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Fresh off a nearly RMB200M Series A, China's Global Laser Box says several hundred of its $4,988 compact metal printers have shipped and its voice-controlled third-gen GLB-M1 opens global crowdfunding at the end of November.
Lynxter's patented OVERTIME option for the S300X LIQ21 and LIQ11 aims to beat silicone's curing-time limit inside the print head, claiming about 36x more print autonomy and letting the full build volume go into one print. It will be shown at Formnext.
Bambu Lab will launch the H3C, a nine-tool changer with a drop-down rack, on November 3 at 9 AM EST. That would be more tools than the Prusa XL or Snapmaker U1 offer, but specs, price and how the swap works are still unannounced.
Japan's HORKOS and Spain's Meltio have built a twin-head hybrid machine that switches between wire-laser metal deposition and precision cutting in one setup. One unit is already sold, and the companies plan to demo it at JIMTOF 2026.
Five months after its debut, Peopoly's 800 mm-cube Giga 800 pellet printer goes on general sale from $15,000 with laser-assisted bed leveling, a 3 kg/h screw extruder, open Klipper firmware and US stock shipping in 7-10 days.
Prusa's 400C HT Hotend is shipping now, and it comes with HighTemp sheets for CORE One+/L+, new PPS and PPA-CF filaments, and Prusa's own measurements of up to 23% better layer adhesion on standard Prusaments. The 60C chamber still limits PEEK and PEI.
Addireen, the Shenzhen maker of green-laser metal printers, now runs AddireenNow: upload a CAD file and one team handles the quote, DfAM review, printing, post-processing and inspection for pure copper, CuCrZr, AlSi10Mg, 316L and Ti6Al4V parts.
Finland's University of Turku has fitted a three-drum Schaeffler Aerosint recoater to its Aconity MIDI+ LPBF machine, so a single layer can mix refractory metals and copper for plasma hardware that has to survive heat fluxes above 17 MW/m².
AIM3D and AM-MRO certified a pellet-fed ExAM A 510 for aerospace ULTEM 9085 parts by locking down process parameters, heating the chamber on every side and replacing the viewing window with a camera, so tensile strength holds no matter which machine prints a part or where it sits on the bed.
An Empa-led team dropped solvent debinding for a single wick step in an alumina powder bed and got extrusion-printed AA6061 aluminium to 97.9% relative density, against roughly 75-94% with solvent debinding. The catch is time: 24 h of debinding and 10 h of sintering.
TU Delft's FilaLoom is a bolt-on, electronics-free tool changer that lets a stock Bambu Lab A1 switch between extruding PETG and laying down cotton or polyester yarn, producing woven structures, soft textures and cable-driven parts. It will be presented at SCF '26 in Tokyo this December.
Admatec's Admaflex Discovery packs its industrial ceramic DLP process into a $92,500 benchtop unit for universities and R&D labs. It prints alumina, silica and open slurries, and it can be upgraded later into a larger standalone machine.
Tripo AI's open-source EdenLive turns rough game-engine or agent-built visuals into detailed 720p video at more than 24 FPS on a single RTX 5090. Weights, runtime code and a prompt-to-game pipeline are all public.
Snapmaker's OrcaSlicer 2.4.1 beta reworks how the toolhead approaches the prime tower, adds tree-support transitions and paint-penetration layers to cut colour bleed, and changes bridge defaults quietly enough that U1 owners should re-check their profiles.
Anycubic's exclusive Thingiverse deal brings 2M+ models to a dedicated Makeronline section on Nov 17, with selected files adapted for multicolor and converted to 3MF, though supported printers are still unconfirmed.
Artec 3D's new Artec Twins fuses scanner, drone, smartphone and satellite data into one project, generates Gaussian splats locally, and renders billion-point clouds at up to 200 fps. It costs $6,840 a year or $17,100 for a lifetime license.
HEXOstudios, a local-only Mac app that catalogs and previews 3D files without moving them, has a free 1.1 update that brings it to twelve formats, including Rhino, FreeCAD and glTF, and adds 3D G-code toolpath previews and a Send to Slicer hand-off.
Romanian print bureau 3Descu now lets ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and VS Code return FDM and SLA quotes from a public STL or OBJ link through an MCP server. It needs no account or API key, and people still check every file before anything is printed.
Northrop Grumman Marine Systems has ordered a large-scale ARCEMY X wire-arc system worth about A$2.2M (US$1.54M) from AML3D, the company's first order from this Navy prime, bringing its US contract book to 17 ARCEMY systems.
Materials-led Chinese 3D printing firm PollyPolymer (Boli Technology) has broken ground on a RMB500M (US$74.9M) HQ and factory in Wujiang, Suzhou, betting that footwear revenue and a robotics push can support RMB400M+ in annual output by 2029.
Grenzebach Additive Solutions now offers turnkey, manufacturer-independent automation for the whole post-processing chain (loading, buffering, transport, depowdering, CNC links) and takes full project responsibility. It will show the setup at Formnext 2026.
Wisconsin contract shop Evology is buying a quad-laser EOS M 400-4, its eighth metal machine and tenth EOS system, and joining EOS's Production Partner Network. The reason is a space-customer backlog and a rule to add capacity once lead times pass two to three weeks.
SprintRay is no longer just a printer company: at 3DNext 2026 it launched Foundation, its first intraoral scanner, and the compact Nano print-wash-cure line for single-patient jobs. Both ship in November, and the scanner puts SprintRay in direct competition with established scanner makers.
3D Systems has opened a 50,000 sq ft Industrial Technology Center in Littleton, Colorado, bringing its additive manufacturing footprint to about 270,000 sq ft and putting a defense-grade compliance stack behind its push into aerospace, defense and semiconductor equipment parts.
RepRapMicron's open PIKA UV head cures resin through a hacksawed telecom patch cord and a cheap UV LED, hitting roughly 9 µm features and a 0.5 mm Benchy, and its wiki doubles as a full build guide.
CMF's new $59 Speaker S and $109 Speaker M have pop-off panels and knobs, and the company has published official STL files with print advice on materials, layer height and orientation. Here is how to use them.
Joshua Bird's bedroom-built drone flies on one motor, steering with 45-degree hinged 3D-printed blades, printed fins and custom ArduPilot and moteus firmware that reacts in under 0.2 ms. The CAD files are open for makers to print and study.
Addcomposites has posted four free, simulation-driven video courses with 179 lessons in total. The 50-lesson LFAM course explains the layer-time, weld and warp problems behind metre-scale pellet printing, and anyone can watch it without signing up.
WeeklyVentures' CADlingo 2.0 beta turns text prompts into editable multi-part parametric assemblies in the browser, with per-part export, free STL output for slicers and STEP export on eligible paid plans.
AM Europe's new map of 83 research organisations in 18 countries shows plenty of lab activity in metals, repair and testing, but small firms still struggle to find facilities, compare services, pay for qualification and reuse test data.
At Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Michigan, the Army is fitting an existing building with 3D-printed exterior panels, sized from a LiDAR digital twin. The DoD-funded pilot has big efficiency targets, the published numbers don't all agree, and the results are due in 2027.
Spectroplast, Munich Medical Devices and FIDENTIS now share production, lab and office space in a Munich hub, combining silicone, PEEK implant and multi-metal dental printing to cut costs and speed regulated products to market.
Ellsworth Air Force Base is printing the walls of a Unit Control Center at Camp Lancer, the first 3D-printed building in Global Strike Command and in South Dakota, as a proof of concept for printed structures in deployed environments.
Carbon says Digital Light Synthesis has now made more than one million bike saddles across 11 brands and 60+ models, which turns the printed elastomer lattice from a showpiece into a commodity part.
Ukraine's GUR says Russia's low-cost Filin cruise missile pairs a carbon and fiberglass airframe and some 3D-printed parts with dozens of Western and Asian electronic components. Here's what the reporting actually supports, and what it says about cheap manufacturing and leaky supply chains.
Nikon Advanced Manufacturing will deliver multiple custom two-meter-tall NXG-E-based laser powder bed fusion systems under a Department of War COTA contract, building Tomahawk missile mid-bodies at its Long Beach, California technology center.
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