Slicers, firmware, and the open-source toolchain — release notes translated into settings you can actually use.
Elegoo's August 6 ElegooSlicer update merges most of OrcaSlicer 2.4.2's feature set while fixing Centauri Carbon 2 multicolor time estimates, a Neptune 3 Pro thumbnail bug, and Centauri Carbon bed temps.
Read the story →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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
Stefan of CNC Kitchen has released PrusaPATuner, an experimental AGPL-3.0 tool that auto-calibrates pressure advance on Prusa printers by repurposing the nozzle load cell as a back-pressure sensor — no extra hardware, no test prints, no squinting at a calibration tower.
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