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Monday, June 22
Industrial

NASA Selects Relativity Space for Mars Science Mission

NASA has selected Relativity Space as its commercial partner for a new Mars science mission scheduled for launch in 2028, giving another boost to one of the most well-known additive...

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Jun 22, 2026Added 3 months ago
Consumer

Prusament PLA High Speed: A perfect choice for rapid prototyping

Fast printers are great, but fast printers loaded with the right material are even better. And while the speed itself might not single-handedly solve every single challenge, there are situations where the high-speed materials come in really handy, like when you... The post Prusament PLA High Speed: A perfect choice for rapid prototyping appeared first on Original Prusa 3D Printers.

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Jun 22, 2026Added 3 months ago
Sunday, June 21
Industrial

Goal! 3D Printing for the 2026 FIFA World Cup

The 2026 FIFA World Cup officially kicked off in Mexico City on June 11th. It’s the largest FIFA tournament in history, with 48 teams competing over 104 matches. Instead of...

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Jun 21, 2026Added 3 months ago
Saturday, June 20
Consumer

Australia Is Turning to 3D Printing to Secure Its Industrial Foundation

A new policy report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), authored by Steven Camilleri, co-founder and CTO of metal 3D printing company SPEE3D, argues that national resilience is not a political ambition but an engineering problem. Titled Make Stuff Here… Or Else, the report introduces the concept of the “Sovereignty Countdown”: the measured window…

3D Printing Industry
Jun 20, 2026Added 3 months ago
Consumer

Havelar Prints a Public Building in Nine Days and Delivers It on Budget

Portuguese firm Havelar erected a 500 m² recycling center office at the Ecocentro de Perafita in Porto for the Matosinhos municipality using a COBOD BOD2 3D printer, a four-person crew, and nine working days. More unusually still, the project came in on budget, a feat the partners themselves described as rare for public works in…

3D Printing Industry
Jun 20, 2026Added 3 months ago
Consumer

IMTS 2026 to Host Nine Conferences, Including New Industrial AI Event

The International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 2026 will feature an expanded conference program spanning nine events and more than 90 sessions, with new additions targeting industrial artificial intelligence, investors, and the Spanish-speaking manufacturing community. The show runs September 14–19 at McCormick Place in Chicago. A Broader Educational Offering Owned and produced by The Association For…

3D Printing Industry
Jun 20, 2026Added 3 months ago
Friday, June 19
Thursday, June 18
Consumer

Simple 3D-Printed Stencil Tips and Tricks for More Versatile Airbrushing

In this article, I'd like to show a few examples of using 3D printed airbrushing stencils: various masks and paint shields that let you paint all kinds of shapes on the surface of your model. Even though commercially available stencils are usually... The post Simple 3D-Printed Stencil Tips and Tricks for More Versatile Airbrushing appeared first on Original Prusa 3D Printers.

Original Prusa 3D Printers
Jun 18, 2026Added 4 months ago
Industrial

US Continues to Transfer Expeditionary 3D Printing Know-How to the Pacific

At this year’s Balikatan event, an annual joint exercise hosted by the Philippines military with participation from Western allies, the US military trained Filipino troops in expeditionary manufacturing enabled by...

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Jun 18, 2026Added 4 months ago
Industrial

How Digital Manufacturing Is Accelerating Medical Innovation

Discover how digital manufacturing is accelerating medical innovation through faster product development, patient-specific devices, on-demand production, and more agile healthcare supply chains. The post How Digital Manufacturing Is Accelerating Medical Innovation appeared first on Shapeways Blog.

Shapeways Blog
Jun 18, 2026Added 4 months ago
Industrial

3D Printed Chip Packaging Specialist XTPL Enters Japanese Market

The additive manufacturing (AM) industry naturally wants to move beyond prototyping to production at scale, and the industry is certainly starting to demonstrate success with that objective, especially in Asia....

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Jun 18, 2026Added 4 months ago
Consumer

HeyGears G1 Series desktop full-color 3D and UV printer: Technical specifications and pricing

Guangzhou-based 3D printing and digital manufacturing company HeyGears has opened reservations for its G1 Series desktop full-color 3D and UV printer ahead of a planned Kickstarter launch in July. The G1 Series is a compact production system for full-color 3D models, raised 3D textures, and 2D UV printing. The machine can produce full-color models directly…

3D Printing Industry
Jun 18, 2026Added 4 months ago
Consumer

Hybrid 3D Bioprinting Achieves Capillary-Scale Vascular Networks

A collaboration between researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Harvard Medical School has produced a method for 3D printing vascular networks at resolutions approaching the size of the body’s smallest blood vessels. The work, published in Nature Chemical Engineering, addresses one of the central unsolved problems in tissue engineering: how to build vascular…

3D Printing Industry
Jun 18, 2026Added 4 months ago
Wednesday, June 17
Industrial

Fabri Raises $13.5 Million to Create Digital Foundry

Fabri is a startup that wants to create a “digital foundry,” and just raised some funds to help it reach this goal. There are far too few foundries in America....

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Jun 17, 2026Added 4 months ago
Consumer

Hi3D Enhances Its Maker Toolkit, Targeting the Gap Between AI and Printing

Hi3D, the browser-based AI model generation platform built on its proprietary Sparc3D engine, has rolled out a suite of new Maker features aimed at one of the most persistent friction points in consumer 3D printing: turning an AI-generated file into something that can actually be printed without additional CAD work. The centerpiece of the release…

3D Printing Industry
Jun 17, 2026Added 4 months ago
Consumer

U.S. Air Force to Outfit Entire C-17 Fleet with 3D Printed Drag-Reduction Devices

The Air Force Lifecycle Management Center, working alongside the Air Force Research Laboratory and Air Mobility Command, have developed small blade-shaped aerodynamic inserts, formally designated microvanes, and tested them on a limited number of C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft. Each plane received twelve of the devices, each measuring roughly 10 centimeters by 40 centimeters, bonded…

3D Printing Industry
Jun 17, 2026Added 4 months ago
Consumer

Artificial Retinas Manufactured in Orbit Show Superior Results, Offering New Hope for Incurable Vision Loss

Connecticut-based biotech LambdaVision has spent nearly a decade turning the International Space Station (ISS) into its primary manufacturing floor. The company has developed an artificial retina, which is assembled from hundreds of alternating layers of bacteriorhodopsin, a light-sensitive protein. On Earth, gravity creates sedimentation and buoyancy effects that disrupt layer uniformity, driving up material waste…

3D Printing Industry
Jun 17, 2026Added 4 months ago
Consumer

Surface Scan Moves Into Full-Cycle Product Development

Surface Scan, a 3D scanning and printing specialist based in Ramsgate, Kent, has announced it is expanding beyond its origins as a scanning and rapid prototyping bureau to offer end-to-end product design and manufacturing services. The restructured offering covers the complete product development chain: geometry capture through 3D scanning, CAD design and iteration, prototyping, and…

3D Printing Industry
Jun 17, 2026Added 4 months ago
Tuesday, June 16
Industrial

Zellerfeld Buys Volumental

Volumental is a Swedish 3D scanning company that has created, over the past decade, a scan-to-fit solution for use in stores. The company has worked with sports retailers and shoe...

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Jun 16, 2026Added 4 months ago