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Get infill density and pattern wrong and your print wastes filament, snaps, or takes forever to print. Read on to learn how to get it right.
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Aiming to "solve the frustration of filament tuning," LayerHub is Polymaker's new hub for 3D printer users to download, validate, and share their own filament presets using the methodology it uses to tune for its own filaments.
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Autodesk has joined the grand tradition of announcing AI features before they actually exist. The company today announced plans to beef up Autodesk Assistant AI in Fusion so it can use project context to flag problems, trace knock-on effects, and help across design and manufacturing workflows. Users will also be able to hook in their own AI tools. For now, though, this is a roadmap, not a release. The expanded Assistant isn’t generally available, and Autodesk says rollout details are coming in 2027.
Get infill density and pattern wrong and your print wastes filament, snaps, or takes forever to print. Read on to learn how to get it right.
gathering user feedback about its software and how it could be better at the little things – all in preparation for launching what it calls Anycubic Software 2.0. The release brings a raft of updates that touches both Anycubic Slicer Next and the Anycubic App. Highlights include making features like spaghetti detection toggleable in-app, syncing materials settings, better support for third-party filament in the material library, and adding file search and full print history to the slicer. It's a solid collection of quality-of-life improvements.
Aiming to "solve the frustration of filament tuning," LayerHub is Polymaker's new hub for 3D printer users to download, validate, and share their own filament presets using the methodology it uses to tune for its own filaments.
When you master supports in Bambu Studio, you improve supported surfaces, make removal easier, save time, and reduce wasted filament.
3D Spark’s new Voluminate platform promises to turn old drawings, DXFs, and even photos into useful 3D models in minutes. That sounds ideal for obsolete spare parts, so we tried it.
Makera has gotten its software ducks in a row to accommodate the intended audience for its beginner-friendly Z1 machine, and it all looks very familiar.
G-code may run quietly in the background, but understanding it can give you more control over your printer and help you solve problems faster.
Prusa's next major update for its slicer marks a new chapter for the software, built from the ground up for multi-toolhead machines, multi-plate projects, and a new plug-in marketplace to wrangle rogue single-feature forks into a useful library for all.
The browser-based CAD platform’s experimental AI Assistant generates functional assemblies, organic meshes, and profile-based designs from text with image references supported, too.
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Meshy’s latest image-to-3D AI engine is all about alignment, making the generated model actually resemble the image you fed it before you get to the mesh.
Forget awkwardly holding parts together while explaining where everything goes. Bambu Studio’s new Model Assembly Guides feature in the 2.8.0 Public Beta lets you present an exploded view of your project directly in the software and automatically split the model into assembly steps downloadable as PDFs or MP4s.
Check out our choice of photogrammetry software available right now for virtual reality, gaming, mapping, construction, drones, defense, and so much more!
The experimental SegviGen system can automatically identify individual components within a 3D model, and its researchers have already released the code, pretrained models, and an interactive demo.
We used Hi3D Studio to divide a humanoid model, add articulated connectors, and arrange the resulting parts for printing. The tools produced a usable result, but several essential steps have a learning curve.
Step up from TinkerCAD with this open-source parametric modeling tool that turns surface patterns into physical, 3D-printable geometry without needing a subscription—just keep in mind it's still an early beta.
Autodesk's Fusion CAD software is a powerful tool, but it's not supported by Linux. Read on for a few workarounds to get Fusion on Linux!
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The tablet-centric design app (but also available on desktop,) Shapr3D now lets you export your 3D models directly to PrusaSlicer and EasyPrint, for an immediate design-to-print workflow. This is great news not just for owners of Prusa's 3D printers – EasyPrint is Prusa's cloud-based slicer, and it can send prints to many non-Prusa 3D printers via LAN, too. It offers all the essential controls needed to set up and send jobs to your printer, cutting full slicing software out of the picture.
