Netfabb
The Future of Making Things: Co-Authoring Products with Customers
The future shared with us at Autodesk University 2016 was one of integration and collaboration — not just between members of your team, but between engineers and their tools and…
Autodesk Introduces Even More Updates to Netfabb 2017
In September, Autodesk released the annual update to their additive manufacturing and design software, Netfabb. While Netfabb 2017 came packed with new features and improvements, Autodesk was by no means finished…
Autodesk Releases Netfabb 2017, Enhancing Design, Simulation & Toolpath Capabilities
Many today tout themselves as ‘leaders’ in numerous areas regarding 3D printing technology from software to hardware to materials, but for a company such as Autodesk, that’s already an undeniable…
New Autodesk Business Solutions Portfolio for Additive & Subtractive Manufacturing Unveiled at IMTS
3DPrint.com was on the scene this week as the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) delivered with over 2,400 exhibitors, all gathered in Chicago September 12-17. To say that you would…
3D Printed Scaffold for Artistic Cell Culture
At the juncture between creative exploration and scientific technology lies the work of Amy Karle, who is the current Artist in Residence at Autodesk. The idea behind her work was…
AstroPrint Offers the ‘Ultimate’ Cheat-Sheet Buffet of 3D Printing Tips You’ll Want to Save
We’re hard pressed today to find someone, anyone, who doesn’t know at least a little bit about how 3D printing is changing the world in so many areas like manufacturing,…
Finalists Announced for Additive Industries’ Metal 3D Printing Design Contest
Additive Industries, the Dutch company that has recently launched one of the most advanced and automated SLM-based, production-grade 3D printers on the market, organized a global contest asking both students…
Maker’s Muse Shows You How to 3D Print Objects Directly from Fallout 4
Released just about a month ago now, Fallout 4 is the fifth installment of Bethesda Softworks hit series of post apocalyptic, open world adventure video games. The game takes place…
This Instructable Converts MRI Scans to 3D Printable CAD Models to Improve Cancer Treatment
We hear a lot here in 3D printing news about the great strides the technology has made in the medical field. I have personally written more than a handful of…
Autodesk to Acquire netfabb, Invest in FIT Technology Group
It’s been a pretty big week over at Autodesk, which just a couple days ago released the hardware and firmware files online to fulfill more of their open source promises…
Microsoft & netfabb Partner Further for Commercial Platform Offering 3D Printing Cloud Services
As 3D printing has made more than a splash in the tech market, many have been curious to see how the big guns of the industry would approach the new…
Italy’s Robot Factory Team Uses CopperFace Kit to Galvanize 3D Prints With Great Results
The Italian companies are always some of the most interesting when it comes to 3D printing. Hailing from a country steeped in a history of fine art, fine wines, and…
Automatic Support Generation by netfabb Improves Industrial AM Metal Parts
German 3D printing software supplier netfabb has just announced the release of a new add-on for the netfabb Professional 6 suite they say will simplify and improve 3D printing processes on an…
FIT AG Set to Invest €20 Million in German AM Facility
FIT Production GmbH, an autonomous division of FIT Additive Manufacturing Group, focuses on creating high-performance, contract manufacturing components via additive manufacturing. With nearly 20 years of expertise in the field, the…
3D Printing Software Update: netfabb Professional 6 Released
3D design software maker netfabb GmbH says they’re ready to present the new latest release of the company’s expert-level 3D printing software netfabb Professional 6. They say this revised and extended version…
From Children to NASA Astronauts: Microsoft & Autodesk Just Blew the Cover Off of 3D Printing With 3MF
Imagine one day your kindergartener comes home from school, logs onto your a computer and literally within minutes begins 3D printing a toy that his friend emailed to him 5…
How to 3D Print Your MRI Data
Tyson James is a civil engineering student who is dedicated to teaching people the intricacies of 3D printing at Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library and encourages students to utilize the…
Adam Proctor’s 3D Footprint Keepsake is The Perfect Gift For New Parents
Adam Proctor is a founding member of the North Shore 3D Printing Club and a member of New England Creative who runs his own 3D printing hub outside of Boston, and…
Bahraini Designer Creates the Ultimate 3D Printed Crysis Nanosuit
In the past several months, we have seen 3D printing lend several helpful hands in the replication of tangible video game props. Prior to this technology, fans of games and movies would only…
3D Printed Ventilator Manifold Might One Day Save Patients from Lung Damage
During October 1948, a cool snap descended on the small mill town of Donora, Pennsylvania. The people in Donora were dependent on the steel and zinc factories that surrounded their town,…
Swiss Maker and Teacher 3D Prints Scale Model of the Eiffel Tower in 100 Pieces
It took Gustave Eiffel and company a little over two years to complete the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris. During the fundraising that preceded the construction of the then very…
A Poetics of Failure: Sophie Kahn Uses 3D Printing to Challenge the Digital Era
In the mid-’90s I attended Philosophy graduate school when something called “deconstruction” was all the rage. In a nutshell, deconstruction criticizes a Western philosophical assumption that the natural and social worlds are objective…
