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Makr3D Opens Beta for a White-Label 3D-Print Fulfillment Platform Aimed at Etsy and Shopify Sellers
UK-based Yorkshire3D has opened beta access to Makr3D, a cloud fulfillment service that prints, checks, packs, and ships 3D-printed goods under a seller's own brand from a 100+ Bambu Lab printer farm.
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Tripo AI Raises $150 Million Series A3 as the Text-to-3D Generation Race Heats Up
Tripo AI closed a $150M Series A3 round backed by Geely, gaming giants and tech investors — its second nine-figure raise in six months — as text-to-3D generation edges closer to the maker's print bed.
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Snapmaker Pushes Two U1 Firmware Updates in Three Days, Adding Top Cover Support and AI Detection Uploads
Snapmaker shipped U1 toolchanger firmware V1.5.0 with Top Cover support and opt-in AI spaghetti-detection uploads on July 1, then followed with a bugfix release, V1.5.1, on July 3.
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Creality Bets on Tencent's Hunyuan AI to Turn Photos Into Printable Models
Creality's MakeNow platform now runs on Tencent's Hunyuan 3D V2.5 model, letting users turn a photo or sketch into a printable file in minutes as the company courts a 2026 Hong Kong IPO.
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Prusa Ships Firmware 6.6.1 for CORE One INDX, Fixing Spontaneous Tool-Head Resets
Prusa's stable 6.6.1 firmware for CORE One/+ INDX toolchangers fixes random tool-head resets and tool-assignment mix-ups after crashes, and adds a bed-lowering safety net for lost tools.
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Snapmaker's U1 Firmware Adds Top Cover Support and Smarter Auto-Refill
Snapmaker's V1.5.0/V1.5.1 firmware brings official Top Cover support, mixed-color auto-refill, AI spaghetti-detection uploads, and a first-layer bug fix to the U1 Toolchanger.
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Makr3D Opens Beta of an AI-Assisted Print Fulfillment Platform for Sellers Who Don't Own Printers
Yorkshire3D's new Makr3D beta lets creators and Etsy/Shopify sellers offload printing, QC, packing and shipping to a 100-printer Huddersfield farm, with an AI 'Print Intelligence' inspector that measures models and recommends settings before production.
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Google Hands Out the Blueprints: 3D-Printing Your Own Fitbit Air Accessories
Google released official technical specs and 2D CAD drawings for the $100 Fitbit Air pebble and sleeve, handing makers the exact mating dimensions, tolerances, and attach/detach forces to print bands and adapters that actually fit, plus skin-safe material rules and Made for Google certification for accessories.
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Zurich Startup Nureo Pitches AI Design Automation to Cut CAD Time From Weeks to Minutes
ETH Zurich spinout nureo says its manufacturability-aware AI design platform can compress CAD workflows for fluid manifolds and other parts from weeks to minutes, with Formnext recognition already in hand.
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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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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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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.
