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Slicers, firmware, and the open-source toolchain — release notes translated into settings you can actually use.
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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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CNC Kitchen's PrusaPATuner Turns Your Bed-Leveling Load Cell Into a Pressure Advance Calibrator
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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Bambu Studio 2.8.1 Public Beta Adds Automatic Color Decomposition and E3D High-Flow Nozzle Support
Bambu Studio's new public beta can auto-break any target color into an optimal filament mix, sharpens CMYW/RYBW color prediction, and adds official support for E3D's High Flow nozzles.
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Hackers Cross-Compile Busybox with Zig to Patch a Klipper-Modded Flashforge AD5X
A community project cross-compiles busybox with the Zig toolchain to add missing Linux tools like less and more to a Z-Mod-modified Flashforge AD5X, working around a Zig floating-point bug with manual ELF patching.
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Prusa Ships Firmware 6.6.2 for CORE One INDX, Fixing Nozzle-Cleaner and Tool-Lock Precision
Prusa's 6.6.2 firmware for CORE One/CORE One+ INDX fixes nozzle-cleaner offset drift and tool-pickup ejection, auto-migrates EEPROM offsets, and adds safety options for lost-tool recovery and Dock Calibration.
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MarineLab3D Ditches Fixed STL Files, Sells Parametric 3D-Printable Boat Parts Generated On Demand
Italian marketplace MarineLab3D swaps static STL boat-part libraries for JSCAD-based parametric models that users dial to their own dimensions, with a watertight check before download and revenue share for outside designers.
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CRP Group Launches UniqTrust to Give 3D-Printed Parts a Digital Identity
CRP Group's new CRP UniqTrust system links physical Windform parts to a protected digital record via non-clonable NFC packaging, letting buyers verify authenticity ahead of the EU's Digital Product Passport mandate.
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Manual Supports in Bambu Studio: The Complete How-To
Bambu Studio's auto supports are good — but painting enforcers and blockers, manual-only support modes, and per-object overrides are better. A complete walkthrough of the painting tools, blocker objects, tree vs normal styles, and the Z-distance and interface settings that decide whether supports pop off cleanly.
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Klipper vs Marlin: 3D Printer Firmware Explained
Marlin runs entirely on your printer's own board; Klipper splits the job with a host computer. Both now do input shaping and pressure control. Here is how the two actually compare — and who ships which one stock.
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AMIS Pro + Runtime 3.5.1 Bolts a Production-Ready Direct Line Into HP's Multi Jet Fusion Printers
Belgian build-prep maker AMIS shipped version 3.5.1 with a direct HP Multi Jet Fusion connection and a rebuilt healing pipeline that flags geometry problems before a job ever reaches the printer.
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Tomo Software Aims to Make Volumetric 3D Printing as Easy as Slicing an STL
OpenCAL's new Tomo app, paired with V2 hardware and a Formlabs resin partnership, wants to strip the command-line barrier off volumetric printing, which cures whole objects in a spinning resin vial in minutes.
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OrcaSlicer 2.4.2 Lands With Preset-Recovery Fixes and More Reliable Cloud Sync
OrcaSlicer 2.4.2, released July 7, 2026, repairs presets broken by renamed printer/filament profiles, stops cloud sync from silently re-enabling disabled filament overrides, and squashes several crash bugs.
