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Industry
Where 3D Printing Actually Works in Audio: Materials Science Over Hype
From SLA resin clarinet mouthpieces to carbon-fiber guitar headstocks, additive manufacturing has carved out real niches in acoustic applications, but the physics of sound reveals exactly where FDM layer lines become liabilities.
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Guides
Snap Fit Design for 3D Printing: Deflection Math, Tolerances, and Material Tradeoffs
Cantilever and annular snap fits are deceptively simple mechanisms that FDM printers struggle to reproduce reliably. Here is the geometry, deflection math, clearance strategy, and material selection logic to get them right on the first print.
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Industry
The $24.8 Billion Reckoning: How 3D Printing Is Finally Ditching the Hype for Hard Outcomes
Industry analysts and AM executives entering 2026 are converging on a single theme: the era of measuring progress by hardware deployments is over, replaced by a harder accounting of utilization rates, yield, and repeatable outcomes at scale.
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Software
Bambu Studio 2.6.1 Solves the Spool Guessing Game with RFID-Backed Filament Tracking
The 2.6.1 beta release brings a Filament Manager that tracks remaining spool weight via extrusion calculations, syncs across devices through Bambu Cloud, and adds substantial hardware support for the H2C and H2D Pro machines.
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Guides
Multi-Material FDM in 2026: Why Architecture Matters More Than You Think
Choosing a multi-material printer is really a choice between three distinct hardware architectures, each with fundamentally different tradeoffs in purge waste, contamination risk, and temperature compatibility -- and the wrong choice for your materials can make certain prints impossible.
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Software
OrcaSlicer vs. Bambu Studio vs. PrusaSlicer: Which Slicer Actually Wins in 2026?
The slicer landscape in 2026 has fragmented along clear lines: ecosystem loyalty, calibration depth, and hardware compatibility each favor a different tool, and the right answer depends almost entirely on what you are printing on.
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Printers
Prusa XL Gets Its Most Ambitious Update Yet: Silicone Printing, Pick-and-Place, and a Lower Price
Prusa Research has significantly upgraded the XL platform with two new experimental toolheads, a price reduction, and the end of the semi-assembled option — signaling that the machine is maturing from a niche workhorse into a genuine production tool.
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Business
Arridex Commissions West Africa's First Multi-Technology Additive Manufacturing Factory in Lagos
RusselSmith rebranded to Arridex and commissioned the Lagos "Omnifactory" -- billed as West Africa's first multi-tech industrial AM plant, running L-PBF, cold spray, SLS, and FFF under one roof to localize spare-parts production.
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Software
Bambu Studio 2.8.0 Beta Pulls CAD-Style Assembly Guides Into the Slicer
Bambu Studio 2.8.0 Public Beta adds an Assembly Guide tool that turns an imported STEP file into exploded-view, step-by-step build instructions inside the slicer, plus counterbore-hole bridging modes and better time-lapse output.
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Materials
Baked, Printed, Ready: Chalmers Turns Baker's Yeast Into 3D-Printable Architecture
Chalmers researchers built a fully bio-based, biodegradable architectural material around deactivated baker's yeast, pressure-printed at room temperature with no support structures, and debuted printed screens and panels in a June 2026 premiere.
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Printers
Elegoo's Open-Frame Centauri 2 Pushes CoreXY Multicolor Under $300
Elegoo's open-frame Centauri 2 lands at $299, with the four-color Combo at $379, pairing 500 mm/s CoreXY motion with the new CANVAS multicolor system and escalating the sub-$400 multicolor price war.
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Industry
RIT's Eight-Nozzle Molten Metal Jetting Printhead Takes Aim at Metal AM's Throughput Wall
RIT's AMPrint Center showed an eight-nozzle molten metal jetting printhead that fires droplets like an inkjet, chasing higher metal AM throughput without losing resolution -- and tying into work on printing recycled scrap metal.
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