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.
The compact laser powder bed fusion system is being hyped up as a consumer-grade, garage-friendly 'household' metal 3D printer for $4,888, but its safety remains obscured behind a wall of AI images.
With more filament brands phasing it out in favor of ASA as the better, safer alternative, the answer for most is probably "not recently."
We don't really use ABS much in the All3DP print lab anymore, and a poll we conducted about the best-selling materials across dozens of brands placed ABS nowhere on the list. Today, it's a hyper-niche holdout – a long way from its abundance in the early days of desktop 3D printing.
A Brazilian engineering team used 3D scanning, scan-to-CAD software, and ABS 3D printing to recreate a damaged four-blade propeller for an industrial cooling system in record time.
Shining 3D's new Ceramix-Nano is a dental crown-making appliance, rather than general-purpose 3D printer. Could this concept apply to other industries?
The 'Monolith One' is a laser powder bed fusion 3D printer with 24 kW of laser power, which Divergent plans to use for defense and automotive part production. No, it's not for sale.
Procolored is offering up a heady mix of functions and features in the X One, including the notoriously dirt-generating laser cutting and engraving alongside the notoriously dirt-sensitive UV printing. It’s a bold combination, and one you should think twice before backing.
Despite being acquired twice in the past 14 months, the company is still innovating and releasing new products, specifically, four new cheerful colors of its signature Onyx GF, a chopped glass fiber-filled nylon exclusively for its FX-series industrial 3D printers. Designed for color-coded tooling, fixtures, and safety indicators, the material embeds color directly into the filament so there's no more painting or labeling. Onyx GF also comes in new white and grey. We're excited to see Markforged in the capable hands of Stratasys with that deal officially closing soon.
Snapmaker's U1 toolchanger has dropped back to its post-Kickstarter, pre-retail price of $849 as a part of the company's tenth anniversary celebration. That's good news.
But the great news for U1 users is that Snapmaker is fixing to bankroll community development for the printer, and has launched a $150,000 Innovation Fund. $50K is already set aside for the developers that shaped the printer's launch and early months, but $100K is still up for grabs. Over two rounds, 40 projects can win cash backing following an 80/20 split of expert judging and community voting.
