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New for Bambu Lab's first-gen CoreXY machines, E3D now offers Bastion Coated Gears – a £45 (~$60) drop-in replacement for the X1C, X1E, P1S and P1P 3D printers. The main draw is a diamond-like carbon coating on the drive gears and hobbs that's hard-wearing and self-lubricating, E3D says.
Colorway completionists won't be able to pair them with the purple high-flow ObXiDian 500 nozzles – only the newer Bambu Lab machines get those – but as a standalone upgrade for your long-running X1C, X1E, P1P, or P1S, it's likely a fine and funky addition all the same.
Launching as the standalone Centauri 2 3D printer, and the Centauri 2 Combo bundle with Elegoo's Canvas filament switcher, the new printers are available at discounted launch pricing for a limited time.
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The thought occurred to me this last week that the explicit notice in 3D printer handbooks against leaving them unattended has quietly disappeared. Chalk it up to manufacturers' confidence in the failsafes and design of their machines in 2026 perhaps. Of the modern printer handbooks that I scrubbed through to check my thinking for this poll, I could find only Prusa persisting with such a note.
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Following the launch of its Innovation Fund earlier this month, the content team at Snapmaker has published a lengthy interview with the lead maintainers of OrcaSlicer, plus Radu, the developer of FullSpectrum, that answers that very question, as well as gleans insight on the origins of the Orca, as well as the challenges and thought-processes behind maintaining one of the most-used slicers in 3D printing.
To recap, Prusa's solution to companies stealing its and others' work is the open community licence (OCL), a set of usage terms the company designed to give it and others publishing works under it a more effective stick to beat violators with.
The OCL v1.1 update introduces a plugin system for adding additional clauses without cluttering and confusing the simple core license, as well as tightens copyleft. The company announced the update in a blog post that also signals the introduction CERN OHL-S v2 as an option on Printables.
The M1D mixes the traditional benefits of IDEX like copy and mirror modes with the flexibility of a toolchanger. Currently in a deposit scheme, it'll eventually launch on Kickstarter, starting at $1,499.
Revopoint’s expansion into workflow-enhancing 3D scanning forms continues with the Trackit, a multi-mode laser 3D scanner that, paired with its companion tracking tower, eliminates the need for painstaking use of tracking dots.
Swedish exhaust specialist Ferrita used a Meltio robotic wire-laser DED system to produce two matching stainless-steel side-exhaust tip assemblies for a customized Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, reportedly halving the cost of conventional production.
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The M1D mixes the traditional benefits of IDEX like copy and mirror modes with the flexibility of a toolchanger. Currently in a deposit scheme, it'll eventually launch on Kickstarter, starting at $1,499.
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Revopoint’s expansion into workflow-enhancing 3D scanning forms continues with the Trackit, a multi-mode laser 3D scanner that, paired with its companion tracking tower, eliminates the need for painstaking use of tracking dots.