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Software
LAIKA Adopts PrismSlicer to Preview Full-Color PolyJet Faces Before Printing
After a seven-month trial that added a command-line interface, stop-motion studio LAIKA has signed on to use Additive Appearance's PrismSlicer to preview the color and translucency of full-color PolyJet faces under its own set lighting, before anything is printed.
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Industry
Nike Air Works Hits Shoe Four: Masyn's 3D-Printed Slip-On and a Reshuffled Release Calendar
Nike's Zellerfeld-printed Air Works series reaches its halfway mark with a scuba-inspired slip-on from LA designer Masyn, while Mumbai's shoe slides to March 2027, which leaves no November release and shows why tooling-free printing suits tiny local runs.
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Printers
OpenCAL Goes Public: A $1,600 Build-It-Yourself Layerless Volumetric Printer
UC Berkeley's OpenCAL is now public: a roughly $1,600 build-it-yourself volumetric printer that forms whole parts in a spinning resin vial in about 90 seconds. It ships with open software, OCL 1.1-licensed hardware and a Formlabs-made resin that Prusa sells for $119.99 a liter.
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Materials
Can Chinese Metal Powder Win Abroad? VMP's Export Push and a $500M Jiuquan Powder Plant
VMP made more than 3,000 tonnes of metal powder in 2025, plans to double capacity and wants half its sales abroad within five years. Tariffs and qualification stand in the way, while a $500M aerospace tender in Jiuquan plans 6,300 tonnes a year of PREP powder.
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Software
Additive Industries and Materialise Cut MetalFab Build Prep From 46 Minutes to 6 With New Build Processor
Additive Industries and Materialise released a Next-Generation Build Processor for MetalFab printers today. In a vendor benchmark it cut pre-processing from 46 minutes to 6, and it gives existing MetalFab machines the MetalFab 420K's scan-strategy controls.
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Industry
Greenland Arctic Development Corp Buys a Caracol Heron 400 Robotic Printer for Local Manufacturing
A newly founded, Chicago-backed development company has bought a Caracol Heron 400 robotic arm printer with a 10-meter-plus rail, aiming to print boat, snowmobile and construction parts in Greenland instead of waiting for them to ship in.
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Business
Sakuu Heads to the NYSE in $600M SPAC Deal to Bring Kavian Dry-Printed Battery Electrodes to Market
Battery 3D-printing company Sakuu will go public via SPAC Pyrophyte Acquisition Corp. II at a $600M pre-money valuation under ticker SAKU, using the proceeds to push its Kavian dry electrode printing platform toward commercial availability in Q2 2027.
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Printers
VoxTech3D Becomes North American Distributor for Nano-XS3DTech Micro-DLP Printers
California service bureau VoxTech3D will exclusively distribute Nano-XS3DTech's four micro-DLP printers in the US, Canada and Mexico. The printers range from 2 to 35 microns of optical resolution, and the maker claims builds up to 10x faster than micro-SLA at lower prices.
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Industry
The Pentagon's New ManTech Strategy Promotes 'Transition' to a Top Priority for Additive Manufacturing
The FY2026-2031 ManTech strategy adds a focus area on technology transition and adoption and envisions secure digital designs sent to certified AM cells. It is a policy framework, not a spending bill, and it offers little in the way of public metrics.
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Materials
Polymaker's CymphoniK Wants Large-Format Printers to Mix 100+ Colors From Six Pellets
Polymaker's CymphoniK swaps custom masterbatch for six CMYK-plus-white-and-neutral pellets and an AI recipe tool, promising 100+ validated colors mixed on site for pellet-fed large-format printers ahead of its Formnext debut.
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Guides
One Motor, Two Hinges, No Swashplate: Inside Joshua Bird's 3D-Printed Single-Propeller Drone
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.
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Software
Two Open-Source Rust CAD Clones, Built by AI Agents, Take Aim at SolidWorks and AutoCAD
SolidCraft and CADCraft, two open-source CAD tools built largely by AI agents, publish candid self-assessments. SolidCraft's 3MF, STL and STEP export makes it worth a careful look from makers.
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