Options for Dental Printing
Overview Options for Dental Printing The dental industry was an early adopter of 3D printing technology in its various forms, understandably so. Many dental prosthetics and dental ...
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3D Printing Use Cases & Applications
Read all about 3D printing use cases and 3D printing applications. Stories from and interviews with companies that use 3D printing in their daily routine.
An Overview Of Silicone 3D Printing
Overview Silicone 3D Printing Silicone is a relatively new material in 3D printing, though not due to a lack of demand as its mechanical properties are ideal for countless applications. ...
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3D Printed Lenses for Smart Glasses
Remember Google Glass? It was a nose-mounted smart product that offered the moon and delivered ridicule and paranoia. And do you remember the expectations versus the reality? We were ...
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3D Printing Uses in the Military
We hear a lot about how different industries, medical groups, educators, and hobbyists are using 3D printing technology, but it appears that the military has quickly started to embrace the ...
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How 3D Printing Can Reduce Time and Cost During Product Development
For businesses, the process of developing and bringing new products to the market is absolutely essential, but it can also be slow, expensive, and in some cases outright frustrating. R&D ...
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3D Printing in Education
Applying 3D printing in education has a wide variety of important uses in primary and secondary schools, universities, libraries, technical colleges, and other educational settings. 3D ...
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Sierra Turbines 3D Prints Microturbines that are 40% More Efficient
While some in the manufacturing world are slow to adopt metal 3D printing, Roger Smith is not one of them. As the CEO of Sierra Turbines, he plans to completely revamp the microturbine ...
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“Serial Kilter” Cosplayer Creates 3D Printed Heavy Infantry Mandalorian Armor
What happens when cosplayer Dan Simon gets an Ultimaker 3 3D printer to help make PPE during a pandemic and then discovers that he can also use it to make his dream “Kilted 3D printed heavy ...
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3D Printing for Emergency and Police Vehicles
In this week’s Customer Spotlight, we hear from emergency and police vehicles upfitter, R&D engineer, and 3D Universe customer Ian Gerstein. He uses an Ultimaker 2 Extended+ to make 3d ...
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Thermally Conductive Polymer Materials for 3D Printing
Over the last few weeks we have been taking a look at various polymers with added engineering functionality. So far we have looked at those with altered electrical properties such as ...
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3D Printed Liquid Rocket Injector Head Reduces Weight, Heat, and Lead Times
When the engineers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, or DLR) Institute of Structures and Design were tasked with designing the liquid rocket engine ...
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Classic Car Carburetor Replica by Tecron & Markforged
Markforged has released a report highlighting a whole bunch of case studies from users of their range of machines, both carbon composite and indirect metal printing. Let’s take a look at an ...
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Electrically Conductive Polymer Composites for 3D Printing
Last week we took a look at ESD safe materials for 3D printing. These are materials that are safe against electrostatic discharge, and have uses largely in electronics manufacturing. This ...
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ESD Safe Materials for 3D Printing
The mechanical properties of 3D printed thermoplastic materials have been fairly well explored at this point. Sure there is always room for improvement… gradually, over time, researchers ...
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Atherton Bikes 3D Printed Titanium Lugs
They say poachers make the best gamekeepers, so you could probably extend that idiom to bike manufacturing, especially where it comes to UK startup Atherton Bikes. Atherton Bikes are run ...
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Create Isotropic Parts With 3D Systems’ Figure 4
As anyone who has ever touched a 3D printer knows by now, many different additive manufacturing processes result in anisotropy of the part. That is to say, the part’s strength varies along ...
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Miele Offers 3D Printables on Thingiverse
German appliance manufacturer Miele are offering CAD files for the 3D printing of extra components for their own range of appliances. According to Miele’s website they are “the first ...
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3D Printing for Spines
Medical 3D printing news of the last few months has been dominated largely by coronavirus-themed stories. Masks, ventilators, valves… even vaccine discovery aided with 3D printing. But ...
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3D Printing and COVID-19
As countries around the world grapple with the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), there have been several 3D printing-related occurrences worth reporting. Last month we told you about ...
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3D Printed Submarine Parts Ready for Serial Production
Our recent article on a 3D printed underwater scooter ended with a prediction that we’ll be seeing a 3D printed submarine soon. While we’re still not quite there, a significant step in that ...
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