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Printers
Prusa's INDX Multi-Material System Starts Shipping: 30x Less Waste Than Rivals
Bondtech has begun shipping Prusa's INDX Founder's Edition toolchanger upgrade, which Prusa says cuts multi-color purge waste roughly 30x versus rival systems while supporting eight tools and a CMYKW+RGB workflow.
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Printers
SUNLU's New AMS Lite Heater Lets Bambu Lab Printers Dry and Print at the Same Time
SUNLU's $129.99 AMS Lite Heater adds active 70°C drying to Bambu Lab's AMS Lite, letting filament dry and print simultaneously — a fix timed to the company's 13th anniversary and U.S. factory expansion.
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Software
OrcaSlicer 2.4.1 Lands With Native Windows ARM64 Build and a Skirt-Generation Fix
OrcaSlicer 2.4.1 ships a native Windows ARM64 build for Snapdragon X Elite laptops, fixes a 2.4.0 bug that reprinted skirts during sequential printing, and adds Snapmaker U1 and Elegoo Centauri 2 profiles.
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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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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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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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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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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
3D Printing on the Water: Marine Applications, Material Selection, and the Limits of What FDM Can Build
From replacement cleats to instrument housings and full hull experiments, 3D printing is finding a permanent role in marine environments. ASA and CF-PETG are doing real work; full hull printing is closer than it sounds but further than the headlines suggest.
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Printers
Creality K1C Review: Carbon Fiber Capability at the Entry Point of Speed Printing
The K1C is Creality's answer to the question of whether a 600 mm/s CoreXY machine can handle abrasive composite filaments without constant nozzle replacement. The answer is mostly yes, with caveats that matter for serious users.
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Guides
Manual Color Swaps Without an AMS: G-Code Pause Commands in PrusaSlicer, OrcaSlicer, and Bambu Studio
Multi-color printing without a filament changer is entirely achievable using M600 and pause-at-layer commands. The slicer implementations differ in important ways, and getting the G-code sequencing wrong produces failed swaps, ooze blobs, or color bleed that contaminates the swap layer.
