released version six, which includes several incredibly useful new features for manufacturing.

Polygonica’s Incredible New CAD Model Generation Feature

3D software MachineWorks announced an amazing new feature in their upcoming Polygonica release: the ability to automatically recognize 3D CAD features from a 3D mesh.

Are You Overflowing With 3D Models?

To use a 3D printer, you must have 3D models. But wait, exactly how many do you have? Probably far too many to keep track of.

Emendo 3D Repair Software Now Available For Windows and Adds an SDK

Avante Technology’s Emendo 3D model repair software has had a couple of major changes recently.

Autodesk’s “Within” Could Generate Industrial Change

Autodesk introduced a new product called, “Within” that generates lattice structures within 3D models. It could change everything.

OpenSCAD or OpenJSCAD For Programmatic 3D Modeling?

An interesting new open source project could significantly simplify things for online 3D print services: OpenJSCAD.

Should You Use Blender for 3D Printing? i.Materialise Thinks So

3D print service i.materialise published a pretty decent guide showing how to prepare 3D print files using Blender, but we’re wondering if Blender is the right tool for the job.

3D Printed Food for the Elderly?

A report on Capital Technologies describes a venture to provide 3D printed food for seniors. We’re a bit skeptical.

Just Maybe This 3MF Thing Is Going To Work

The 3MF Consortium announced the arrival of four more companies to the project. And they’re notable companies.

Simplify3D Is 3.0!

The leading commercial 3D printing slicing software just got a lot better: Simplify3D has announced version 3.0.

An Introduction to SolveSpace

I was recently made aware of a free modelling tool called SolveSpace.

Formide OS Open Sourced

Netherlands-based Printr, the folks behind the slick “Element” 3D printer controller, have open sourced some of their software stack.

3D Button Hopes You’ll Press It

A German startup has developed a potentially universal “button” to print 3D content.

Digits2Widgets’ List of 3D CAD Software

There are a huge number of different 3D design software environments. We found a good list of them for you.

Battle of the 3D CAD Systems

Autodesk jiggered the features on their subscription CAD service, Fusion 360. Why did they do so?

Meshmixer Version 2.9 Released

Autodesk Meshmixer is one of my favourite apps for 3D printing.

3MF Consortium Hopes to Standardize 3D Print Formats

Several key 3D print-related companies announced a new consortium focused on promoting a new, more powerful 3D model file format: 3MF.

Euclid: A 3D Printing Mystery Superslicer?

In the preliminary talk schedule for this year’s JuliaCon, there’s mention of a new 3D printing slicer, “Euclid”.

Intel and 3D Systems Partner On Laptop 3D Scanning

Intel’s RealSense 3D scanning cameras have transformed the way we look at laptops. From gesture controls to 3D scanning, Intels new camera has added a whole drawer of tools to the digital toolbox we call laptops.

3D Slash Provides an Easy Way to Produce 3D Models

Looking for a way to easily create 3D models? You might check out 3D Slash.

Success and Challenges for Simplify3D

Simplify3D is an independently-produced 3D printer management software utility that has been quite successful. But it may have challenges, too.

Open Board Game Opens Up Gaming

A new framework permits easy creation of 3D printed items for board games.

Someone Made Up a 3D Modeling Language Called MadeUp

A project called “MadeUp” provides a way to programmatically generate 3D models suitable for 3D printing.

A Look at Onshape

A relatively recent newcomer to the CAD world, Onshape is riding the waves of Cloud computing and aims to set the standard of industrial and product design of the future.

Gradient Color 3D Printing

Color 3D printing has long been a challenge and few manufacturers produce color capable gear. Stratasys has taken a step towards full color 3D printing by demonstrating a 3D printed color gradient.

Hands On With Smoothie-3D

To truly exploit 3D printing technology you need to be able to make your own models.

Lumi Releases 3D Model Braille Generator

Lumi Industries, the folks who created the LumiPocket 3D printer, have released a free braille generator.

Practical Improvements in Simplify3D v2.2.2

If you’re making mechanical parts, you’d best use Simplify3D to slice them.

A Profound MeshMixer Update

MeshMixer 2.8 has been released and it fills a very significant gap in the 123D suite of 3D applications.

Formlabs Tunes Up Their Software

3D printer manufacturer Formlabs has been tuning up their software – and we think that’s a key strategy for them.

Sculpteo Launches FinalProof

Sculpteo launched FinalProof at CES 2015, the first realistic 3D printing preview feature.

Everyone Needs an Ancestro3D

Mexico-based Ideaz 3D is attempting to develop a very unique 3D print application, Ancestro3D.

3D Systems Workflow Improvements

3D Systems released new software for their ProJet 1200, but the features indicate something deeper.

DesignSpark Mechanical Goes 2.0

CAD design tool DesignSpark Mechanical has now been upgraded to version 2.0.

Simplify3D V2.2’s New Features

Third-party 3D print slicer Simplify3D released a new version, 2.2, with some terrific added features.