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Mosaic Manufacturing Announces “CANVAS”
Mosaic Manufacturing announced a new cloud-based multi-material software tool for 3D printing, CANVAS.
AstroPrint Announces the AstroBox Touch and Even More Interesting Stuff
Astroprint announced a new set-top box for desktop 3D printers: the AstroBox Touch.
Thrinno’s 3D Metal Printing Quotation System
Are you 3D printing in metal? Thrinno’s new quoting system might be for you.
MakerOS Finally Releases Version 1.0
After a year of beta testing with over 1500 firms, MakerOS is now publicly available for subscription.
Autodesk Wants You To Subscribe To Their 3D Software, They Really Do!
3D software giant Autodesk, whose products are used by many Fabbaloo readers, has announced significant price increases for their non-subscription products.
A-Team Ventures’ Desktop 3D Printer has a Waggle!
A-Team Ventures has produced desktop 3D printers for some years, but now they have a Waggle, too.
Polar3D Gets a Huge Financial Boost
Polar3D, the makers of a very unusual desktop 3D printer, just announced they’ve received USD$2M in investment.
Authentise Releases 3D Printing Analytics Module
Companies with fleets of industrial 3D printers could get much value from a new module in Authentise’s 3DIAX suite: analytics.
A Quick Catchup On MakePrintable
Last fall I wrote a series of stories on an interesting 3D printing startup, MakePrintable. What’s happened since then?
Autodesk Forges Critical New APIs for Forge
Autodesk’s Forge cloud-based 3D initiative gained some new APIs this past week, and they’ll be of specific interest to 3D printing folks.
3DPrinterOS Gains Some Portability
One of the leading cloud-based 3D printing services just made life a lot easier by supporting the Raspberry Pi 3.
Autodesk Axes Perpetual Licenses, Making Users Angry And Happy
Autodesk, one of the world’s largest suppliers of 3D software, announced they’re completely phasing out standard software licenses and moving everything to the cloud.
Carbon Announces the M1 3D Printer, With A Shocking Surprise
Explosive startup Carbon finally announced their first product, the M1 industrial 3D printer.
New Minority Report-Style 3D Modeling Service Coming: 3DGxPAINT?
I stumbled onto a new, apparently not-yet-launched 3D modeling service that could be extremely interesting: 3DGxPAINT.
Watch Out For The MakerX Box
There’s going to be another option for 3D print streaming: The MakerX box.
EXCLUSIVE: New 3Dwox 3D Printer In The Works
At CES we were taken to a secret side room to see a prototype of a new 3Dwox 3D printer.
uMake For 3D Printing? We Don’t Think So
A new iOS app for easily creating sketch-based 3D models appeared: uMake. But we’re not sure it’s best for 3D printing.
Autodesk’s Forge 3D Platform
When Autodesk does something, they don’t fool around. Now they’ve announced a new cloud-based 3D platform that could shake things up.
Possible Problem: 3D Printing Cloud Services vs Print Speed
There are several cloud-based 3D print services available, but we realized there could be a fundamental problem facing them in the future.
CloudDDM’s New Strategic End-of-Runway 3D Printing Service
As additive manufacturing (AM) in combination with other 3D technology continues to affect industrial manufacturing and design processes in the global marketplace, an increasing number of companies will be faced with an important investment decision: For 3D printing needs, do we invest the resources to purchase an industrial 3D printer or do we use a 3D printing service bureau?
The MatterControl Touch: A Brain For Your 3D Printer
Let’s face it: most desktop 3D printers are pretty dumb. But now you can add some smarts to your device with the MatterControl Touch.
Microsoft Teams with netfabb In The Cloud
Microsoft and netfabb announced a partnership to extend their 3D print cloud services.
Skyforge: Cloud-Based 3D Print Management For Industry and Institutions
We spoke with Element Robot’s CEO, Chris Walker, about their cloud-based 3D print management system.
3DPrinterOS Hits Milestone Twice As Fast As 3D Hubs
3D printing cloud service 3DPrinterOS hit a big milestone: they now have over 2,000 participating 3D printers in their growing network.
3DPrinterOS’ Opensource Move Could Challenge MakerBot
In a bid to gain market share, 3DPrinterOS has publicly released the code for their multi-platform 3D printing client, and there are some big implications.
3DPrinterOS Update
We’ve been quietly testing the cloud-based 3DPrinterOS recently and asked the company to tell us the latest developments.
Printr: Another Cloud-Based 3D Printing Service
Joining several recent entrants, Dutch-based Printr announces PrintrOS for your 3D printing cloud needs.
Hands on with 3DPrinterOS
We’re looking today at a new software solution to 3D printing: the 3DPrinterOS.