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Business
Nano Dimension Names an Interim CEO — and Keeps Walking Away From 3D Printing
The consolidator that swallowed Desktop Metal and Markforged has installed an interim CEO and a new chairman to finish dismantling the portfolio — and to steer the company out of additive manufacturing entirely.
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Software
OrcaSlicer Quietly Grew a Python Plugin System — And Says Outright It Isn't a Sandbox
OrcaSlicer's nightlies now carry a capability-based Python plugin architecture with an embedded `orca` module, a CPython audit hook and a new per-plugin storage API in draft PR #14923 — and the official docs call the security layer "groundwork, not a hardened sandbox."
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Printers
Benchtop SLS Grows Up: Sinterit Pairs the €47,000 BIANCO2 With DyeMansion's Vapor Smoothing
Sinterit will resell DyeMansion's VX1 vapour smoothing system alongside its new €47,000 BIANCO2 SLS printer, putting the industrial finishing chain and a 137-parameter open-profile powder bed machine in the same quote for the first time.
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Guides
UL 94 V-0, Explained: A Practical Guide to Flame-Retardant 3D Printing Materials
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.
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Software
Someone Reverse-Engineered Prusa's INDX Into Real CAD — and It Says a Lot About the Open Community License
A GitHub repo has reconstructed parametric CAD for Prusa's INDX toolchanger from Prusa's own printable mesh and published it as CC BY-SA 4.0 — a share-alike claim that runs straight into the Open Community License, which says any distributed derivative stays under OCL.
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Materials
Titanium Powder Orders Jump Sixfold: What Tekna's CAD $3M Defense Deal Says About Metal AM Going Serial
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.
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Business
Eaton Opens a European Additive Center in Wimborne — and Bets on Electron Beam Titanium
Eaton's new European Centre of Additive Manufacturing in Wimborne, England is its third AM site globally, houses its largest metal printer, and is aiming at AS9100-certified titanium production via electron beam — a telling signal about who actually buys industrial metal printers in 2026.
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Printers
HeyGears' G1X Hits Kickstarter: Desktop Full-Color 3D Printing Finally Has a Price Tag
HeyGears' G1 Series went live on Kickstarter July 23 with the flagship G1X Full-3D at $3,599 — an Epson i3200, 8-channel, 45 kg machine that also does texture relief and 2D UV on 400+ substrates — but campaign pricing has already drifted $300 above the deposit quote and the specs disagree with each other.
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Industry
Pratt & Whitney Lines Up Two Additive Partners to 3D Print Full-Scale F135 Engine Structures
At Farnborough 2026, Pratt & Whitney signed two additive deals for the F-35's F135 engine — GKN printing a full-scale engine case with laser wire DED in Norway, and Safran Aero Boosters plus BMT Aerospace tackling supply-constrained titanium parts in Belgium.
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Software
Every 3D Printer Has a 'Personality': New AI Profiles Machine-to-Machine Variation
IMDEA Materials and Berkeley Lab built an algorithm that profiles the operational "personality" of nominally identical 3D printers, then decides whether to optimize them jointly or individually — cutting part-weight errors and speeding convergence across three theoretically identical machines.
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Industry
Ceramic 3D Printing's Quiet Boom: Lithoz Posts 40% Materials Growth as Print Farms, Implants, and Turbine Cores Scale
Lithoz reports a 40% jump in ceramic-materials revenue for H1 2026 and raises its full-year outlook, driven by print farms, resorbable implants, and Safran's adoption of LCM silica cores for single-crystal turbine blades.
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Software
Meshy's $400M Series B Makes It the Best-Funded Company in Generative 3D — Here's What It Means for Makers
Meshy closed a $400M Series B on July 20, 2026 — which it calls the largest round ever in 3D generative AI — behind text- and photo-to-3D tools that export print-ready STL, OBJ, GLB and FBX files straight to your slicer.
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