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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.