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Phrozen's $1,600 Sonic Mighty Revo 16K MAX pairs a 14.7 L build volume with a 14-inch 16K mono LCD, splitting the difference between its sharpest small-format printer and its biggest, coarser one.
Bambu Lab's first product outside 3D printing is a $2,499 CO2 laser that auto-aligns its optical path in about a minute instead of the usual thermal-paper mirror ritual.
Creality's $289 Indiegogo launch, the SPARKX i8, claims sub-1-second color changes and zero purge waste by routing color transitions into a model's infill instead of a prime tower.
Fives AddUp will start U.S. production of its 750 x 750 x 1,000 mm, 12-laser FormUp 750 metal printer at a Hebron, Ohio facility in 2027, adding domestic capacity for aerospace and defense parts alongside its existing French manufacturing.
Tom's Hardware calls the Prusa CORE One L+ update "small, but important" and awards Editor's Choice for a factory nozzle wiper and GT1.5 belts, available as a $25 retrofit, though the review's own pricing is inconsistent.
Dutch startup Tesseract Technologies is pitching ironless, closed-loop linear motors as a direct-drive replacement for belts, piloting on a large-format FELIX Pro XXL IDEX printer, with commercial launch planned for Q1 2027.
Sinto Advanced Ceramics Europe has added non-oxide ceramics AlN and Si3N4 to its 3D-printing lineup, opening the door to printed parts for power electronics, thermal management and high-stress structural applications.
QTREX Quantum posted 438% revenue growth and launched INSU300, a 3D-printable dielectric that laser-converts into graphene-like carbon to shield superconducting qubits from stray photons.
Three Taiwanese designers collected spent tea leaves and coffee grounds from London shops, compounded them with PLA, and robotically printed furniture and lighting for the 2026 London Design Festival.
DEEP Manufacturing says it's running certified, round-the-clock wire arc additive manufacturing across two continents on the strength of a DNV pressure-vessel approval no other European producer holds.
Prusa's new actively foaming PLA prints up to 65% lighter and stretches a spool 2-3x, but it demands a 0.45 extrusion multiplier, careful tuning and drying, and an independent hands-on confirms the stringing and scratching caveats.
IperionX says its continuous GenX furnace ran 500+ kg of titanium powder at about 12 kg/h, hit ASTM oxygen benchmarks, and cut power over 75% versus its own batch HAMR process. It is a feedstock milestone for metal AM.
Kubuz's free browser tool 3dSynth generates G-code directly for vase-mode, spiral and generative FDM prints, bypassing the slicer entirely while still exporting STL when a traditional slicer is needed.
Bambu Studio V2.8.4 Public Beta adds a warning for silently-skipped shrinkage compensation on painted models, tightens infill pathing, and patches a stack buffer overflow in its STL-reading code.
Prusa Research's second public alpha of the ground-up PrusaSlicer 3.0 rebuild squashes the most common alpha11 crashes and adds per-extruder overrides, a camera toggle, and safer 3MF re-imports.
Snapmaker Space exits beta with 2,500+ test-printed, U1-tuned models and a creator-rewards system, staking out ground against Bambu Lab's own repository.
Hi3D's new conversational Agent chains its 2048-cubed-voxel V3.0 model through generation, texturing, part-splitting and color-region tools to take a prompt straight to a print-ready, multi-part file.
After an open beta inside Stratasys's GrabCAD Print, trinckle's 12-app, no-CAD Additive App Suite is now live worldwide and works with any printer, not just Stratasys machines.
A routine Guangming District filing for a temporary construction entrance signals Bambu Lab's sprawling Shenzhen manufacturing complex is finally shifting from land deals to ground-breaking.
Two days after filing its S-1, Tennessee-based metal-powder producer Amaero postponed a $52.6M Nasdaq listing under ticker AMRO, citing adverse market conditions and giving no new timetable.
Massivit 3D's RapidWings service, which prints large-format aerospace tooling in days instead of months, is launching in North America through a partnership with Oregon manufacturer Artek.
A Texas jury found Bambu Lab's X1, P1 and A1 printers willfully infringed four Stratasys patents on prime-tower purging and bed leveling, awarding $27.6 million — with a second, potentially bigger trial still to come.
VoxelMatters reports Beamit's Fornovo plant installed the first EOS M4 ONYX in EMEA and renewed NADCAP, months after a Parma court opened liquidation and Rainshow Industries bought the aerospace unit.
An East Texas jury found four Bambu Lab entities willfully infringed four Stratasys FDM patents and awarded about $27.6M in past damages; Bambu will seek post-trial review and appeal, and the second suit has no trial date.
Print a master, finish it, box it and pour silicone over it, then cast resin, soap or plaster copies by the dozen: a six-step guide with the silicone, resin, release agent, tools and safety gear to order for each stage.
Design a buck with draft and vents, print it in ABS or PETG, pick a desktop former and the right sheet, then pull and trim clear or opaque shells: a six-step vacuum forming guide with the filament, machine, sheet stock and tools to order for each stage.
Print a pattern in burn-away filament, invest it in plaster, burn it out and pour aluminum: a seven-step lost-PLA casting guide with the filament, kiln, furnace, investment and safety gear to order for each stage.
Tom's Hardware gave the Prusa CORE One+ INDX a 4.5/5 Editor's Choice, praising a wiper-based toolchanger that purges just ~13mg of filament per color swap — no prime tower required — for $2,249.
Tom's Hardware's hands-on review of the Prusa/Bondtech INDX toolchanger on the CORE One+ Gen 2 finds induction-heated, purge-tower-free 8-color printing at Core-XY speed — for a real-world $2,249.
My Tech Fun's head-to-head found desktop PC-ABS from a Prusa Core One L and Bambu Lab H2D nearly matched a six-figure Stratasys Fortus 450mc on strength and beat it on looks, with dimensional accuracy the industrial machine's only clear win.
Bambu Lab opened pre-orders for the R1, a 55W CO2 laser cutter/engraver starting at $2,499, its first standalone product outside 3D printing and a direct shot at xTool and Glowforge.
SnowX is prepping a Q4 2026 Kickstarter for SnowPod, a desktop L-PBF metal printer with a 40-micron laser and sealed powder handling — and it got a rare exception from a crowdfunding-averse trade site.
Tennessee-based metal-powder maker Amaero set terms for a $52.6 million Nasdaq IPO under ticker AMRO, with most of the proceeds earmarked for new capital equipment as revenue jumped sixfold year over year.
Lithoz and KLS Martin have made LithaBone TCP implants an official IPS Gate product, turning a 12-year ceramic printing collaboration into a routine surgeon-facing order, with the 500th implant due by end of Q3 2026.
AM Research's Q2 2026 data, as reported by 3DPrint.com, puts 3D printing revenue at $4.48B, up 12% year over year, with services over half the market and a warning that interest rates could stall capex again.
VulcanForms and defense contractor Specter Aerospace announced a partnership to build the first dedicated US facility for full-rate additive manufacturing of hypersonic munitions.
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