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The New Massivit 5000 Is… Massive

The Israeli 3D printer manufacturer Massivit 3D certainly lives up to its namesake with the recent release of the Massivit 5000, capable of printing parts 1.8 meters tall. Let’s take a lo...

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Researchers Produce 3D Printed Ivory

Ivory has been historically valued due to its white finish, its relative hardness, as well as of its ease of carving. Chemically speaking, the ivory found in the tusk of an elephant i...

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Impeller Gets Laser-clad Facelift

Laser metal deposition (LMD) is proving more and more useful to industry, as this recent impeller repair has shown. LMD, also known as directed energy deposition (DED) or direct metal ...

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New 3D Printed Wood is ALL Wood

Wood! It’s nature’s composite material! Carbon fiber composites consist of long carbon fibers aligned along the direction of stress, bound up in a polymer (epoxy) matrix. Wood cons...

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Automotive
Porsche Demos 3D Printing for Electric VehiclesAutomotivePorsche Demos 3D Printing for Electric VehiclesYou’d be forgiven for thinking that Porsche are new to the electric vehicle game. In fact, the first cars designed by Ferdinand Porsche himself actually had electric drives...
Bridgestone 3D Prints Tire Molds to Improve TractionAutomotiveBridgestone 3D Prints Tire Molds to Improve TractionMcLaren is 3D printing Titanium wheels and Carbon Performance is printing Aluminum brake calipers, so what about tires? It turns out that they’re at Bridgestone ...
BMW 3D Printing Superbike Components at the TrackAutomotiveBMW 3D Printing Superbike Components at the TrackGerman automaker BMW is very big on additive manufacturing, especially when it comes to their research and development, having recently opened the doors to their Additive Manufacturing ...
Aerospace
NASA uses Blown Powder Method to Scale up RocketsAerospaceNASA uses Blown Powder Method to Scale up RocketsNASA have been experimenting not only with powder bed fusion but also with blown powder directed energy deposition, as part of their Rapid Analysis and Manufacturing Propulsion Technology (RAMPT) project.
Digital Twins and 3D Printing for Army HelicoptersAerospaceDigital Twins and 3D Printing for Army HelicoptersWe are seeing more and more stories at the intersection of 3D printing and Digital Twin / VR technology recently, especially it seems in the domain of aerospace engineering. In this ...
Researchers Develop CoNi-Based Superalloys for 3D PrintingAerospaceResearchers Develop CoNi-Based Superalloys for 3D PrintingOne of the hurdles that’s still being overcome in metal 3D printing is the ability to print with superalloys. The most common forms of metal printing that involve selectively melting metal ...
Military
Military Eyes Topology Optimized Heat ExchangersMilitaryMilitary Eyes Topology Optimized Heat ExchangersThe Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) sure loves additive manufacturing, as we have shown in the past. Their latest venture into AM involves a ...
US Navy Tests Conductive Plastic AM Radar ComponentsMilitaryUS Navy Tests Conductive Plastic AM Radar ComponentsAntennas need to be electrically conductive, so they either need to be manufactured from a conductive material (metal, typically) or else be made from an insulator coated in a ...
DoD Contracts ExOne to Develop 3D Printing “Factory in a Shipping Container”MilitaryDoD Contracts ExOne to Develop 3D Printing “Factory in a Shipping Container”The US military is no stranger to 3D printing, what with their commissioning the largest metal printer and testing conductive plastic 3D printed antenna. A recent contract from the DoD ...
Medical
Hearing Products get Accelerated Development WorkflowMedicalHearing Products get Accelerated Development WorkflowCustom earware is not limited to hearing aids. Learn how ACS has set out to bring bespoke hearing protection ...
Drug-infused AM Stent Treats Oesophagus CancerMedicalDrug-infused AM Stent Treats Oesophagus CancerResearchers at the University of South Australia (UniSA) in Adelaide, Australia, have manufactured an esophageal stent which can help treat cancer patients. Stents are small tubes that ...
Prototyping a Modular Mass Ventilator System – MassVentil ProjectMedicalPrototyping a Modular Mass Ventilator System – MassVentil ProjectA recently developed ventilator has been unveiled by a team of researchers from Hungary, and they hope that the modular system, which has been designed with the aid of additive ...
Reviews
Flashforge Guider 2SReviewsFlashforge Guider 2SIt’s clear at this point that the Guider 2S is not being overbilled as an industrial-grade 3D printer. It is one. The requirements of an industrial printer are: accuracy, repeatability, dependability, and the ability to print with industry-standard materials...
Dremel DigiLab 3D45ReviewsDremel DigiLab 3D45The 3D45 gave me the best nylon print results I’ve ever had with an FFF/ FDM desktop 3D printer...
Craftbot FLOW IDEX XLReviewsCraftbot FLOW IDEX XLThe FLOW IDEX XL may be a bit intimidating with all of its bells and whistles (and mass) but it’s actually very user friendly. It really is built like a tank with linear rails rather than the standard rods, and everything is metal, which means print quality is high...