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Industry
3D Printing Market Hits $4.48 Billion in Q2 2026, Its Sixth Straight Quarter of Growth
AM Research's Q2 2026 data, as reported by 3DPrint.com, puts 3D printing revenue at $4.48B, up 12% year over year, with services over half the market and a warning that interest rates could stall capex again.
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Software
Backflip AI Turns 2D Engineering Drawings Into Editable Parametric CAD Inside Fusion
Backflip AI's new Drawing to CAD builds parametric 3D models with editable feature trees from 2D drawings, in Autodesk Fusion and on the web, alongside a multi-photo Photo to CAD tool. The company claims $10 or less and 5-30 minutes versus about $1,500.
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Materials
IperionX Validates GenX, a Continuous Titanium Powder Furnace That Cuts Power Use Over 75%
IperionX says its continuous GenX furnace ran 500+ kg of titanium powder at about 12 kg/h, hit ASTM oxygen benchmarks, and cut power over 75% versus its own batch HAMR process. It is a feedstock milestone for metal AM.
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Business
Jury Finds Bambu Lab Willfully Infringed Four Stratasys Patents, Awards $27.6 Million
An East Texas jury found four Bambu Lab entities willfully infringed four Stratasys FDM patents and awarded about $27.6M in past damages; Bambu will seek post-trial review and appeal, and the second suit has no trial date.
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Printers
Tesseract Technologies Wants to Replace 3D Printer Belts With Linear Motors
Dutch startup Tesseract Technologies is pitching ironless, closed-loop linear motors as a direct-drive replacement for belts, piloting on a large-format FELIX Pro XXL IDEX printer, with commercial launch planned for Q1 2027.
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Software
AMCM Bakes PanX Thermal Simulation Directly Into Its EOSPRINT Build Software
AMCM has folded PanOptimization's PanX thermomechanical simulation engine into EOSPRINT itself, letting the software rewrite dwell times, geometry and laser power before a large metal build ever starts.
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Materials
3D Printed Iron-Based Metallic Glass Could Cut Losses in Electric Motors
A Saarland University and IMDEA Materials team 3D printed an Fe-Si-B-Nb-Ni metallic glass via LPBF with coercivity of just 44 A/m, at least 10x lower than prior rare-earth-free iron-based metallic glasses made the same way.
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Business
Norway's KONGSBERG Buys Multi-Laser EOS/AMCM Metal Printers for Defense Production
Norwegian defense group KONGSBERG is adding an AMCM M 4K and an AMCM M 290-2 1kW multi-laser metal printer to print demonstrator hardware and flyaway parts, with EOS's Additive Minds unit handling the integration.
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Printers
Inside a Singapore Cleanroom Where UltiMaker Printers Mass-Produce Synthetic Skin
Singapore startup Bioactivx runs a fleet of UltiMaker printers in an ISO 13485 cleanroom to mass-produce an animal-free synthetic skin substitute for burn wounds, with HSA approval secured and US/EU/AU/ASEAN filings underway.
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Industry
VulcanForms and Specter Aerospace Team Up to 3D Print Hypersonic Weapons at Scale
VulcanForms and defense contractor Specter Aerospace announced a partnership to build the first dedicated US facility for full-rate additive manufacturing of hypersonic munitions.
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Software
Software Engineer 'Vibe Codes' a System That Lets Him Throw 3D Models From VR to His Printer
A software engineer wired a Meta Quest 3 to a Bambu Lab P2S so he can physically throw a 3D model across the room and watch the printer start the job, using Bambu's local API and AI-assisted "vibe coding."
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Materials
MIT Spinout Prints Building Trusses From Recycled Plastic That Beat Wood on Strength
Atlas Building Composites, an MIT HAUS spinout, 3D prints waste-plastic-and-fiberglass trusses that hold 4,000+ pounds and already carried the Army Corps of Engineers across a Massachusetts wetland bridge.
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