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MakerBot Announces CloudPrint for Collab and 3D Printer Sharing

MakerBot announced a new service called MakerBot CloudPrint, which is intended to deliver a seamless 3D printing experience to clients.

MakerBot Print

Up to now MakerBot 3D printer operators would use MakerBot Print to prepare and schedule jobs for attached MakerBot devices. That tool has been around for several years, and it’s proven to be quite useful. When I tested it on the Replicator+I…

Swarm 3D Printing: Deploying Mobile Robot Crew for Autonomous Manufacturing

Arkansas-based AMBOTS is developing a concept called “Swarm 3D Printing”, describing themselves as “an advanced manufacturing company with a focus on swarm 3D printing and assembly” that will bring us “the next manufacturing revolution.”

“This technology aims to automate manufacturing with a swarm of smart and autonomous mobile robots, from everyday products to houses and infrastructures. Just…

Finely-Detailed Metal 3D Prints From The Incus Hammer Lab35

Today I’m looking at a 3D printer I had not seen before, the Incus Hammer Lab35.

Incus Background

Incus is a spin off of Austria-based Lithoz, who have done very well with their line of ceramic 3D printers. Now it seems they’ve leveraged their expertise to produce a metal 3D printer that is capable of incredibly smooth surfaces.

LMM 3D Printing

Overview of the LMM metal 3D printing…

New 3D Printing Process: Droplet-Based Multiphase Emulsion

Researchers at UC Davis have developed an unusual new form of 3D printing that uses Droplet-Based Multiphase Emulsion.

One of the big challenges in 3D printing is the inability to handle multiple materials. Typical 3D printers of today can 3D print a single material at a time, with certain more advanced models being able to print with a small handful of different types.

This is generally…

Getting Better 3D Prints With 3DOptimizer

A new online service has emerged that hopes to guide 3D printer operators to better printing parameters: 3DOptimizer.

FabControl SIA, the producers of 3DOptimizer, seems to be a spinoff from well-known 3D printer manufacturer Mass Portal. Their claim to fame was being able to achieve 3D prints of astonishing quality, so there’s definitely skill present. In fact, one of the founders and former…

PICO CAD is a Low Poly 3D Modeling Software Concept

Note: This is concept software! Interested in available 8-bit/DOS modelers? Check out Magicvoxel, 3D Studio DOS, or Mikshape3D!

Game developer Johan Peitz posted a tweet recently with a video of a project he’s working on called “PICO CAD”. It’s a kind of 8-bit 3D modeling system to develop very simple 3D objects.

We don’t yet know much about PICO CAD, as Peitz has posted only a single,…

The Largest 3D Printing Factory Is Coming

The idea of parallel 3D printing is incredibly powerful.

The rap against 3D printers has long been that they are monumentally slower than traditional manufacturing equipment to produce finished units, even though they are able to make objects of any design on the next print job.

This slowness has sometimes been the reason for not considering 3D printing as a manufacturing option, along with…

Nano Dimension and HENSOLDT Have 3D Printed PCB Breakthrough. Stock Soars. #3dprinting

If you happen to own stock in Nano Dimension, it’s definitely your lucky week, as the price quadrupled after a surprise announcement. 

The company announced a breakthroughin its technology that will be of significant interest to the industry. Nano Dimension produces equipment to 3D print circuit boards. While circuit boards are essentially 2D structures, the company’s DragonFly device is able…