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Software
OrcaSlicer 2.4.2 Lands With Preset-Recovery Fixes and More Reliable Cloud Sync
OrcaSlicer 2.4.2, released July 7, 2026, repairs presets broken by renamed printer/filament profiles, stops cloud sync from silently re-enabling disabled filament overrides, and squashes several crash bugs.
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Materials
Aalto University's 3D-Printed 'Metacrystal' Panels Could Steer 6G Signals Without Any Electronics
Aalto University researchers 3D printed passive 'metacrystal' panels that bend radio waves around obstacles for a few tens of euros apiece — no power, antennas, or active tuning required.
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Guides
ASTM's New Defense Certification Guide Aims to End the AM Qualification Patchwork
ASTM and the UK MOD's Project TAMPA published a free, tech-agnostic guide that sorts 3D-printed defense parts into four criticality classes and two certification paths, aiming to stop programs from reinventing AM qualification from scratch.
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Printers
Mimaki's Full-Color 3DUJ-553 Prints One-Piece Golf Bag Collectibles for LIV Golf's 'Art of Golf' Series
Mimaki's 3DUJ-553 inkjet printer is turning out licensed, single-piece full-color golf bag miniatures for LIV Golf's Cleeks Club 'Art of Golf' series — no painting, no assembly, just print and ship.
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Industry
India Sinks Its First 3D-Printed Coral Reef Modules Off the Tamil Nadu Coast
Chennai construction-printing startup Tvasta and ICAR-CMFRI deployed India's first 3D-printed artificial reef modules in the Gulf of Mannar, swapping rebar-and-formwork casting for printed crevices designed to lure specific marine species.
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Business
Chinese Metal-AM Player Backed by Academician Wang Huaming Files for $250M+ Shanghai IPO
Beijing-founded, Xiong'an-registered metal 3D-printing firm Yuding Additive has filed to raise roughly RMB 1.8 billion on Shanghai's STAR Market to expand titanium and ultra-high-strength-steel printing for aerospace and nuclear programs.
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Materials
Indian Researchers at ARCI 3D Print Crack-Free Stainless Steel-Inconel Bimetallic Structure
ARCI scientists in Hyderabad used laser powder bed fusion to fuse SS316L onto Inconel 718 with no cracking, hitting 550 MPa tensile strength — a step toward using superalloy only where heat demands it.
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Guides
CubeRaman: A Fully 3D-Printed Raman Spectrometer Built for Hackaday's Frikkin Lasers Challenge
A maker known as Allegedly Science built CubeRaman, a 3D-printed cube-housed Raman spectrometer with magnet-held kinematic mounts, and confirmed it works by detecting the Raman shift of a raw diamond.
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Software
Makr3D Opens Beta for a White-Label 3D-Print Fulfillment Platform Aimed at Etsy and Shopify Sellers
UK-based Yorkshire3D has opened beta access to Makr3D, a cloud fulfillment service that prints, checks, packs, and ships 3D-printed goods under a seller's own brand from a 100+ Bambu Lab printer farm.
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Printers
Nikon SLM Solutions and Bosch 3D Print a Complete V8 Engine Block as a Single Aluminum Part
Nikon SLM Solutions and Bosch used a multi-laser NXG XII 600 to print an entire V8 engine block in AlSi10Mg with no casting or tooling, signaling metal AM's push into serious automotive production.
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Business
PTC Industries Approves Roughly $210M Raise to Expand Aerospace Metal 3D-Printing Capacity
Indian aerospace-materials firm PTC Industries' board cleared a Rs 1,800 crore ($210M) fundraise to scale up titanium and superalloy metal 3D-printing capacity at subsidiary Aerolloy Technologies.
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Business
Alpine and Lacoste's One-Off Rally Car Hides 3D-Printed Lattice Seats Under the Crocodile Livery
Alpine and Lacoste's one-off A290 Rallye conceals ERPRO's 3D-printed lattice seat structures beneath embroidered crocodile upholstery — a small but telling sign that additive manufacturing has moved from prototyping into brand-collaboration hardware.
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