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Software
Meshy's $400M Series B Makes It the Best-Funded Company in Generative 3D — Here's What It Means for Makers
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.
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Guides
Sub-0.005mm and No Tape Measure: How Non-Contact 3D Scanning Is Taking Over Quality Inspection
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.
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Industry
India's Skyroot Reaches Orbit on 3D-Printed Engines: Inside the Restartable Raman-1
Skyroot's Vikram-1 became the first privately developed Indian rocket to reach orbit, riding a fourth stage powered by a cluster of 3D-printed, vacuum-restartable Raman-1 engines that cut build time from months to days.
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Materials
Hembased's Palm-Leaf Filament Composts in a Backyard Bin — If You Believe the Claim
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.
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Business
A Patent for a Pump: nScrypt's Research Arm Locks Down Dispensing Materials Thicker Than a Million Centipoise
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.
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Industry
The Navy Just Cleared a 3D-Printed Copper-Nickel Valve for Submarine Duty — A Material Almost Nobody Prints
VACCO delivered a laser-powder-bed-fusion copper-nickel pressure valve cleared for US Navy submarine installation — and a second, independent supply chain is doing the same thing, which says something about where casting is losing.
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Software
CNC Kitchen's PrusaPATuner Turns Your Bed-Leveling Load Cell Into a Pressure Advance Calibrator
Stefan of CNC Kitchen has released PrusaPATuner, an experimental AGPL-3.0 tool that auto-calibrates pressure advance on Prusa printers by repurposing the nozzle load cell as a back-pressure sensor — no extra hardware, no test prints, no squinting at a calibration tower.
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Guides
Seven Ways to Put Magnets in Your 3D Prints (and Why Friction Fit Alone Will Fail You)
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.
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Industry
The Army Corps Is Printing Oyster Reefs Out of Dredged Mud in Mobile Bay
USACE deployed six 3D-printed reef domes off Coden, Alabama — printed from sediment dredged out of a disposal facility, with a built-in experiment pitting pure-sediment domes against sediment-plus-shell.
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Printers
Hands-On With the Bambu Lab X2D: Is the X1 Carbon Successor Worth $649?
Reviewers now have the Bambu Lab X2D in hand, and its dual-nozzle system, 65C heated chamber and $649 base price make the X1 Carbon's successor the most aggressively positioned X-series machine yet.
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Materials
Concordia's 'Inverse 4D Printing' Makes Wind-Turbine Blades That Fold Themselves Into Shape
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.
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Business
EOS Retires the FORMIGA After Nearly 20 Years, Ceding the Low-Cost SLS Niche
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.
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