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Software
Bambu Studio 2.8.0 Beta Pulls CAD-Style Assembly Guides Into the Slicer
Bambu Studio 2.8.0 Public Beta adds an Assembly Guide tool that turns an imported STEP file into exploded-view, step-by-step build instructions inside the slicer, plus counterbore-hole bridging modes and better time-lapse output.
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Materials
Baked, Printed, Ready: Chalmers Turns Baker's Yeast Into 3D-Printable Architecture
Chalmers researchers built a fully bio-based, biodegradable architectural material around deactivated baker's yeast, pressure-printed at room temperature with no support structures, and debuted printed screens and panels in a June 2026 premiere.
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Printers
Elegoo's Open-Frame Centauri 2 Pushes CoreXY Multicolor Under $300
Elegoo's open-frame Centauri 2 lands at $299, with the four-color Combo at $379, pairing 500 mm/s CoreXY motion with the new CANVAS multicolor system and escalating the sub-$400 multicolor price war.
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Industry
RIT's Eight-Nozzle Molten Metal Jetting Printhead Takes Aim at Metal AM's Throughput Wall
RIT's AMPrint Center showed an eight-nozzle molten metal jetting printhead that fires droplets like an inkjet, chasing higher metal AM throughput without losing resolution -- and tying into work on printing recycled scrap metal.
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Industry
3D Printing on the Water: Marine Applications, Material Selection, and the Limits of What FDM Can Build
From replacement cleats to instrument housings and full hull experiments, 3D printing is finding a permanent role in marine environments. ASA and CF-PETG are doing real work; full hull printing is closer than it sounds but further than the headlines suggest.
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Printers
Creality K1C Review: Carbon Fiber Capability at the Entry Point of Speed Printing
The K1C is Creality's answer to the question of whether a 600 mm/s CoreXY machine can handle abrasive composite filaments without constant nozzle replacement. The answer is mostly yes, with caveats that matter for serious users.
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Guides
Manual Color Swaps Without an AMS: G-Code Pause Commands in PrusaSlicer, OrcaSlicer, and Bambu Studio
Multi-color printing without a filament changer is entirely achievable using M600 and pause-at-layer commands. The slicer implementations differ in important ways, and getting the G-code sequencing wrong produces failed swaps, ooze blobs, or color bleed that contaminates the swap layer.
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Guides
The Science of UV Post-Curing Resin Prints: Wavelength, Time, and Temperature
Post-curing is the most underestimated variable in MSLA and DLP resin printing. Get the wavelength, timing, and temperature wrong and your parts will be brittle, tacky, or dimensionally unstable regardless of how well they printed.
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Materials
TPU vs TPE vs TPC: Choosing the Right Flexible Filament for the Job
Flexible filaments are not interchangeable. TPU, TPE, and TPC differ substantially in hardness, chemical resistance, print temperature, and long-term fatigue behavior. Choosing the wrong one means a part that either fails in service or was never printable in the first place.
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Software
3MF: Why the 3D Printing Industry Is Moving Away From STL
STL has been the default 3D printing format for 35 years. The 3MF format does everything STL does and adds color, material, orientation, and multi-part support — here's why the transition is accelerating.
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Software
Bambu Studio Support Painting: Precise Manual Control Over Auto-Generated Supports
Bambu Studio's support painting tool lets you block auto-generated supports, add manual supports to specific faces, and enforce tree vs normal support type per region. Here's how to use it effectively.
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Software
Meshmixer for 3D Printing: Repair, Hollow, and Orient Files the Easy Way
Meshmixer is free, actively maintained, and handles the mesh repair and hollowing workflows that slicers handle poorly. Here's the toolkit every maker should know.
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