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Crawl/Walk. Then, Run: 3D Systems’ Aerospace & Defense VP Mike Shepard on How to Scale Military 3D Printing

Defense spending around the world has been skyrocketing in the last few years, with the 9.4 percent growth in 2024 constituting “the steepest year-on-year [YOY] rise since at least the…

Formnext Asia Shenzhen 2025: When Boring Beats Brilliant

“While Western companies fight for novelty, China fights for acceptance.” This observation, scribbled in my iPhone note app during Formnext Asia Shenzhen, held from August 26 to 28, captures what…


3D Printing News Briefs, September 3, 2025: AMUG Registration, 3D Models, & More

First up in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs: registration is officially open for the 2026 AMUG Conference, which will be held in a new location this year. Then, it’s on…

HP Dives Deeper Into Orthopedic 3D Printing at AOPA 2025 With New PA 11

HP is announcing that it will have a new generation of PA 11. With the 3D HR PA 11 Gen2 material, the company will offer up to 80% material reusability,…

Artec 3D’s AS20 Software Update Supercharges Its Entire Scanner Lineup

Artec 3D, a Luxembourg-based leader in 3D scanning, has just unveiled Artec Studio 20 (AS20), and it’s more than just another software update. According to the company, this version is…

AMS Focus: The Business Story Behind AM’s Next Chapter

2025 has been a reset year for 3D printing, with deals closed, assets changing owners, and new initial public offerings (IPOs) signaling where growth may come from next. If the…

Understanding The Risks of Vibe Coding

Vibe coding is an emergent practice where people use AI tools and Large Language Model (LLM) Chatbots to write code. An experienced developer could accelerate their work considerably through vibe…

From Energy to Defense: Strengthening Supply Chains Through Dual-Use Additive Manufacturing

Dual-use technologies serve more than one sector, often bridging the gap between commercial and defense applications. Additive manufacturing (AM), once seen primarily as a prototyping tool, is now maturing into…

AI, Robotics, and 3D Printing for Mass Customization: Dandy’s Dental Revolution

Dandy wants to do for dental labs what modern factories did for smartphones: make high-quality products, fast, at scale, without losing the custom fit patients need. In an interview with…

3DPOD 269: AM in Japan, Software for AM, and more with Peter Rogers, Layered Ltd.

Peter Rogers is Australian but has worked in Japan since 2009. He has held roles at a Japanese 3D Printing firm, at Velo3D, and at Autodesk. Today, he consults for…

Modular Student-Built Open Source Clura Enclosure for Safer Desktop 3D Printing

For the past year, maker Fabrizio Blasio has been working with a couple of his fellow aerospace engineering bachelor’s students at TU Delft in the Netherlands to develop an affordable,…

3D Printing News Briefs, August 30, 2025: Hybrid Construction, FEA Simulation, & More

We’re covering a variety of applications in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, starting with construction. Then it’s on to automotive 3D printing and 3D printed drones. We’ll end with…

SAE International Celebrates its 10th Anniversary of AM Aerospace Standards

Ten years into SAE’s AMS AM standards work, Bill Bihlman examines progress, pain points, and the path to wider aerospace adoption. This summer, SAE celebrated its 10th anniversary of its…

Velo3D Announces Collaborations with U.S. Army & U.S. Navy for Defense & Maritime Applications

Metal 3D printing company Velo3D (Nasdaq: VELO), which just this week uplisted to the Nasdaq Capital Market a year after leaving the NYSE for over-the-counter (OTC) markets, is participating in…

ORNL Continues Developing DuAlumin-3D

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has reported progress with DuAlumin-3D. The team has said that, “DuAlumin-3D outperforms traditional alloys, which are prone to cracking during laser powder bed fusion processing,…

Ukraine’s New 3D Printed Bomb Points to a Fabless Future for Weapons

On Ukrainian Independence Day (August 24), the Defence Cooperation Forum. Future Warfare was held in Kyiv, which was attended by defense ministers and other leaders from across the Western world….

Air Force Awards 3D Systems $7.65M Contract to Continue Work on Large Format Metal 3D Printer

Back in September 2023, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded 3D Systems a contract worth nearly $11 million to develop a large-format metal additive manufacturing (AM) demonstrator, a…

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The Creality IPO Effects & Scenarios

Creality is slated to go public on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The value-engineered desktop Material Extrusion maker has branched out. It now makes sophisticated K1 and K2 desktop systems,…

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Clear Aligners in Focus: What’s Changing in 2025

Align Technology’s latest earnings showed slower growth for Invisalign, but the story is bigger than one company. The market for clear aligners is changing, and those changes matter for the…

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AM Can Evolve to Drive Entire Markets, and the Dental Industry is Proof

In an era of challenges to the additive manufacturing (AM) industry, mostly driven by the technology’s relatively high cost at a time when financing production equipment is more expensive, many…


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