The new US National Defense Authorization Act includes quite a few statements on additive manufacturing, some of which will affect product sales. Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi report on ...
I’ve been using Simple Green as a resin 3D print solvent, and it works quite well — if you know what to do. Most people use isopropyl alcohol (IPA) to clean 3D prints, and it works extremely well. The ...
This week’s question deals with arithmetic. Reader Johan Smit asks: “1 meter of 1.75 ABS filament equals to ??? cubic centimeters?” This type of question turns up occasionally and we’ve never really ...
COBOD announced a breakthrough material that could revolutionize the use of construction 3D printing. Construction 3D printing has been around for several years, but mostly on an experimental or ...
Intamsys has a new post processing oven, and a very unique application for high temperature materials. In a recent chat with the company we learned the company is developing a specialized oven for ...
DiveDesign and Bionic Pets utilize nTopology to design end-use 3D printed parts for applications that don’t require mass manufacturing and instead would benefit from smaller-scale productions. Just a ...
We had a chat with the folks from Co Print about their multicolor 3D print solution. The Turkish company has been developing an external system to transform a single-color FFF 3D printer to a ...
Want to 3D print feathers that actually look, feel and act life feathers? Read on! Maker Billie Ruben has published a video showing an extremely interesting technique for producing these lifelike ...
Spherene offers advanced software that can quickly generate highly complex 3D models. We discussed how this works with the Swiss company at Formnext, and learned quite a bit about their operations.
3DEVO announced a new purge material that seems to have a lot of advantages, but what’s this all about? If you recall, 3DEVO is the manufacturer of one of the very few functional desktop filament ...
Finally, after an extremely long wait, Simplify3D version 5.0 has been released today. The company’s last release, version 4.1, appeared in November 2018 — over four years ago. Version 5.0 was first ...