If you're hunting for free laser cut files, we've found some great sites that'll help you hone those lasering skills.
The €75,000 ceramic 3D printer offers an open material system and an upgrade path for users looking to scale up.
For once, All3DP's lab printers aren't being put through their paces for reviews, tortured with benchmark prints, or feeding our increasingly concerning fidget spinner addiction. Instead, our senior editor Matt has commandeered nearly every printer in the lab for one gloriously oversized mission: creating a nearly three-meter-wide 3D printed assembly for our Craftcloud by All3DP booth at Formnext. Because why start small when you have an entire room full of 3D printers and questionable impulse control?
See it for yourself at Formnext in Frankfurt, Nov. 17–20, Hall 12.1, Booth E66.
Available for preorder and shipping within the next couple weeks, Elegoo's first 3D scanner cuts the cord, streaming scan data to your computer via high-speed Wi-fi or cable.
Bambu Lab's first big step into benchtop laser cutting and engraving is a confident one. You get a generous work area in a tight footprint, and there are plenty of accessories to expand what you do with that space.
By combining a symmetrical micro-beam with 3D-printed vibration dampening, this enclosed Class 1 engraver aims to eliminate the directional blur that plagues standard diode machines.
Meshy, Tripo, Rodin, and others will be accessible through a single platform, complete with tools for making generated models print-ready.
3D printing threads and screws that fit is a challenge. Check out this simple guide to learn how to successfully design and print them!
If you've been waiting to get your hands on the X2D, now's the time to act. Bambu Lab's Black Friday sale is now on, offering steep discounts on filament, printers, and accessories.
What do we know about Bambu Lab's next 3D printer? Not much, but the company has apparently left us a few breadcrumbs. Photos from certification filings reveal the P3C, a seemingly compact, enclosed P-series 3D printer with what looks like a seven-head tool-changing system. Think P2S, but with a serious case of multiple personalities. Pricing and launch timing remain a mystery. Seven heads are better than one, but none of them is talking.
Hi3D is open-sourcing one of its 3D models, while Meshy is bringing its tools to an open-source AI assistant. Both moves could put AI-powered 3D model creation in more places in your 3D printing processes.
Channeling the hackability of the original Ender 3, Creality has started to release STEP files and, eventually, code for its SparkX i7. The great irony? It's using Prusa's tactically developed, anti-clone Open Community License – a license developed to fence Prusa's work off from the companies it complains exploited it – to do it. You can adapt, change, and use the files all you want – just don't try to sell what you build. Creality is, of course, within its rights to use the license. It doing so gives weight to the source-available hardware framework Prusa is championing.
The new dryer combines dual heating elements, active dehumidification, and dry-while-printing functionality. It's listed for $149.99 in the U.S., but isn't in stock yet.
The new industrial 3D printer combines a 140°C heated chamber, dual 450°C extruders, and automated features for manufacturing large parts from engineering-grade polymers.
just don't ask it to knit you a sweater. Researchers at TU Delft want your Bambu Lab A1 to take up knitting. They've designed FilaLoom, an open-source DIY attachment using a tool-changing system to alternate between extruding plastic and embedding yarn into prints, producing everything from squishy, fabric-like surfaces to woven structures and cable-driven moving parts. The mod STLs, assembly instructions, and Grasshopper scripts for generating custom G-code are all free so you can give your own A1 a crafty little identity crisis.
And it's unambiguously a toolchanger, sharpening our view that such multi-tool enabled printing really is a new norm in desktop printing – multi-material capable printers, right out of the box.
So far they've shown 9 tools on a dock that can shifts up out of view it seems. From this shrouded detail-thin teaser, what do you think?
Thingiverse's model library of some 2-million models will be integrated with Anycubic's products in the future, starting with a bridge to Anycubic's MakerOnline repository. Part of the agreement will see select models from Thingiverse converted from STL to 3MF, shortening print setup time.
Thingiverse' relaunch towards open source hardware and the rejection of AI, and Anycubic being, well, largely not that suggest its more a move born from pragmatism than the ideology presented. In any case, this new bridge will directly expose models to potential printerers, which can't be a bad thing.
Free accessories, extra filament, and extended warranties sweeten the deal on Prusa's 3D printers, though outright price cuts are mostly reserved for materials and accessories.
Get a first look at MIRACO 2, Revopoint's upcoming all-in-one multi-mode laser 3D scanner, alongside the RANGE 3 Series, featuring wide-field, high-speed scanning, color and texture capture with color-assisted alignment.
Company releases video teaser showing nine-tool printer, revealing the name and a date we can expect to see more.