Monday, August 31, 2015

How To Quickly Model and 3D Print Small Household Objects

New 3D printer owners might be having fun printing pre-designed 3D models, but what if you need to produce a custom...

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Stratasys and Fabbaloo Partner On A Contest

3D printing industry giant Stratasys is partnering with Fabbaloo to offer a challenge for our readers. Read on and you...

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Design of the Week: Eco-Water and Water Supply Storage

This week’s selection is the fascinating and practical Eco-Water and Water Supply Storage by Baptiste Godard.

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Sunday, August 30, 2015

NASA’s Ever-Increasing Library of 3D Models

Did you know that US space agency NASA offers a formidable set of 3D models available for 3D printing?

In fact,...

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Saturday, August 29, 2015

Jazz Musician Needs 3D Printing Assistance

Musician Paul Hirsch has been developing a new type of “wholetone-tuned panpipe”, but now requires assistance to...

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Friday, August 28, 2015

Biomimetics 3D Printing Challenge Now Open

Crowdsourced innovation service Innonatives has posted a challenge seeking “radical ideas” on how to combine...

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Zare Reduces Manufacturing Costs by Implementing Fortus Additive Manufacturing System

Stratasys recently announced that Zare, a manufacturing service bureau based in Italy, cut its manufacturing costs by...

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Thursday, August 27, 2015

The Beast: A 3D Printer That Really Is One

A soon-to-be-launched on Kickstarter project promises to produce a truly massive desktop 3D printer.

“The...

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UK’s Gary Miller Resurfaces With New 3D Print Service

Longtime Fabbaloo friend Gary Miller has emerged with a new company: 3D Print Bureau.

Miller previously worked...

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More On Gartner’s 3D Printing Predictions

Gartner 3D printing analyst Pete Basiliere pointed us at their company’s latest detailed report on 3D printing and it...

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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

FABtotum Combines Two 3D Printing Processes - and More!

FABTotum launched a new making option, the PRISM, which enables their Personal Fabricator to include multiple 3D...

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Microsoft Developing Mobile 3D Scanning Technology - For Any Smartphone!

A paper from Oxford and Microsoft researchers details an experimental workflow enabling capture of 3D models using only...

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The LumiPocket LT: More Than Just a 3D Printer

Lumi Industries has launched a new inexpensive 3D printer that can do more than 3D printing: the LumiPocket LT.

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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Dicing Up The Inside of a 3D Model With MeshMixer

We’ve been experimenting with some of MeshMixer’s lesser-known but highly powerful capabilities to create a hidden...

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Carbon3D Scores USD$100M To Make 3D Manufacturing a “Reality”. But It Already Is!

Startup Carbon3D, inventors of the CLIP 3D printing process, just received no less than USD$100M in investment, leading...

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3DOM’s New Coffee-Flavored 3D Printer Filament Opens Up Possibilities For Unusual Materials

3DOM announced a new 3D printer filament made from coffee grounds. Yes, really, and it actually makes sense. But...

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Monday, August 24, 2015

MIT’s 3D Glass Printer Raises Questions

Researchers at MIT unveiled an incredible new 3D printing process that uses glass as the print material. We’re asking...

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Should You Purchase a 3D Printer From A Reseller?

There are multiple ways to purchase a 3D printer these days, and often at low cost. One way is to use a reseller,...

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Design of the Week: VOXEL Chair

This week’s selection is the very unusual VOXEL chair by designer Joshua Sellini.

The VOXEL is the end result...

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Sunday, August 23, 2015

Cubify Now Sells Nylon 3D Print Material

3D Systems announced the availability of nylon material cartridges for use in their CubePro line of professional...

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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Gartner’s 2015 Predictions on 3D Printing

We’ve examined Gartner’s annual Hype Cycle chart with respect to 3D printing and found some very promising news....

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Friday, August 21, 2015

TNT Germany Teams with trinckle 3D

Delivery services giant TNT has partnered with Berlin-based trinckle 3D to provide 3D print services to their clients....

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The Renishaw AM250 Additive Manufacturing System

Utilizing a high-powered fiber laser to print 20µm- to 100µm-thick layers of fully dense metal directly from 3D CAD...

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Thursday, August 20, 2015

Another MeshMixer Update For You To Download

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

If you...

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Full-Size Tyrannosaurus Rex Repaired by 3D Printing

Leiden, Netherlands will be the new home for a full-sized Tyrannosaurus rex in 2016, with the assistance of 3D printing...

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