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Tuesday, October 13
Consumer

Plane Support Wins CASA Approval to 3D Print Hard-to-Source 214B Helicopter Ducting

Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. Australian aviation engineering company Plane Support has received approval from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) to manufacture cabin air conditioning ducting for the 214B helicopter using additive manufacturing (AM). The authorization was issued under CASA’s Australian Parts Manufacturer Approval (APMA) framework.…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 13, 2026Added 3 days ago
Industrial

Oerlikon Adds ATLIX’s xBUILD 5000, Plans More for 2027

Oerlikon has installed a new ATLIX xBUILD 5000 metal 3D printer at its facility in Huntersville, North Carolina, marking the first production deployment of the system worldwide. The machine will...

3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business
Oct 13, 2026Added 4 days ago
Monday, October 12
Industrial

xTool Laser Cutters and Engravers: Meet the X1 All-in-One System

xTool has become one of the most recognizable names in desktop laser cutting and engraving, with machines ranging from compact portable engravers to larger enclosed CO₂ systems and specialist metal-processing tools. We have been covering and testing xTool products on 3DWithUs since 2023, and the latest addition is the new xTool X1, an all-in-one modular […] The post xTool Laser Cutters and Engravers: Meet the X1 All-in-One System appeared first on 3DWithUs – 3D Printing, Scanning, Design Guides & Forums.

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Oct 12, 2026Added 4 days ago
Consumer

Mausware Expands Finger Maus Line to Four Models and Agrees on Virginia Headquarters

Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. Mausware has reached an agreement to establish its new headquarters in the Tredegar Trust building, also known as the Virginia Trust Company building, a century-old former bank in the downtown financial district of Richmond, Virginia. The wearable technology company also announced the…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 12, 2026Added 4 days ago
Consumer

Simulations Explain Fresh Cement Flow for 3D Printing

Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. Researchers at Northwestern University and The University of Alabama have developed a multiscale modeling framework to study how freshly mixed cement paste flows, a behavior that strongly affects how well concrete can be 3D printed. The study was published in the Journal…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 12, 2026Added 4 days ago
Consumer

ECU Joins AMCRC to Boost Defence, Mining and Resources Applications

What should you automate next? Get ideas at AMA: Software 2026. Perth-based Edith Cowan University (ECU) has become the latest research partner of the Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (AMCRC), bringing a Western Australian institution into a national collaboration focused on accelerating industrial adoption of 3D printing across Australia. ECU joins an existing network made…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 12, 2026Added 4 days ago
Industrial

ASTRO America Leads $9M AFRL CRADA to Advance 3D Printed Missile Production

The Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) model for establishing private-public partnerships has started to gain traction in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry over the last couple of years. In...

3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business
Oct 12, 2026Added 4 days ago
Industrial

3DPOD 317: 3D Printing at ORNL, Part I – Alexander Plotkowski

Alexander Plotkowski is all about developing new alloys. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), he’s the Group Leader for Computational Coupled Physics within the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division. He’s...

3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business
Oct 12, 2026Added 4 days ago
Industrial

UltiMaker Cura 5.14 [beta]

The post UltiMaker Cura 5.14 [beta] appeared first on UltiMaker.

UltiMaker
Oct 12, 2026Added yesterday
Consumer

Arc Impact Outlines Staged Path to Qualified Binder Jet Production for Aerospace and Defense

Arc Impact, a binder jetting company working with metals and ceramics, has outlined how it helps aerospace and defense manufacturers take complex components from early development to qualified serial production. Its approach combines a staged framework called AM2 Production, the X25Pro and X160Pro binder jet systems from its X-Series line, and its Live Suite software.…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 12, 2026Added 4 days ago
Consumer

3D Printed Earth Bricks Regulate Climate Around Olive Tree

Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. Researchers at the Material Topology Research Lab (MTRL) at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and the Tree Lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science have completed BUSTAN, a pavilion built at full size from 178 earth bricks that a robotic…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 12, 2026Added 4 days ago
Consumer

ASTRO America $9M CRADA to 3D Print Gray Wolf Missile Parts

Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. The Applied Science and Technology Research Organization of America (ASTRO America) has entered a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Northrop Grumman, Florida State University InSPIRE, and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Air Warfare Directorate’s Mission Effects Division (AFRL/RAB). The…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 12, 2026Added 4 days ago
Consumer

Chinese Super Factory with 400 Metal 3D Printers Planned for Smartphone Production

Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. A subsidiary of Chinese steel giant Jingye Group has signed an agreement to build a RMB 5 billion (about US$700 million) manufacturing base in Fengshun County, Guangdong Province, equipped with 400 metal 3D printers, 20 metal powder production lines and 100 metal…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 12, 2026Added 4 days ago
Consumer

Engo Uses Metal 3D Printing for Titanium Temples on New AR Running Glasses

Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. Engo Eyewear has introduced Engo Titanium, a pair of augmented reality (AR) glasses for runners and cyclists with temples produced through metal additive manufacturing (metal AM). The temples are the side pieces that run along the head and rest behind the ears…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 12, 2026Added 4 days ago
Consumer

PharmaTher Builds Network of 3D Printing Nodes for Rare Disease, Shortage and Emergency Medicines

Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. Canadian specialty pharmaceutical company PharmaTher Holdings has launched the M3DICINES National Network Program, an initiative to build a distributed network of qualified sites across North America that produce personalized medicines on CraftMake pharmaceutical 3D printers. The program will begin with U.S. 503A…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 12, 2026Added 4 days ago
Industrial

UpNano Unveils 3DAR

Austrian nanoscale 3D printing firm UpNano can make very precise 3D printers that can achieve accurate results at the sub-micron level. The company’s 2PP printers have helped it secure a...

3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business
Oct 12, 2026Added 5 days ago
Industrial

Your FDM part doesn't exist until you slice it

Novineer CEO Ali Tamijani explains how identical beams can differ sixfold in stiffness, and why toolpaths must become an engineering input.

TCT Magazine
Oct 12, 2026Added 5 days ago
Sunday, October 11
Industrial

The Science Lab You Can 3D Print

Researchers at Sweden’s Umeå University have shown how desktop 3D printers can be used to make lab equipment, giving scientists a cheaper way to build tools for their research. The...

3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business
Oct 11, 2026Added 5 days ago
Saturday, October 10
Friday, October 9
Industrial

PharmaTher Plans U.S. Network to 3D Print Medicines on Demand

3D printing medicines has often been tied to the idea of personalization, basically making a pill in the right dose, shape, or drug combination for a patient. PharmaTher is now...

3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business
Oct 9, 2026Added 7 days ago
Industrial

Mosquito Dreams Part 2: Monocoque and the Battle of Britain

In the first article in this series, we look at how a European chair company invested in the world by pioneering mass manufacturing, modularity, bent wood, tubular steel, catalogs, composites,...

3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business
Oct 9, 2026Added 7 days ago
Consumer

Hyperion Systems and Inspire Robotics to Deploy Recycled-Plastic 3D Printing Factory in Timor-Leste

What should you automate next? Get ideas at AMA: Software 2026. Australian large-format additive manufacturing company Hyperion Systems has signed an agreement with Inspire Robotics to install a containerised 3D printing system in Timor-Leste later this year. The two companies describe the project as a world-first circular economy initiative, combining robotics, artificial intelligence and recycled…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 9, 2026Added 7 days ago
Consumer

Unfold Installs 3D Printed Aluminum Curtain as Main Gate of Design Museum Gent’s New Wing

What should you automate next? Get ideas at AMA: Software 2026. Design studio Unfold has completed Freeze Frame 82.2, a WAAM 3D printed aluminum sculpture shaped like a theatre curtain caught in motion, which now serves as the main entrance gate to DING, the new extension of Design Museum Gent in Belgium. Measuring more than…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 9, 2026Added 7 days ago
Consumer

Gallery in Haarlem Opens Exhibition on 3D Printed Fashion

What should you automate next? Get ideas at AMA: Software 2026. Fashion and 3D Printing, an exhibition of work by three designers who combine fashion and technology, opened on October 8 at the 3D Print Gallery in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The gallery occupies one of the cells of the Koepel, a former prison, and describes…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 9, 2026Added 7 days ago
Consumer

6K Additive Signs US$27.4M Loan to Expand Powder Production

What should you automate next? Get ideas at AMA: Software 2026. Metal additive manufacturing (AM) powder producer 6K Additive has signed a final loan agreement with the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) for a secured financing facility of up to US$27.4 million. The funds will support expansion at the company’s headquarters in Burgettstown,…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 9, 2026Added 7 days ago
Thursday, October 8
Industrial

eSUN Filament Guide: PLA, PETG, TPU and ABS Hands-On Testing

This guide brings together our hands-on experience with eSUN filament across a growing range of 3DWithUs projects. From PLA and PETG to TPU and ABS, we are combining new tests with earlier print examples from our reviews and projects to show how these materials perform. Table of Contents (Jump to a Section) About eSUN eSUN […] The post eSUN Filament Guide: PLA, PETG, TPU and ABS Hands-On Testing appeared first on 3DWithUs – 3D Printing, Scanning, Design Guides & Forums.

3DWithUs – 3D Printing, Scanning, Design Guides & Forums
Oct 8, 2026Added 8 days ago
Industrial

The “Apple Effect”: Are 3D Printers Becoming Lifestyle Products?

For most of its history, desktop 3D printing has been a technology business. Companies competed on speed, accuracy, build volume, temperature, materials and reliability. Buyers compared specifications because the machines...

3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business
Oct 8, 2026Added 8 days ago
Industrial

The Manufacturing Race Behind the Drone Revolution

We are in the middle of a major manufacturing shift focused on the production speed and payload capacity of uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), or drones. A recent Manufacturing Dive article...

3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business
Oct 8, 2026Added 8 days ago
Industrial

Bendix Goes All Gas, No Brakes with AON3D’s Hylo

Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems makes brakes, ABS systems, lane departure systems, drum brakes, and more for commercial vehicles. Vincent Bendix founded the firm in 1923 after his father was hit...

3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business
Oct 8, 2026Added 8 days ago
Consumer

Print&Live and iSCALE 3D Scale Up Production of Airless UGV Wheels After Combat Testing

Where can AI actually help your print workflow? Find out at AMA: Software, online on October 22nd. Ukrainian developer Print&Live UA and iSCALE 3D have completed field and combat trials of 3D printed airless wheels for unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). The wheels are already being produced in small batches and delivered regularly to combat units.…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 8, 2026Added 8 days ago
Consumer

PharmaTher Sets 3D Printed Medicine Roadmap, Targeting First CraftMake Orders This Quarter and a Rare Pediatric NDA by 2028

Where can AI actually help your print workflow? Find out at AMA: Software, online on October 22nd. Specialty pharmaceutical company PharmaTher Holdings plans to take its first orders for the CraftMake pharmaceutical 3D printer in Q4 2026, the opening step in a multi-year roadmap the company published on October 5. The plan runs from compounded…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 8, 2026Added 8 days ago
Consumer

Apiar Launches Carbon1.0 OG, Billed as First Commercial Watch With a CBAM 3D Printed Case

Where can AI actually help your print workflow? Find out at AMA: Software, online on October 22nd. UK watch brand Apiar has introduced the Carbon1.0 OG, which it says is the first commercially available watch made with Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing (CBAM). The watch combines two additive processes: a CBAM carbon-fibre outer case built around a…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 8, 2026Added 8 days ago
Consumer

Spherene adds integrated structural simulation to sphereneNXT

Where can AI actually help your print workflow? Find out at AMA Software, online on October 22nd. Swiss engineering software developer Spherene has added integrated structural simulation to sphereneNXT, its browser-based platform for designing the internal architecture of parts for additive manufacturing. Available in sphereneNXT v2.0.0, the new Simulation capability allows engineers to perform linear…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 8, 2026Added 8 days ago
Industrial

Prusa Research Releases New HT HOTEND

Prusa Research is offering a new hot end for its Core One 3D printers. The new high-temperature hot end can go up to 400 °C. The swappable hot end can...

3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business
Oct 8, 2026Added 9 days ago
Wednesday, October 7
Industrial

Australia’s AMCRC Welcomes Edith Cowan University as Newest Member

Australia´s Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (AMCRC) has been joined by Edith Cowan University (ECU). This makes it the 12th university to join the AMCRC. Effectively, AMCRC is Australia Makes,...

3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business
Oct 7, 2026Added 9 days ago
Industrial

Prusa Core One L+: A Worthy Upgrade?

Disclosure: The Core One L+ was provided to me by Prusa3d free of charge for the purpose of this review. I have not received any other compensation. All opinions expressed...

3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business
Oct 7, 2026Added 9 days ago
Consumer

Global AM Market Shows 12% Growth to $4.5BN in Q2

Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. The global additive manufacturing market reached $4.5 billion in the second quarter of 2026, a 12% increase from the same period a year earlier, according to quarterly tracking data published by Additive Manufacturing Research (AM Research). Drawn from AM Research’s 3DP/AM Market…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 7, 2026Added 9 days ago
Industrial

Halloween 3D Printing – Ideas and Techniques

One of the most popular seasons for 3D printing at home is Halloween. Seasonal symbols and fan art designs featuring objects and characters from horror movies make this creativity-rich event highly anticipated among 3D printer owners. Let’s examine why this theme is popular in the 3D printing community and list Halloween 3D print ideas and […] The post Halloween 3D Printing – Ideas and Techniques appeared first on 3DWithUs – 3D Printing, Scanning, Design Guides & Forums.

3DWithUs – 3D Printing, Scanning, Design Guides & Forums
Oct 7, 2026Added 9 days ago
Consumer

California’s 3D Printer Gun Law Signed for Firearm-Blocking Technology in 3D Printers

How is AI changing 3D printing? Discover more at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation making California the second US state to mandate firearm-blocking technology in 3D printers sold within its borders. The law, which follows a similar measure enacted in New York, carries a…

3D Printing Industry
Oct 7, 2026Added 10 days ago