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QIDI's new enclosed CoreXY Plus5 bumps build volume to 320x320x300mm, adds 65C active chamber heating and a 370C hotend, and still starts at $749 — the same floor as its Plus4 predecessor.
Italian manufacturer Kentstrapper's new Mille packs a full one-cubic-meter build volume, a 60°C chamber, and a 30-second hot-end swap into a €40,000 machine aimed at automotive, marine, aerospace, and defense shops that need single-piece parts too big to print in sections.
HP's additive manufacturing leaders mark a decade of Multi Jet Fusion with 25%-a-year growth and the sub-$60,000, 12-liter MJF 1200, aimed at bringing production-grade powder-bed fusion into smaller shops.
UK printhead maker Xaar's Nitrox heads are going into a new Chinese wax-jetting 3D printer built by ZCZH, aiming to turn investment-casting pattern production from a days-long process into an hours-long one.
DAIHEN, the 1919-founded Japanese welding-equipment giant, has launched its first additive manufacturing machine — a $450K-$500K wire-arc metal printer that claims to cut spatter over 98% using a proprietary synchronized wire-feed process.
ELEGOO's first filament dryer, the $70 H1 HT, heats to 85°C with automatic spool rotation, dual active-dehumidification vents, and a separate bypass outlet for TPU and fiber-filled filaments.
Polish and Italian researchers embedded a light-sensitive dye in vat-photopolymerized resin to build 3D printed optical components that dynamically bend, dim, and polarize laser light through 60,000 switching cycles.
Axtra3D has validated Keystone's KeySplint Hard Clear trauma-splint resin on its Lumia.X1 hybrid SLA printer, the second Keyprint dental material cleared for the machine after KeyModel Ultra.
Polymaker's new HT-PLA Pro nearly doubles notched Charpy impact strength over standard HT-PLA and boosts Z-axis layer adhesion, while still hitting 107.6°C heat deflection after annealing — at the same $25.99/kg price.
Lyten's 3D Graphene-reinforced PA1205 nylon is now the primary material for Modovolo's containerized BFP printing platform, with the companies claiming big strength gains over carbon-fiber filament ahead of joint military demos.
Prusa's new castor-oil-based PA11 nylon lands between PA6 and PA12 with lower moisture uptake, strong impact resistance and broad chemical resistance — but it needs an enclosed, chamber-heated printer to run.
One anonymous U.S. defense contract manufacturer just ordered more than CAD $3 million of Ti-6Al-4V powder from Tekna for 2026 — six times its 2025 total — and consumable volume like that is the clearest public signal yet that metal additive manufacturing has moved from prototyping into serial production.
Plastometrex's new PLX-AutoStage module automates non-destructive PIP testing to within 2.6% of tensile-test accuracy, letting aerospace and defense customers qualify AM parts by the hundred without babysitting a test rig.
Backflip AI, founded by former Markforged leaders Greg Mark and David Benhaim, has launched CAD Copilot, an AI tool that turns 3D scans into fully editable, parametric CAD models — and claims it cuts part-digitizing costs from $1,500 to about $10.
A maker hunting for a cheap webcam turned to Thingino, open-source Linux firmware for budget Ingenic-chipset IP cameras, and scripted his own bridge into Prusa's remote monitoring API before official camera support ships.
DAP-CG, a free C# geometry library from RWTH Aachen's DAP Institute, cut nesting memory use fivefold in production AM software and is now open to any CAM developer under the Boost license.
Belgian service bureau 3iD Printing has installed AM-Flow's label-free machine-vision sorting line to eliminate the manual post-processing bottleneck as order volumes scale.
Hexagon linked its ATLASCAN Pro handheld scanner with Geomagic Design X, claiming CAD rebuilds of obsolete aircraft parts up to 8x faster — aimed squarely at aerospace MRO teams recreating cabin and structural components for 3D printing.
3D Systems said its President/CEO Dr. Jeffrey Graves will retire once a successor is found, a transition announced alongside mixed Q2 2026 earnings after six years of restructuring and acquisitions.
NAMI, 3D Systems' Saudi joint venture, has been licensed by GAMI for regulated military manufacturing, putting it in position to capture a slice of the Kingdom's push to localize over half its defense spending by 2030.
UNO landed an $8 million NSF E-RISE grant to build the Nebraska Center for 3D Innovation, expanding a decade of prosthetics research into a full hub for 3D-printed medical devices, antimicrobial materials, and AI-driven anatomical modeling.
Sinterit's €47,000 BIANCO2 SLS printer and DyeMansion's VX1/DM60 finishing gear are now an official pairing, putting industrial-grade surface finishing within reach of compact sintering setups.
Conflux Technology CEO Dan Woodford says scaling metal-AM heat exchangers for Airbus, Honeywell and General Atomics means building a full production system, not just adding printers.
3DEO, the binder-jetting-plus-CNC-milling metal 3D printing pioneer, has filed for insolvency in California and is auctioning its 19-patent IP portfolio and machinery fleet, with bids due August 12, 2026.
A new guide untangles which filaments, resins and powders can legitimately claim food contact status under FDA and EU rules — and why the part, not the material, is what actually gets certified.
Annealing reheats a finished print near its glass transition to recrystallize the polymer, trading a little dimensional accuracy for real gains in strength and heat resistance — as Polymaker's HT-PLA Pro shows with a 30-minute, 100C cycle.
A V-0 rating is always tied to a wall thickness — here's what UL 94, FAR 25.853 and ASTM E662 actually certify, which flame-retardant filaments, resins and powders you can buy, and why printing certified material does not give you a certified part.
Rail manufacturers are trading calipers and go/no-go gauges for metrology-grade 3D scanning that maps full parts against CAD to 0.004mm — the same deviation-mapping workflow makers use for reverse engineering and print verification.
Hackaday's July 19 roundup of seven magnet-installation methods lands on an uncomfortable truth: the friction-fit pocket most makers default to loosens over time thanks to thermal creep in the plastic. Here are the alternatives, plus the slot math and pause workflow that make them work.
All3DP's refreshed July 16, 2026 guide maps the routes back to printing after hardware fails — manufacturer support, warranties, returns, paid repair and authorized resellers — and pairs naturally with iFixit's teardowns for the DIY option.
Chromatic 3D Materials has leased space at Camp Ripley to build an on-site propellant print lab paired directly with live-fire test infrastructure, collapsing the gap between additive propellant fabrication and validation.
ICON delivered the first of ten robotically printed Army barracks at Fort Bliss on July 29, the largest robotic-construction deployment in DoD history, printed in 58 days at roughly 9% below conventional cost.
America Makes has awarded $10.5 million to 25 teams to build a standardized qualification pathway for defense metal 3D printing suppliers, expanding its JAQS-SQ network to 31 companies.
During CJLOTS 26 in Pohang, South Korea, Marine maintainers reverse-engineered and printed a $12 strainer for a $600,000 Coast Guard boat in under half a day, replacing what is normally a 2-3 week parts wait.
Airbus has qualified Roboze's ARGO 500 HYPERSPEED platform, printing unmodified ULTEM 9085 filament, to produce flight-ready secondary structural aircraft parts.
New Mexico State's NSF-funded DREAM Research Center just ran its third annual AMPD workshop, teaching K-12 educators to model, slice and operate 3D printers — and finding that the software, not the hardware, is the real wall.
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