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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.
Read the story →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.
Snapmaker's OrcaSlicer fork went from 2.4.0 Alpha to Beta in a week: the Beta adds no features but fixes six issues, two of them crashes, while the Alpha carried high-flow hot end parameters, six new U1 filaments and merged presets.
Backflip AI's new Drawing to CAD builds parametric 3D models with editable feature trees from 2D drawings, in Autodesk Fusion and on the web, alongside a multi-photo Photo to CAD tool. The company claims $10 or less and 5-30 minutes versus about $1,500.
AMCM has folded PanOptimization's PanX thermomechanical simulation engine into EOSPRINT itself, letting the software rewrite dwell times, geometry and laser power before a large metal build ever starts.
A software engineer wired a Meta Quest 3 to a Bambu Lab P2S so he can physically throw a 3D model across the room and watch the printer start the job, using Bambu's local API and AI-assisted "vibe coding."
At its Formnext Asia Shenzhen booth, Snapmaker confirmed Snapmaker Space — a curated model platform built around the U1's color-mixing tech — has entered closed beta with 1,000+ ready-to-print designs and a Meshy AI partnership.
A day after reviewers put Meshy 7 through its FDM paces, Meshy 7.1 quietly doubled voxel resolution to 4096³ and rolled out a self-authored benchmark claiming a clean sweep over Rodin 2.5 and Hi3D 3.0.
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