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Business
Vivobarefoot's Tabi Gen 02 Drops SLS for Carbon DLS After Its First Custom Sandal Proved Too Heavy and Abrasive
Vivobarefoot's first scan-to-print sandal drew more than 1,300 paid reservations but was too heavy, abrasive and costly to make with SLS, so Tabi Gen 02 moves to Carbon DLS in a PU foam printed by OECHSLER.
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Printers
Creality Pika Reviewed: A 260 g Handheld 3D Scanner for $699
Tom's Hardware's review finds Creality's 260 g, $699 Pika scanner cheap, light and capable on small, shiny and black parts, with mature Creality Scan software. Its near-infrared tracking mode is the weak spot.
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Industry
China Registers a US$576M Titanium Sponge Plant as Metal-AM Feedstock Supply Shifts
Guangdong Hengtai cleared a RMB 3.837B (about US$576M) filing for 25,000 t/yr of titanium sponge in Maoming. It is not a powder plant and has no commissioning date, but it adds to China's hold on the raw material behind titanium AM feedstock.
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Materials
Printed Nitinol Braids: IMDEA and UPM Make Stents That Bend Without Breaking
IMDEA and UPM have patented a one-step method for 3D printing braided superelastic nitinol implants. In lab tests the braids survived 50% compression, recovered more than 90% of their shape, and pushed on vessel walls with up to 5x less force than printed lattices. They have not yet been tested in living tissue.
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Business
Josef Prusa Says It Is 'One Minute to Midnight' for Western Desktop 3D Printer Makers
Josef Prusa warns that subsidized Chinese rivals are squeezing Western printer makers into "slow suffocation" and that cheap desktop machines are eating industrial's low end. We checked his claims against Creality's filings, CONTEXT shipment data and the FY2026 NDAA.
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Software
Running a Printed Concrete Wall Backward: Rowan's Reverse-Time Image Correlation
Rowan University engineers run digital image correlation backward, from the finished structure through thousands of images, and use concrete's own surface roughness as the tracking pattern to reconstruct how printed walls deform, shrink and cure as they go up.
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Software
Cura 5.14 Beta Brings Paint-On Support, Tabbed Settings and a Windows-on-ARM Build
UltiMaker's Cura 5.14.0-beta.1 lets you paint where supports go, where they don't and where the engine decides, and also makes tabbed settings the default, adds a Windows-on-ARM build and moves to Qt 6.10.
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Industry
LEGO's Venetian Neighbourhood Set Ships a Playable 3D-Printed Street Piano
LEGO's 5,682-piece Icons Venetian Neighbourhood includes a 3D-printed mini street piano that plays notes when you turn a flower vase. It is the company's second mass-market printed part, and it suggests the Holiday Express Train was not a one-off.
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Business
MELD PrintWorks Builds a New Virginia Plant to Print Larger Solid-State Metal Parts
MELD PrintWorks is building a purpose-built 12,000 sq ft plant in Christiansburg, Virginia, opening in 2027. It will house larger solid-state metal printers for aluminum, titanium and copper parts, aimed at customers who cannot get forgings and castings.
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Guides
Addcomposites Releases Free Composites Courses, Including 50 Lessons on Large-Format Pellet Printing
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.
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Software
Creallo Atlas: A Free Offline 3D Viewer That Also Quotes Manufacturing Cost
Creallo's free Atlas desktop viewer for Windows, macOS and Linux opens STL, STEP and IGES files without a CAD license, measures and repairs meshes locally, and quotes printing, CNC and casting costs, though so far every claim comes from the company.
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Printers
Freemelt Wins Prototype Order to Test Electron-Beam Printing of Refractory Metals for Defense
An unnamed defense company with operations in Sweden has ordered prototype refractory-metal parts from E-PBF specialist Freemelt for a feasibility study. It is Freemelt's second high-temperature metal order in two months, after a September tungsten volume order for fusion research.
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