Biqu will release the Panda Cyborg kit for the Bambu Lab P1S and P1P soon, transforming the printers into a Klipper-powered playground. That, and an unexpected sweet treat were the highlights of a colorful year at Formnext for the company.
Flashforge brought a noticeably quieter presence to Formnext than previous years, foregoing the flashy hardware reveals typical of the Frankfurt event.
But even there it can come from unexpected places. A nondescript table appeared today at Bambu Lab's booth, showing off a bunch of heavy, highly polished metallic looking pieces. Like the CyberBrick was once a stealthy, interactive exhibit at the company's stand, perhaps we'll see a high metal-content filament from them soon, too.
At least so says Recreus, flexible filament specialists whose Formnext highlight solves the difficulties of high-speed printing soft flexibles: a new filament size. Soon, the company will offer a 2.20 mm flexible filament alongside the standard 1,75 mm. The logic goes that 2.85 mm filament takes too long to melt properly, and 1.75mm buckles too easily.
This new goldilocks size melts juuust right for higher-flow printing of flexibles at PLA-like print speeds, they say. Recreus-made Bambu Lab and Prusa Nextruder compatible nozzles, required for this optimal new size, will also launch soon.
The major hardware announcements mark expansions into engineering-competent large-volume desktop printing, plus an upped game in resin performance for Anycubic. Co-founder and CTO James Ouyang tells us all.
This year’s Formnext doesn’t just belong to Bambu Lab and the H2C, with the Prusa Core One and One L to get next-gen “passive” toolchanging powered by the Bondtech INDX.
Unveiled at Formnext 2025 in Frankfurt, TPM3D says its space-saving setup aims to bring pro-grade SLS performance to studios, labs, and small production teams.
Fresh from Formnext 2025: SUNLU targets both engineers and artists with ultra-strong filaments, CMYK resins, and a smart hardware add-on for Bambu Lab users.
At Formnext, UnionTech showcases two new SLA systems, self-developed resins, and a huge 1.5-meter demo part.
Bambu Lab’s new H-series machine is an “uncompromising” take on no-waste multi-material printing, delivered via a new induction-based nozzle changing system called Vortek.
The new M4 Onyx promises 50% higher throughput and part costs slashed by about 30% compared to previous systems, plus 90% powder recovery.
Coming to crowdfunding later this year, Anycubic’s next resin 3D printer reads like a beefed up Photon Mono M7 Pro for, well, pros.
The tech giant wants to offer an affordable entry point. Eagle-eyed engineers will notice the "new" machines look suspiciously like 3DGence workhorses.
The strategic move to invest in Tritone Technologies answers customer demand for a single vendor that can handle everything from prototyping polymers to industrial-grade metal.
A combination of cease and desists, plus threatened direct legal action marks a firmer tack from MakerWorld in the choppy waters of online content sharing and, inevitably, 3D model piracy.
Go beyond simple image generation with the world’s first crafting AI agent, designed to eliminate the tedious gap between a brilliant idea and a finished product.
Formlabs at Formnext will debut a new large cure machine, new engineering-grade resins, and updated software.
Today, one of the main barriers to adopting scanning isn’t cost, it’s confidence. HP’s Michel Georges Encrenaz and Creaform’s Gabrielle Williams share expert advice for turning real-world objects into ready-to-print files.
News of the Centauri Carbon’s possible multicolor dead-end comes just ahead of Centauri Carbon 2 which can print multicolor out of the box.
A teaser posted to social media leaves little left unknown about BigTreeTech’s Klipper-compatible, filament drying, RFID-reading automatic filament changer.