3D Printing Media Network

VormVrij, a Dutch manufacturer of clay 3D printers, has introduced its latest model: the LUTUM v4. The new machine, unveiled as a prototype at Fabcon+RapidTech in Messe Erfurt earlier this month, integrates a number of upgrades for more versatile and overall better clay prints. For starters, with a build envelope …

Scaling a business is always challenging but it’s an important factor when considering if your “idea” has the legs for the long run. Keeping the balance between your investments and understanding how secure your future really is is an art form by itself. Elon Musk compares running a company to …

San Francisco bioprinting company Prellis Biologics has announced a milestone in its aim to 3D bioprint human tissues with viable blood vessel networks (or capillaries). The company claims to have “reached record speed and resolution” in their bioprinting, which enables tissues to be printed with capillary networks while ensuring that …

McLaren officially extended its partnership with Stratasys, Alfa Romeo Sauber just purchased five new 3D printers from 3D Systems and now even Ferrari, perhaps the most legendary team in Formula 1, and one or the most loved Italian brands, revealed in an article published on the Renishaw blog that their …

Stratasys Strategic Consulting come up with this idea to see just how many different polymeric materials today’s 3D printing technologies are currently able to process. Before you scroll to the bottom for the juicy infographic, take a stab at it yourself. How many thermoplastics do you think the industry is currently …

SmarTech Publishing just released its latest report on the opportunities for AM in automotive production and automotive additive manufacturing market forecast. This 200-page report contains over 80 forecast charts and tables with which we have worked to quantify the possible revenues generated by all additive manufacturing segments within the automotive sector, …

Generative design uses cloud computing and artificial intelligence to accelerate design exploration beyond what’s humanly possible. That’s why Autodesk is now working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer even more compute power to the first 1,000 new Fusion 360 subscribers who want to get started with generative design. The …

There is often a tendency in media coverage of the AM industry to position additive manufacturing as a game-changing technology that will replace traditional manufacturing processes. Now that the industry has come into its own, it now seems clear that the technology (indeed a game-changer) has been adopted as a …

Local Motors, the U.S. company behind the 3D printed Strati car and the autonomous Olli shuttle, has been a pioneering force in the intersecting additive and automotive industries. It seems that the company has even higher ambitions than bringing its own innovative vehicles to roads, however, as it just announced …

Metropole, a French visual marketing agency that has embraced large format 3D printing by Massivit, has created an ultra-realistic, full-size 3D printed triceratops to promote a new paleontology exhibition at Paris’ Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle. With the objective to drive visitor footfall to the museum’s exhibition, the visually-striking dinosaur was …