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Concord AM Capital announces itself as a strategic investor in Formlabs

Top 10 AM journalists

Western Report #3: Stratasys and Velo3D report Q2 results, while Formlabs prepares for an IPO and reshuffles its board

China Watch #3: Farsoon prepares its largest-ever financing, while Chinese 3D printer exports overtake industrial robots

The metal 3D printing industry is afraid of its own shadow, and pays millions for it

Continuous Composites sues Anisoprint (FibreSeek) for patent infringement over continuous-fiber printing

The company that created the market and is still looking for its place in it

Western Report #2: lots of executive changes and lots of AI

China Watch #2: JLC goes public with a valuation of over RMB 115 billion (and nine other stories)

Dyndrite and America Makes take on LPBF qualification for US Defense

REPORT: Bondtech "nozzlegate"

The 3D printing market is growing and will continue to grow, but it remains a niche manufacturing method

Western Report #1: a week on the Western 3D printing market

China Watch #1: a week on China’s 3D printing market

You write a sentence - CAD does the work. You can now control FreeCAD through Claude and ChatGPT!

Rafał Tomasiak returns as CEO of Zortrax

America invented 3D printing. Today, it has only a handful of manufacturers left...

The last Atomic Layers like this...

PunchForm: a free app that applies a different texture to every face of a model

BREAKING NEWS: Murchinson takes control of Nano Dimension’s board as CEO David Stehlin steps down

The Inventor’s Dilemma

Würth turned off the lights at Additive Group

SphereneNXT: designing the inside of 3D printed parts moves to the browser

"SPAC merger means death" revisited. How the stock market revealed the true face of 3D printing companies.

BigRep leaves the stock market to survive

Joel Telling built software for his own print farm. Then he gave it away for free.

Things nobody asked for (but looked pretty cool)

A million square feet of metal AM

Get an invoice

Withdrawal

A special announcement!

The €1 million metal Ender 3

Desktop metal printer for $4,888. PolyJet for under $2,000. Trust, but verify.

Print it yourself

What did we learn?

A really great week for metal AM

AMIS 3.5.1 connects directly to HP MJF and finally shows what really happens to your file

Fuse X1 and ā€žThe Great Escape Forwardā€

Spectrum is about to end five years of constant "out of stockā€ saga...

The world’s most expensive free designer

Let’s talk about 3D printed insoles

Metal AM never had a printer problem - the problem was where nobody was looking

Lasers have matured - now the battle is about software

When you create a technology everyone talks about, but hardly anyone uses

From one hand to another - Stratasys acquires Markforged from Nano Dimension

Aibuild FETS - what ā€œ10,000x faster simulationā€ actually means

Escape from the Chicken Coop

Creality goes public: a sky-high valuation, and down-to-earth results

292 colors from 5 filaments 😳

Afraid AI will take your job? Go into AM - AI won't replace you there šŸ˜Ž

3D Systems reports Q1 2026 results, sparking cautious optimism

BumpMesh- a browser-based tool that makes 3D texture mapping easy

Materialise’s exit from eyewear proves The I Market Law of Additive Manufacturing

3D Prod acquires Sculpteo and aims to create a European leader in 3D printing services

Split3r 1.5.0: full color goes beyond the build plate

The carousel doesn’t stop spinning: how the stock market flirts with 3D printing but still forgets to ask about revenue

Amnovis lands in the US - Belgium enters the Silicon Valley of orthopedics

Anthropic connects Claude with Autodesk Fusion and Blender (among others)

Most 3D printer users haven’t used 3D printing yet

The world’s largest 3D printer and a cancelled IPO - the curious case of Eplus3D

The software layer no one talks about

The founder’s paradox

The new HP 3D printer likely puts an end to rumors about exiting the AM market

Bambu Lab releases BambuStudio update with Color Mixing feature!

It was never about 3D printing

Nano Dimension sells AME and Fabrica. In other words - it’s selling itself... 🤨

Prompt2CAD: AI designs furniture. But does it really...?

Towards the renewal

+1000 subscribers

The uncomfortable truth about open-source software

Six years after

Buy the Book! Be grateful for once...

ā€œNo Python Hacksā€ - or how old 3D printing is trying to keep us in the past

Eco Fiasco

Very small and very precise parts - Boston Micro Fabrication launches its first desktop 3D printers

A map for the 3D printing experience

Additive Manufacturing Clowns

The cake is too small for such a large party

Autodesk implements Wonder 3D - an AI image generation model from prompts - into Flow Studio

Running circles

iNEW3D QC2A: full-color UV 3D printing comes to your desk, but it won’t be all that simple

Polymaker launches a powerful material tool, but the core problem remains

3D printing escaped the maker bubble

5000 printers factory

Operator vs. algorithm – where does automation of process decisions in AM actually end?

Gross margins, real growth, and knowing when to leave: John Kawola's 28 years in AM

Dyndrite is hitting the road again. And they have something important to say...

AMIS Runtime promises to automate AM build preparation workflows

It's all just a gamble

Breaking news: MyMiniFactory acquires Thingiverse!

Pretty renders, ugly prints

Making Impossible Objects

The new investment logic in industrial Additive Manufacturing

How to fight 3D model piracy?

An inevitable AI crash could revive the AM industry

Creality tries to break the curse and offers a 21st-century home filament factory

Six levels of 3D printer security against 3D-printed guns

How one LinkedIn DM helped launch Bambu Lab Europe

Guns, guns, guns! And some weapons...

Where is this AI boom in AM?

What can you do with 50 units of outdated 3D printers?

It’s unbelievable how much has changed in just two years…

AI makes everything bland - does it affect designing parts for AM?

3D-hands, hope, and humility - the story of e-Nable Poland

Formlabs is getting bigger than ever, while a 'Dark Horse' revealed itself for the first time at CES in Las Vegas

AI industry is going to crash, destroying the world economy šŸ’€ Will it affect 3D printing?

Reinforced from the inside - explaining the continuous fiber injection technology

The Great Rebirth