We’re putting Protopasta’s new High Impact Carbon Fiber PCTG to the test, and honestly? It’s just flexing at this point. We’re printing a heavy-duty, snap-close broom holder (a remix by Simple£D on MakerWorld), and the print process has been pretty flawless and effortless on our lab's Prusa CoreOne L. Carbon fiber strength with zero drama? So far, we’re impressed. More on PCTG coming this week.
Discover five essential practices that will help you achieve "first-pass-right" sheet metal designs, avoid costly rework, and streamline your fabrication process.
Bambu Lab’s critics continue to line up to take shots at the company. Following the company's pressure to take an OrcaSlicer fork that restores the connection to its cloud service offline, attention has sharpened onto an alleged AGPL license violation that may have lived within Bambu Studio since its launch in 2022. Bambu Lab contests this.
This new additive material offers food-processing plants a rapid, cost-effective method to produce custom gaskets, seals, and production-line parts at fraction of the time of traditional manufacturing.
Industrial-grade precision meets accessible pricing. The handheld VoxMeta H1 Pro aims to replace five-figure industrial systems for professional workflows.
There’s a big market for 3D printed items. But before selling them, understand what things you can and can’t 3D print and sell with our updated guide.
From custom star maps to personalized keychains, Atomm CraftLab Generators lets you design, preview, and export production files in seconds, no software needed.
After a 3D printed turbine prototype successfully passed a grueling six-year continuous operational test, the ORNL-backed technology is now ready to scale, offering a cost-cutting blueprint to unlock clean energy at thousands of U.S. dams.
Between FullSpectrum slicer in March, Bambu Lab integrating it directly into its software, and new tools like ColorStack making it possible to print color texture data directly on a regular 3D printer, things are looking vibrant in desktop 3D printing.
And it's all possible from software that can interpolate between different color filaments – having them optically blend to give the appearance of another color altogether. Some folks are pushing it far, but right now it's too wasteful to do without a toolchanger. Say toolchangers become the standard one day – are you on board with it?
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The Lumos Ultra integrates 6W UV and 60W/100W MOPA laser technology to deliver high-precision engraving, metal processing, and advanced finishing capabilities for makers and small businesses.
By integrating Meltio’s metal wire DED technology, Italian specialist Eurobearings is replacing weeks of traditional machining and welding with days of additive manufacturing to repair and produce massive industrial components.
and with it, the groundwork to make the effect repeatable and consistent. This model on MakerWorld shows off 292 distinct printable colors from five source PLA filaments – cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and white – printed on a Bambu Lab H2C. The project comes with a recipe book of sorts, describing the precise ratios to reproduce each color, helpfully split out into palettes, including skin tones.
With a massive 800mm build volume and a 3kg/hour extrusion rate, Peopoly’s pellet-fed disruptor is built to slash material costs by 90% and replace expensive industrial systems.
The OrcaSlicer fork pulled from GitHub following the threat of a cease-and-desist letter last month is back. The slicer, which reconnected the popular third-party slicer to Bambu Lab's cloud infrastructure without Bambu Connect – control middleware the company launched early last year – is now hosted by right-to-repair advocate Louis Rossmann and PC media outlet GamersNexus, with both publicly daring Bambu Lab to sue them over it.
Bambu Lab has not responded publicly to the rehosting. The slicer is now more accessible than it was before the company intervened.
From basic options to advanced ones, check out the best free tools to repair or edit digital model files, from Tinkercad to Blender, and more.
Built for mixed-material projects, the LaserPecker LX2 is a workshop-ready laser cutter and engraver, with a modular design for both hobbyist and professional use.
Berlin-based BigRep and Endless Industries are bringing continuous carbon fiber reinforcement to the BigRep IPSO 105, targeting stronger large-format parts at lower cost than traditional composite manufacturing.
Coupled with machines starting at $15,000, ErectorBot’s hopes its Aibuild software integration can tame the complexity of industrial-scale printing, and make it accessible for any size manufacturer.
With .07 mm accuracy and .10 mm resolution, the Fox scans items up to 1.2 m with ease despite its ultralight form factor.