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Spend less time fixing files. Discover smarter workflows at AMA: Software 2026. Swedish based metal 3D printing company Freemelt has received a prototype order from an unnamed defense company with operations in Sweden. The order is part of an agreement to study whether additive manufacturing (AM) can be used to improve the performance of refractory…
Spend less time fixing files. Discover smarter workflows at AMA: Software 2026. Global 3D printer hardware revenues grew 31% year-on-year (YoY) in the second quarter of 2026, according to new figures from global market intelligence firm CONTEXT. The data points to a return to growth across the additive manufacturing (AM) market, led by a continued…
Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. Metal powder producer Amaero Inc. has priced its initial public offering on the Nasdaq Capital Market at $4.25 per share, selling 4,705,883 shares at an initial public offering price totaling $20 million. After underwriting discounts and estimated expenses, net proceeds come to…
Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. Snapmaker, a 3D printing hardware manufacturer, and Phaetus, a developer of extrusion components for 3D printers, have released the Snapmaker × Phaetus Liber High Flow Hotend for the Snapmaker U1. Liber technology is based on E3D’s FlowCore technology platform. Jiangsu Runice 3D…
3D Printing Industry’s AMA: Software 2026 takes place online on 22 October, with 24 speakers across a full day of presentations and two panels. Registration is free. Additive manufacturing hardware gets most of the attention, but whether a part is printed right first time, and again on the thousandth build, increasingly depends on software. AMA:…
Discover exclusive software insights at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! German additive manufacturing software developer amsight is heading DIQAM (Digital Qualification Framework for Additively Manufactured Space Components), a new European Space Agency (ESA) project aimed at speeding up how 3D printed parts for launchers and spacecraft are qualified. The initiative was…
Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. Nothing has introduced the first portable speakers from its CMF brand, the CMF Speaker S and the larger CMF Speaker M. Both models have removable front panels and volume knobs, and the company has published a guide on its community site for…
Discover exclusive software insights, including from NVIDIA, at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! Technology company NVIDIA has released USD BRep, an open-source geometric modeling library built around its SMLib solid modeling kernel. Published under the Apache 2.0 license, the software provides developers with access to NURBS-based boundary representation (BRep) modeling capabilities,…
Swedish measurement technology company Hexagon has launched HYPERSCAN SR, a fully wireless optical tracking 3D scanner designed for industrial inspection in production environments, supplier facilities and field-service locations. Introduced on October 12, 2026, the system combines WiFi 6 connectivity, swappable batteries and dynamic optical tracking to reduce the preparation required for dimensional inspection. Hexagon says…
Discover exclusive software insights at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! Florida-based construction 3D printer manufacturer AMTG has revealed that three of its G2 gantry systems were used together to produce the printed wall system for the Mella shopping center. Developed by an AMTG customer, the commercial construction project used three synchronized…
Discover exclusive software insights at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! Chinese metal powder producer Jiangsu Vilory Advanced Materials (VMP) has closed a Series C+ equity round of US$14.8 million (RMB 100 million), jointly invested by Jiangsu Guotou and Suneng Co. The money will go mainly toward building the company’s Phase IV…
Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. Roughly two weeks after a Texas jury ordered Bambu Lab to pay Stratasys $27.6 million for infringing four 3D printing patents, the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has found claims in four separate Stratasys patents unpatentable. The rulings do not…
Ahead of the announcement of the Formlabs Form Studio 1, 3D Printing Industry examined comments from CEO Max Lobovsky, recruitment intelligence, a former Apple executive’s appointment, and a revealing promotional announcement in Shenzhen. Together, they pointed towards a company reconsidering the scale of its ambitions. Formlabs has unveiled a new photopolymer 3D printer, extending its…
Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. 3D printer manufacturer Formlabs has announced the Form Studio 1 resin 3D printer that the manufacturer says is the first in its category to carry UL GREENGUARD Gold Certification for indoor air quality. The certification matters more than the price. Resin 3D…
Discover exclusive software insights at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! Construction technology company ICON has announced a $200 million Series D round co-led by Baillie Gifford and funds managed by BlackRock. Capital Factory, CAZ Investments, Moderne Ventures, Moonshots Capital, Norwest, Overmatch, The Syndicate, and Tiger Global also joined, along with other…
Discover exclusive software insights at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! Gränges Powder Metallurgy (GPM), the advanced aluminium materials division of Swedish manufacturer Gränges,is collaborating with metal component specialist Pint and French research institute IRT M2P to develop two aluminium-scandium alloys for Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) 3D printing. The materials are…
Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. Albuquerque-based solid rocket motor (SRM) manufacturer X-Bow Systems, which builds its motors using additive manufacturing (AM), has been selected by Leidos to develop and produce booster motors for the U.S. Army’s Low-Cost Containerized Munition (LCCM), a new low-cost cruise missile. X-Bow announced…
Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. A Chinese toy manufacturer says it has installed roughly 2,300 Snapmaker U1 3D printers for multi-color production. Jinqi Toys, which sells articulated figurines and ornaments on 1688 and Amazon, claims multi-color products have gone from about 5% of its sales revenue to…
Discover exclusive software insights at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! Brooklyn-based architect and computational designer Nicholas Desbiens has launched Fahz 2.0, a new version of his personalized 3D printed vase project, through a Kickstarter campaign running from October 7 to November 2, 2026. Developed under his practice, Desbiens Design Research, the…
Discover exclusive software insights at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! New York 3D printing service Makelab has moved into a 3,840-square-foot facility at MADE: Bush Terminal, a 140,000-square-foot industrial campus on Brooklyn’s Sunset Park waterfront. The company says the move gives it the logistics access, physical infrastructure and production capacity it…
Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have named the winners of the Maturation Initiative for Additive Metals Interchangeability (MIAMI) project call, which carries $12.4M in funding through the Warfighting Investments, Resourcing, and Execution office (OSW WIRE)…
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What should you automate next? Get ideas at AMA: Software 2026. Vienna-based UpNano has introduced 3D Adaptive Resolution (3DAR), a technology that shapes the printing voxel along the X, Y and Z axes during two-photon polymerization (2PP) 3D printing, so that it follows the geometry being built. The first 3DAR-capable printers have been purchased by…
Discover exclusive software insights at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! A US Navy submarine crew has sent an underwater drone out of a flooded torpedo tube. A 3D printed watertight enclosure kept the vehicle linked to the boat throughout. Sailors from USS Pasadena (SSN 752), a Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine, ran…
Discover exclusive software insights at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! AM Europe, the additive manufacturing initiative run by European manufacturing technologies association CECIMO, is urging the European Commission to fund shared qualification pathways for 3D printed parts used in aerospace, defence, energy and medical devices. The call heads a package of…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. Filament maker INSLOGIC and AI 3D asset generation platform Neural4D (N4D) will run a joint creator campaign from October 15 to November 15, 2026, showing makers how to take an idea from a text prompt or image to a finished 3D printed…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Before you invest in another tool, hear from the experts. Join AMA Software. Fusion for Energy (F4E), the European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with AMAZEMET, a Polish small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) working in advanced materials and metal additive manufacturing (metal AM). The…
AM-Platform, a European additive manufacturing (AM) network active since 2007, has become a Core Member of Addliance, the European AM Hubs Alliance. The network connects more than 500 stakeholders across over 25 countries, and its work centers on coordinating AM development and building a shared strategic understanding of the technology in Europe. In its own…
Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. Walking into Protein Studios in Shoreditch for Sifted Summit 2026, the name brought to mind one of the defining artificial intelligence breakthroughs of the pre-ChatGPT era. In November 2020, Google DeepMind announced that AlphaFold had achieved what the organisers of the CASP…
Discover exclusive software insights at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! Resin 3D printing tends to look cleaner in promotion than it does in practice. The print finishes, and then the real work begins. Lifting a dripping build plate, transferring it into a wash station, waiting, moving the model to a separate…