3D Printing News
Available now for $89.99, the self-billed 8-in-1 air quality monitor covers a broad spectrum of 3D printing emissions, though not all.
The modular dual-head printer is designed to decorate everything from acrylic and metal to T-shirts and transfer decals, with pre-order pricing starting at $1,699.
PrintPal promises a city miniature from just a name. For America’s 250th, I chose the nation’s capital to see if it lives up to its claim.
Prusa's flash summer sale knocks 20% off the assembled MK4S 3D printer, marking a new all-time low price. Other discounts stretch to free or reduced shipping on the Core One+, running through July 14.
A new market forecast from Additive Manufacturing Research details how surging defense demands and low-cost polymer printing may drive a sixfold expansion for the drone 3D printing sector by 2034.
Bambu Lab launched a store loyalty program in June. Called Bambu Credits, the scheme returns roughly 1% of what you spend as cash-value store credit, and can be used directly at checkout on subsequent orders.
Bondtech has announced that the INDX Development Kit will be available to order from Friday, July 3, at 9 AM CEST (3 AM Eastern/12 AM Pacific). Excellent news if you have a DIY machine you want to graft Bondtech's lean, inductively-heated nozzle swapping mechanism onto.
Due to limited stock, the company advises you to log in to the Bondtech website ahead of launch day, and to be ready minutes before the product goes live. Pricing has not yet been revealed, but Bondtech has indicated it will be higher than the limited-run Founder's Edition.
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.
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.
Prints can easily run into the tens of hours or longer – meaning we’re all forced to draw our own line on risk. Where does your comfort level actually sit?
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.
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.
with MGM Studios Inc. leaning on 3D model repository Cults to prevent the keyword "stargate" – which MGM owns the trademark for – from returning results. Never mind the fact that there are many other terms relating to the popular military sci-fi show that still return models, using that one specific search term on Cults (and seemingly only Cults) returns nothing.
Cults hasn't responded to a request for comment on the matter but taking it at face value, it's a visible reminder of how truly nonsensical automated IP enforcements by large companies can be.
New five-color series of high speed PLA filament suitable for the company’s CHT Nextruder nozzles boasts up to 40% print time gains in the right conditions, the company says.
The perpetual joke-turned-technical-challenge of running Doom on inappropriate hardware has found its way to the Prusa Core One, courtesy of Nils_N3DP on Reddit. Posted to the r/prusa3D subreddit and documented on Instagram, Nils' effort crammed the first level of the timeless, OG boomer-shooter onto their custom inverted-color Core One (which is itself a marvel – check it out).
But getting one on virtually any filament you could want? That's the rare feeling of a Polymaker Restock sale. Right now, and running through to July 5, 2026, you can grab deals sitewide, like 1 kg spools of Panchroma CoPE for $13, or, a rarer sight, Polymaker's nifty modular PolyDryer drybox system at 20% off.
The compact network appliance gives businesses a secure, local API for connecting Bambu Lab printers to their existing production and manufacturing systems.
Relativity Space is heading to Mars, well, its hardware is. NASA has picked the California-based 3D printed rocket maker to deliver its Aeolus science instruments to the Red Planet in 2028. Relativity will handle the rocket, spacecraft, cruise, and mission management, while NASA’s instruments study Martian winds, dust, clouds, and temperatures to help make future landings less of a white-knuckle affair.
