Editorials / Opinions
by Joris Peels | Sep 20, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Business, Editorials / Opinions, Popular Stories
Selective Laser Sintering is also called powder bed fusion and SLS. The SLS process sees a bed of polymer powder selectively sintered by a laser. A new layer is applied and this is then also hardened with unsintered powder acting as a support. Dominated by EOS Gmbh,...
by Joris Peels | Sep 18, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, Business, Editorials / Opinions, Metal 3D Printing, Popular Stories
Metal 3D printing is a burgeoning area at the moment. Many companies are investing in metal 3D printing systems and the market is growing quickly. There are a number of different metal 3D printing technologies out there. You can find the previous parts of this series...
by Joris Peels | Sep 13, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printing, Editorials / Opinions, Popular Stories
The definitive, totally unsurpassable Top 10 3D Printed Things, as selected with exceeding unparalleled rigor by me. You could disagree with this list, but then you would be wrong. These things have all inspired us, are emblematic of major steps forward in 3D...
by Joris Peels | Sep 12, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printers, 3D Printing, Editorials / Opinions, Popular Stories, Science & Technology
Full color 3D printing is the holy grail of 3D printing. To be able to 3D print an object in any color whatsoever with clear definition and no bleed would really make prototyping with 3D printing more valuable. If prototypes coming off the printer would look almost...
by Sarah Anderson Goehrke | Sep 7, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Editorials / Opinions, Exclusive Interviews, Metal 3D Printing
Boston, Massachusetts is coming into its own as a hub of advanced technologies, championed by an expanding array of strong businesses and fed into through a wealth of prestigious local institutions of higher education. 3D printing is, unsurprisingly, thriving in such...
by Joris Peels | Sep 7, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Editorials / Opinions
3D printed food has caught chefs’, journalists’ and the general public’s attention for a number of years now. There is however a lot of disinformation around the subject as well as confusion. To help clear that up a bit we’re going to be looking at...
by Joris Peels | Sep 5, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, Business, Editorials / Opinions, Popular Stories
Whereas most of the media focus around 3D printing was initially directed at desktop 3D printing, a lot of the opportunity is actually in industry. Industrial 3D printing can unlock value for manufacturers by making their supply chains more flexible. Part count...
by Joris Peels | Sep 3, 2017 | 3D Printing, Business, Editorials / Opinions
See Part One of this thought piece here. Lack of Community Meanwhile civic participation is diminishing. Memberships in civic organizations and the role these play in our lives is lessening. For many institutions such as the communist party, the labor union or local...
by Joris Peels | Sep 2, 2017 | 3D Printing, Business, Editorials / Opinions
We are currently living in an age of considerable political upheaval. The established order is creaking and our world seems blanketed in uncertainty. Chaos, irrationality, hate, disasters and a lack of civility abound. Sometimes it can feel like the end times, the...
by Scott J Grunewald | Sep 1, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printing, Business, Editorials / Opinions, Popular Stories
Beleaguered 3D printing startup Just3DPrint (Just Print It Inc.) lost its long shot defamation lawsuit against 3DPrint.com parent company 3DR Holdings this month, the last of three legal battles that they filed in a Philadelphia court in February of this year. The...
by Yurii Yefimov | Aug 29, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Editorials / Opinions
Plastic is the most popular material used for 3D printing and the cheapest one. We decided to make this ordinary topic a bit funnier than it really is and compared qualities of different plastic types with qualities superheroes have. ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene...
by Siddarth Wadehra | Aug 10, 2017 | 3D Printing, Business, Editorials / Opinions
On a damp Wednesday afternoon in Yorkshire, a factory floor is busy churning out bespoke metal parts for industries including aerospace, motor sport and automobile at a pace which would have been unimaginable without 3D printing. Here traditional manufacturing methods...
by Sarah Anderson Goehrke | Aug 1, 2017 | 3D Printing, Business, Editorials / Opinions, Popular Stories
A fast-growing industry is appealing, from a business sense, of course; investors, inventors, and customers alike all flock to get in on the Next Big Thing. With several 3D printing startups now valued at more than a billion dollars — unicorns! — as well...
by Joris Peels | Jul 28, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, Business, Editorials / Opinions, Metal 3D Printing, Popular Stories
Metal 3D printing is a burgeoning area at the moment. Many companies are investing in metal 3D printing systems and the market is growing quickly. There are a number of different metal 3D printing technologies out there. You can find the first part of this series...
by Hilary Johnson | Jul 25, 2017 | 3D Printing, Business, Editorials / Opinions, Education, Exclusive Interviews, Metal 3D Printing
Growing up in a household with a father in engineering and mother in mathematics, I was destined to be in the science and engineering world. However, I didn’t see it that way until I grew up a little. Education, dedication to sports, and hard work were always the...
by John Hauer | Jul 20, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printers, 3D Printing, Business, Editorials / Opinions, Popular Stories
I think there is tremendous opportunity for color in 3D printing. Here’s why. “For digital (2D) printing, the big tipping point was affordable color. I think the same will be true for 3D. Whether that’s best accomplished through production or finishing is a...
by John Hornick | Jul 19, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, Business, Editorials / Opinions, Popular Stories
I devoted a section of the first chapter of my book, 3D Printing Will Rock the World, to what I call “The Name Game.” My premise: “3D printing” is the best name for layered manufacturing. As I explained, the other contender, “additive...
by Sarah Anderson Goehrke | Jul 18, 2017 | 3D Printing, Business, Editorials / Opinions, Education
Driving a successful industry is a successful workforce; that workforce, though, has to come from somewhere. In terms of additive manufacturing, lately we’ve been seeing an increasing call toward the importance of education, skills, and training as the industry...
by John Hornick | Jul 17, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, Business, Editorials / Opinions, Metal 3D Printing, Science & Technology
The field of 3D printing has been growing rapidly for years. It has applications in many areas of life and the economy, such as healthcare, aerospace, and parts replacement. 3D printing also reshapes supply chains and democratizes manufacturing. Fueled by this...
by Joris Peels | Jul 12, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Business, Editorials / Opinions, Metal 3D Printing
Metal 3D printing is a burgeoning area at the moment. Many companies are investing in metal 3D printing systems and the market is growing quickly. There are a number of different metal 3D printing technologies out there. In this article we’ll give you an overview of...
by Joris Peels | Jun 26, 2017 | 3D Printer Reviews, 3D Printers, 3D Printing, Business, Editorials / Opinions, Popular Stories, Science & Technology
There are a lot of 3D printers available nowadays. Which one do you buy? It really depends a lot on who you are and what you wish to use it for. Generally the more you pay for a 3D printer the more capable it becomes and the more reliable it is. There are quite a few...
by Clare Scott | Jun 23, 2017 | 3D Printing, Business, Editorials / Opinions, Science & Technology
Over the past few months, our Spotlight on Women series has highlighted the contributions of many brilliant women in the field of 3D printing. Even as we’ve begun a new spotlight series focused on educators, we’re still receiving responses from women eager...
by John Hauer | Jun 21, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printing, Business, Editorials / Opinions, Popular Stories
“Complexity is free” and “the cost is flat” are two of the biggest lies in 3D printing. Neither is true, and I’m going to prove it. Right now. MARKETING AND SALES Say you open a 3D printing service bureau. You want to fill it with work, so you...
by John Hauer | May 25, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, Editorials / Opinions, Exclusive Interviews, Science & Technology
Over the years I’ve written a lot about the safety of desktop 3D printing. When Underwriters Laboratory announced plans to enter the market, I covered it. When Dremel launched the IdeaBuilder I wrote that in my experience, it was among the first to be UL and CE...
by Joris Peels | May 19, 2017 | 3D Printing, Editorials / Opinions
Many people somehow see 3D printing as some benign force. The technophile’s latest solution to the world’s ills is a small box that spits out plastic. It too, as the flying cars and jetpacks, will come to save us from ourselves. What many people do not...
by Joris Peels | May 18, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Business, Editorials / Opinions
Adidas has announced that it plans to 3D print 100,000 shoe soles of its Futurecraft 4 shoe by 2018. The German shoe and apparel company is doubling down on its Future Factories initiative where it is reshoring the production of shoes to Germany in highly automated...
