I just completed the long-awaited Bambu Lab A1 heat bed retrofit project, and can tell you all about it. The retrofit was the outcome of a substantial recall by Bambu Lab. This was required after the ...

Microscopic view of bacteria spores inside TPU material [Source: Nature] Researchers have developed a unique way to decompose specific plastics: with embedded bacteria. If you haven’t noticed, we are ...

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi explore how grassroots initiatives in Ukraine are leveraging 3D printing to rapidly ...

Autodesk celebrates Inventor’s silver jubilee with many enhancements. It was 25 years ago that Autodesk introduced Inventor for MCAD, the replacement for Mechanical Desktop. How time flies. Autodesk ...

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi explore how grassroots initiatives in Ukraine are leveraging 3D printing to rapidly scale drone production.

A new research paper proposes an unusual 3D printing process that uses a rod instead of a flat print plate. Print plates are ...

Charles R. Goulding and Mellissa McIntyre discuss the partnership between Materialise, Stirling Dynamics and Proponent. In ...

Bambu Lab took to Reddit to perform an “Ask Me Anything” session. Did they reveal anything of interest? There are pages and ...

Mantle’s technology is focused on an unusual printing process they call “TrueShape”. It uses a paste extruder to precisely deposit a metal-rich layer. This is heated to remove binder and sinter the ...

They use NURBS (Non-uniform rational B-splines) as the basis of their modeling. NURBS are mathematical models that describe ...