3D Printers, materials and technologies | Sculpteo Blog

What we call “3D Printing” includes different fabrication methods. It would be more accurate to call it “Additive Manufacturing”. Only one technology works like printing and worth to be called 3D Printing: it’s 3DP. – Stereo Lithography Apparatus (SL...

Made in Space, a start-up dedicated to providing solutions for manufacturing in space, announced the successful completion of testing 3D printers in zero-gravity. The test took place on multiple zero-gravity flights provided by NASA’s Flight Opportun...

Sam Green from Objet Geometries made his first video blog post yesterday. He shows how an Objet Connex 500 3D printer can produce 6 different size adjustable wrenches from 5cm in size to 49 cm in size – all in one print run. The wrenches are made of ...

Fortus 250mc is the most affordable of all Fortus systems. Insight software, used to drive the Fortus line of production 3D printers, allows users to control the look, strength and precision of parts: “The engineers interested in this new product wil...

Youtube user Shrogg2 made a series of videos about his 3D Printer in Minecraft. The first video is a demo of the “birth of a creep”. It’s easy to understand because there’s no explanation 🙂 Only music. If you want to know how it works, you can check ...

The VoxelJet VX 4000 has a build space of 4 x 2 x 1 meters The Micro 3D Printer from Vienna University is the size of a milk carton...

The project is funded as part of the Research Council UK Cross-Research Council Programme – Digital Economy and is managed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) on behalf of ESRC, AHRC and MRC. It is being led by the Unive...

Watch Ben Heck building his first 3D printer loosely based after Reprap open source design but redesigned from scratch. It’s very interesting to see what kind of issues can arise building your own 3D Printer. At the end of the video Ben visits Maker ...

On August 2010, in the deserts of Siwa (Egypt), Markus Kayser explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy (sun) and material (sand) occur in abundance. The Solar Sinter machine was tested for a two week period in mid-May. In the dese...

Kevin McAlea, VP Global Marketing at 3D Systems, explains how SLS works. The machine used is a Vanguard Si You can see the step by step process on 3Dsystems.com – Mirrors direct the laser beam across the bed of powder – The Co2 laser selectively scan...