3D Design
3D People Case Study Details Development of 3D Printed POV Camera Rig
A POV, or Point of View, camera rig, is a wearable support system that helps filmographers capture first-person footage, making the images more immersive. Some good examples of movies shot…
Fabric8Labs & University of Illinois Collaborate on 3D Printed Copper Cold Plates for Data Centers
Collaboration between emerging technology enterprises and research universities is one of the most consistently winning tactics for any nation building (or rebuilding) an industrial ecosystem. It’s an especially constructive approach…
Microprinting Microcap XTPL Reports 2025 Sales Growth Despite Net Loss
The Polish company XTPL is among a category of small startups sitting at the overlap between additive manufacturing (AM) and advanced packaging for the semiconductor industry. 3DPrint.com’s Vanesa Listek wrote…
3DPrint.com & AM Research Present: UAS Additive Strategies, Sponsored by EOS
When your work involves a technological field, like additive manufacturing (AM), which still flies under the radar for most people, it can often feel like what you do every day…
Novineer Partners with Contract Manufacturer AM Craft on AI-Backed Reverse Engineering for CAD Models
The need for replacement parts that are in limited production—or out of production altogether—will always be a demand catalyst for additive manufacturing (AM). Unless the entire global economy at some…
ARC & ORNL Form Partnership to Accelerate AI-Enabled Manufacturing for Defense
Last year, Autonomous Resource Corporation (ARC) became the surprising owner of Desktop Metal’s (DM’s) assets following the bankruptcy of the one-time additive manufacturing (AM) unicorn, an acquisition that cost ARC…
trinckle’s Tool Design Software Lands in Stratasys GrabCAD Print
I’m a fan of trinckle, the German startup that offers super easy-to-use tools for creating customized jigs, fixtures, and other 3D printed products. With trinckle, it’s not just designers who…
How Decibel Landed the Brands Everyone Wants
The first thing Adam Hecht will tell you is that 3D printing already has the technology. The harder part has been finding applications people actually want. That’s the gap Decibel…
Harvard Engineering Students 3D Print VTOL Drone to Improve Marine Biology Research
With all the current focus on the boom in drones used for national security, it’s easy to forget that the civilian drone market is growing, too. In addition to the…
CNC Kitchen Vibe-Coded a Texture Tool, then Gave It Away for Free
Stefan Hermann, the creator behind the popular CNC Kitchen YouTube channel, wanted a better way to add custom textures to his 3D models. Although fluent in CAD, he found Blender,…
3D Printing News Briefs, April 2, 2026: Reseller, Submarine Parts, & More
We’re starting off today’s 3D Printing News Briefs with business from Materialise and RapidFit, and Axtra3D and MULTISTATION. Then we’ll move on to a contract for submarine components, and end…
MuskCo Semiconductor: The Terafab and 3D Printing
Elon Musk essentially functions as a human loophole in the antitrust regulatory system. Whether or not it’s the deliberate purpose of why he runs his businesses this way, I don’t…
At TCT Asia 2026, China’s AM Industry Looked Ready for Scale: Part 2
At TCT Asia 2026, the shift did not stop at metal production. It extended into the consumer and prosumer side of the market, where the same logic of scale, integration,…
At TCT Asia 2026, China’s AM Industry Looked Ready for Scale: Part 1
Walk into TCT Asia 2026, and the first impression is density. More than 55,000 square meters across Halls 7.1 and 8.1 at Shanghai’s National Exhibition and Convention Center, over 550…
Sintavia Taps NVIDIA Blackwell for AI-Driven Additive Manufacturing Pipeline
Investors have become increasingly anxious about the sustainability of NVIDIA‘s growth trajectory, which is a rather natural outcome when a stock goes up infinity percent or so over the course…
XTPL Sells First ODRA System to Silicon Valley Semiconductor Packaging Client
One prerequisite for success in additive manufacturing (AM) is the establishment of a proven system for converting initial sales used as tech validation into future sales of higher-value hardware that’s…
With ARPA-E Backing, HRL Laboratories Advances 3D Printed Cooling for More Efficient Data Centers
In the report “AM for Data Centers: a 3D Printing Market Opportunity” that I wrote last year for Additive Manufacturing Research (AMR), I referenced Theodore Maiman, the man credited with…
XTPL’s 3D Printed Advanced Packaging Solution Lands the Company a Strategic Partnership with Leading Semicap OEM
Chip packaging refers to all parts of a semiconductor device aside from the die (the “chip”) itself. As this IBM explainer nicely puts it, “In a nutshell, chip packaging provides…
The Real World Impact of Simulated Parts: Why Novineer and Stratasys Partnered on Performance Simulation for FDM
If one of the primary advantages of additive manufacturing (AM) is that it’s “digitally-native,” then the hardware will ultimately only be as good as the software guiding the process. That…
APES Partners with Great Lakes Semiconductor to Scale Advanced, Additive Chip Packaging
Terminologically, additively manufactured electronics (AME) occupies similar space in the realm of tiny components that additive construction (AC) occupies when it comes to large components: it’s a single phrase that…
Harvard SEAS Engineers Develop 3D Printing Method for Soft Robotic Components with Programmable Shapes
The world of soft robotics is still largely in its pure research phase, but the R&D landscape has started to produce examples of early-stage commercialization. Researchers have started to refine…
Fully Automated, “Continuously Re-Nested” Industrial 3D Printing: AMIS Launches AMIS Runtime
Automation is already a pillar of global manufacturing strategy, even as its practical limitations for continued expansion signal that manufacturers will require quite some time to figure out how to…
Lululemon SoHo Store Installs Large-Format 3D Printed Benches
Shoppers visiting the new Lululemon flagship store in SoHo might notice something new and original when they sit down. Several of the seating elements inside the space were not carved…
3D Printing News Briefs, February 7, 2026: Generative AI, USVs, Microgravity, & More
Today’s 3D Printing News Briefs is a bit of a mixed bag. We’re starting with generative AI tools for 3D design from MIT, and then news about USVs. Moving on,…
