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ELEGOO's first filament dryer, the $70 H1 HT, heats to 85°C with automatic spool rotation, dual active-dehumidification vents, and a separate bypass outlet for TPU and fiber-filled filaments.
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R3 Printing, an LA startup, is shipping domestically built industrial FFF machines — including a PEEK-capable Ultra in August — that hit ultra-high-temp polymers on a standard 120V/20A outlet, with open materials and no VC backing.
Sinterit will resell DyeMansion's VX1 vapour smoothing system alongside its new €47,000 BIANCO2 SLS printer, putting the industrial finishing chain and a 137-parameter open-profile powder bed machine in the same quote for the first time.
HeyGears' G1 Series went live on Kickstarter July 23 with the flagship G1X Full-3D at $3,599 — an Epson i3200, 8-channel, 45 kg machine that also does texture relief and 2D UV on 400+ substrates — but campaign pricing has already drifted $300 above the deposit quote and the specs disagree with each other.
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Polymaker's new HT-PLA Pro nearly doubles notched Charpy impact strength over standard HT-PLA and boosts Z-axis layer adhesion, while still hitting 107.6°C heat deflection after annealing — at the same $25.99/kg price.
Lyten's 3D Graphene-reinforced PA1205 nylon is now the primary material for Modovolo's containerized BFP printing platform, with the companies claiming big strength gains over carbon-fiber filament ahead of joint military demos.
Prusa's new castor-oil-based PA11 nylon lands between PA6 and PA12 with lower moisture uptake, strong impact resistance and broad chemical resistance — but it needs an enclosed, chamber-heated printer to run.
One anonymous U.S. defense contract manufacturer just ordered more than CAD $3 million of Ti-6Al-4V powder from Tekna for 2026 — six times its 2025 total — and consumable volume like that is the clearest public signal yet that metal additive manufacturing has moved from prototyping into serial production.
Dutch startup Hembased is selling a cold-compostable FDM filament made from fallen palm leaves at 32 euros/kg, claiming 12-month breakdown in a home compost bin — but the category dates to 2013 and the company names no third-party compostability certification.
Concordia researchers print carbon/epoxy laminates flat, then let engineered thermal-expansion mismatch curl them into finished vertical-axis turbine blades on cooling — no curved mold, ~80% lighter than aluminum, and faster-spinning in lab tests.
Belgian service bureau 3iD Printing has installed AM-Flow's label-free machine-vision sorting line to eliminate the manual post-processing bottleneck as order volumes scale.
Hexagon linked its ATLASCAN Pro handheld scanner with Geomagic Design X, claiming CAD rebuilds of obsolete aircraft parts up to 8x faster — aimed squarely at aerospace MRO teams recreating cabin and structural components for 3D printing.
OrcaSlicer's nightlies now carry a capability-based Python plugin architecture with an embedded `orca` module, a CPython audit hook and a new per-plugin storage API in draft PR #14923 — and the official docs call the security layer "groundwork, not a hardened sandbox."
A GitHub repo has reconstructed parametric CAD for Prusa's INDX toolchanger from Prusa's own printable mesh and published it as CC BY-SA 4.0 — a share-alike claim that runs straight into the Open Community License, which says any distributed derivative stays under OCL.
IMDEA Materials and Berkeley Lab built an algorithm that profiles the operational "personality" of nominally identical 3D printers, then decides whether to optimize them jointly or individually — cutting part-weight errors and speeding convergence across three theoretically identical machines.
Meshy closed a $400M Series B on July 20, 2026 — which it calls the largest round ever in 3D generative AI — behind text- and photo-to-3D tools that export print-ready STL, OBJ, GLB and FBX files straight to your slicer.
Zellerfeld's July 27 relaunch pairs a Volumental-powered ZellerFIT sizing profile and live creator rankings with a first look at a 4-pairs-a-year 3D-printed shoe subscription.
Vancouver's Aspect Biosystems has drawn $79M from the Government of Canada — part of a $280M initiative — to scale a 3D bioprinting platform that programs stem cells and hides them from the immune system, with printed insulin-producing islets for Type 1 diabetes as the lead application.
The consolidator that swallowed Desktop Metal and Markforged has installed an interim CEO and a new chairman to finish dismantling the portfolio — and to steer the company out of additive manufacturing entirely.
Eaton's new European Centre of Additive Manufacturing in Wimborne, England is its third AM site globally, houses its largest metal printer, and is aiming at AS9100-certified titanium production via electron beam — a telling signal about who actually buys industrial metal printers in 2026.
Sciperio, nScrypt's research division, has been granted US Patent 12,654,396 B2 for a servo-controlled progressive cavity pump that dispenses materials above 1,000,000 centipoise — the IP foundation under the QuantiHelix platform and nScrypt's DoD point-of-need business.
EOS is ending new sales of its FORMIGA SLS platform after nearly two decades, pushing toward larger automated systems like the P3 NEXT — while refurbisher Inframotion 3D moves to keep the cheaper machine alive.
Annealing reheats a finished print near its glass transition to recrystallize the polymer, trading a little dimensional accuracy for real gains in strength and heat resistance — as Polymaker's HT-PLA Pro shows with a 30-minute, 100C cycle.
A V-0 rating is always tied to a wall thickness — here's what UL 94, FAR 25.853 and ASTM E662 actually certify, which flame-retardant filaments, resins and powders you can buy, and why printing certified material does not give you a certified part.
Rail manufacturers are trading calipers and go/no-go gauges for metrology-grade 3D scanning that maps full parts against CAD to 0.004mm — the same deviation-mapping workflow makers use for reverse engineering and print verification.
Hackaday's July 19 roundup of seven magnet-installation methods lands on an uncomfortable truth: the friction-fit pocket most makers default to loosens over time thanks to thermal creep in the plastic. Here are the alternatives, plus the slot math and pause workflow that make them work.
All3DP's refreshed July 16, 2026 guide maps the routes back to printing after hardware fails — manufacturer support, warranties, returns, paid repair and authorized resellers — and pairs naturally with iFixit's teardowns for the DIY option.
Direct Ink Writing extrudes viscous pastes at room temperature, printing silicone, ceramics, metals, graphene and living tissue that FDM can't touch — a guide to how DIW works and why makers should care.
Airbus has qualified Roboze's ARGO 500 HYPERSPEED platform, printing unmodified ULTEM 9085 filament, to produce flight-ready secondary structural aircraft parts.
New Mexico State's NSF-funded DREAM Research Center just ran its third annual AMPD workshop, teaching K-12 educators to model, slice and operate 3D printers — and finding that the software, not the hardware, is the real wall.
Nagami and Zaha Hadid Architects have released the ECHO Chair, a made-to-order seat printed as a single continuous piece via large-format extrusion in recycled PETG, priced from EUR669 to EUR1,231 depending on color.
Under the AFRL-funded Project ACME, Youngstown's JuggerBot 3D is scaling the H6-106 — a large-format system that runs pellet-fed thermoplastic extrusion and two-part thermoset dispensing inside one heated chamber to build aerospace tooling.
RIC Robotics and Sacramento builder K4k Construction completed the city's first permitted 3D-printed building, a 1,200 sq ft ADU whose wall system was printed in 12 days — a marker of autonomous construction crossing from demo to occupied home.
Kalogon's new Verro line pairs a 3D printed variable-density elastomer lattice wheelchair cushion with something far rarer than clever geometry — Medicare code E2609, the thing that decides whether additive manufacturing reaches patients or just trade-show booths.
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