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Okuma Introduces New Hybrid 3D Printer and CNC Machine
Okuma is known for being a manufacturer of CNC machines, but the company is now branching out into additive manufacturing – or rather hybrid manufacturing. Hybrid manufacturing combines one or…
Diabase Engineering Introduces the H-Series Desktop Hybrid 3D Printer and CNC Machine
Diabase Engineering offered 3D printer owners a brand new option in 2016 when it introduced the Flexion Extruder, an add-on extruder that promised to give any 3D printer industrial 3D…
Ethereal Machines Wins CES Innovation Award for 5-Axis 3D Printer/CNC Machine Hybrid
Already, CES 2018 is only a little over a month away. It’s getting so close, in fact, that the CES Innovation Award recipients are being named. The Innovation Awards honor…
NASA Uses Hybrid Process to 3D Print Rocket Engine Igniter From Two Different Metals
Whenever NASA comes up, it’s a pretty good bet that something exciting is happening. The space agency has been doing some amazing work with 3D printing, including building an entirely…
Roboze White Paper Compares FFF 3D Printing of Engineering-Grade Materials with Metal Production Processes
Italian 3D printing group Roboze recently capped off its move into the US market with a strong showing of both its Roboze One and Roboze One +400 3D printers at…
Additive Engineering Solutions: A Small Company with a Big 3D Printer
Additive Engineering Solutions (AES) may be a small company, but it has one of the biggest 3D printers in the world. When 3DPrint.com Editor-in-Chief Sarah Goerhke and I walked into…
3D Hybrid Solutions and Multiax International to Introduce Massive Metal 3D Printer/CNC Machine Hybrid at RAPID + TCT
3D printers just keep getting bigger and bigger, as well as more multifunctional. It’s been hard to keep track of who’s selling the largest 3D printer in the world, as…
Snapmaker Tells Us What’s Making Their $1.5 Million 3D Printer Kickstarter So Successful
If you’re a regular or even semi-regular reader of 3DPrint.com, you know that we cover crowdfunding campaigns quite frequently – and for good reason, because some of the most successful…
Thermwood Corporation Introduces LSAM: Large Scale Additive Manufacturing with a CNC Twist
Indiana-based Thermwood Corporation is known for their CNC routers – in fact, they’re the oldest CNC machine manufacturing company in business, having developed the first commercial CNC tool control back in…
Affordable, Open Source, 3D Printable CNC Machine is Now on Kickstarter
The appeals of Kickstarter campaigns are many. There are the rewards for backers, frequently taking the form of either deep discounts on the final product or unusual items that can’t…
Soon-to-Be-Released Aether 1 3D Printer Can Do Absolutely Everything
Most 3D printers are made for a particular function. There are printers for metal, printers for plastic, food printers, bioprinters, but for the most part, they’re each limited to one…
It Turns Out That 3D Printing Can Even Be Used to Make the Perfect Spring
I really don’t know if I could find a dryer subject to write about than industrial springs. At least a subject that sounded dryer, because when I actually started to…
Build Your Own Concrete 3D Printer with This Detailed Instructable
Artist, architecture student and robot builder Clayton Muhleman teamed up with his fellow Instructable user Alan Cation to create a cool mobile 3D printer that can 3D print large-scale objects…
Orsus Hybrid Manufacturing System: The Machine Shop of Tomorrow, Available for Pre-Order Today
These days, if you are plugging a new 3D printer, it better be a great looking piece of hardware; after all, who wants to plunk out their dollars for an ugly…
3D Print Your Own Nerdy Binary Watch
When Instructables user Othermachine uploaded their tutorial for building a binary digital watch called the Nerd Watch it became a bit of a sensation among, well, nerds. It mixed in several…
MythBusters Builds Life-Size Homer Simpson Thanks to Materialise’s 3D Software
One of the most iconic moments from 2007’s The Simpsons Movie had the titular family’s home in danger of being destroyed with a wrecking ball until Homer selflessly jumps on…
Hurco Files U.S. Patent Application For Adaptor Which Turns CNC Machines Into 3D Printers
Even though 3D printing is just coming of age, computer controlled manufacturing equipment has been in use for ages. In particular, computer numerical control (CNC) milling machines, are used by…
Virginia Man Creates a 3-In-1 3D Printer, Laser Engraver, & CNC Machine For Under $250
When it comes to 3D printers, they can be used to make all sorts of objects, via additive manufacturing. However, many ‘makers’ (people who utilize their creative abilities to ‘make’…
BuildersBot: Files & Instructions Released for DIY 3D Printer / CNC Combo Machine
The 3D printing community is filled with DIY’ers (Do It Yourself’ers), who are fascinated with building 3D printers basically from scratch. The RepRap movement is one that has really caught…