Following its invitation-only February launch, Prusa fully released the cloud slicer earlier this week.

The feature-limited 3MF generator feels like a stripped-down PrusaSlicer, and is great for quick prints you'd probably use basic settings for anyway. But it can be used from a browser or the Prusa mobile app. There are some tradeoffs compared to community print profiles, like no custom supports, but fills the gap with other flexibilities like plating multiple files in one print. Prusa has hinted at a possible subscription option for project cloud storage, but not for now.

If 3D printing were as popular on earth as it seems to be off world, we'd be surrounded by 3D printed parts already. From these Michelin 3D printed rover wheels to NASA's Moon to Mars Planetary Autonomous Construction Technology (i.e. 3D printing with planet soil) to the new 3D printed rocket thrusters from X-Bow Systems that will get us there — in space tech, 3D printing is the method of choice.

The art installation "Harmonic Tides" featuring 3D printed walls made from custom-fabricated sugar-based polylactic acid (PLA) will debut next week in London. Designed by architect Arthur Mamou-Mani, the "water corridor", as he calls it — which looks a lot like the pavilion he created for Dubai Design Week a few years ago — won first prize in the Shaping Water Competition, organised by the magazine Dezeen. The art is made from Mamou-Mani's crushed and reprinted previous work, and will be recycled for the next.

In the same late-April update that unlocked the AMS 2 and AMS HT drying functions on Bambu Lab's X- and P-series 3D printers, the X1C interface was changed to match the H2D. Of course, if you haven't yet, updating your firmware may require you to download Bambu Lab's controversial 1.08.05 security update.

In addition to quadrupling the possible size of your workspace (now 2,000 units squared), you can change the workspace units from the default millimeters and inches to centimeters, meters, and feet. That, and apply a scaling factor of up to 1:1000.

The math hurts my head, but a post by Tinkercad about the changes shows how it's possible to fit an actual-size model of the Empire State Building into the app, something that would be impossible before.

There's just one model for now – a replacement beard comb for its OneBlade razor – but the program will result in a "digital library of open-access 3D-printable replacement parts for selected Philips products," says LePub, Philips' partner in the initiative.

Philips is just the latest to join Printables' now rather expansive Brands program, which encourages companies to share official mods, repair parts, and interesting models.

With Adidas renewing attention on single-piece 3D-printed sneakers with its new Climacool shoes, home-printing options are expanding rapidly, too.

Recreus' footwear-focused Filaflex filaments have recently been updated to introduce subtle new colors through a collaboration with Footwearology – a design lab and educational resource for shoe fabrication. Besides their regular colors, the company's Filaflex Foamy, Foamy 95, and 82A filaments are now available in Oat (pictured), Lavender, Mint, Azure, and Dusk hues.

China and the U.S. have agreed to a temporary 90-day reduction of 115% on their blanket tariffs. But don’t pop the champagne just yet. Printing prices that have stepped up over recent months are unlikely to drop suddenly. The costs incurred so far need to be eaten by someone, and could well end up spread across any new stocks imported under the lower rates.