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Printers
Formlabs Form Studio 1: A $699 Resin Printer Aimed at Desks, Not Workshops
Formlabs' $699 Form Studio 1 is its cheapest resin printer and claims a resin-printer first in UL GREENGUARD Gold certification, but only when paired with Alpha Resins and the VOC Extractor, and its success-rate figures don't quite agree.
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Business
ICON Raises $200M Series D as 3D-Printed Construction Scales Toward Titan Rollout
ICON has raised a $200M Series D co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock-managed funds to build its Titan robotic systems, open a large Austin R&D facility and expand across Texas, Florida and D.C. It also says it has passed 270 printed buildings and is on pace for 4x revenue growth in 2026.
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Materials
One Extra Contour, 60% More Strength: Novineer's FDM Toolpath Test Data
In test data from work with Stratasys, Novineer reports that the toolpath alone can change an FDM beam's bending sixfold, and that one extra outline pass added 60% strength to coupons in their weakest orientation.
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Printers
Thomas Sanladerer Finds the Prusa CORE One INDX Struggles With Non-Prusa Filament
Thomas Sanladerer's review, as summarized by Hackaday, finds that the Prusa CORE One INDX's mandatory calibration is built around Prusament, that manual calibration results are not saved and that the hardware blocks the camera, while a Prusa XL just worked.
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Industry
UpNano's 3D Adaptive Resolution Reshapes the 2PP Voxel to Kill the Staircase on Freeform Optics
UpNano's new 3D Adaptive Resolution controls the two-photon polymerization voxel in X, Y and Z, and the company claims it prints micro-optics in seconds with Sq 3 nm surface roughness and better than 20 nm shape accuracy for silicon photonics and co-packaged optics.
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Software
Creality Print 7.3.0 Bets on Full Color: Spectral Matching, Gradients and Purge That Becomes Infill
Creality Print 7.3.0 goes all-in on full-color printing with spectral-data color prediction, one-click OBJ color separation, anchored gradients and purge reused as hidden infill, plus K3 multi-nozzle support, Adaptive TPMS infill and ZAA top-surface anti-aliasing.
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Industry
America Makes Names Northrop Grumman and Fastech to Lead $12.4M MIAMI Push to Swap Legacy Alloys for Metal AM Materials
America Makes picked Northrop Grumman and Fastech to lead its $12.4M MIAMI project, which will test whether printed metals can replace legacy alloys in defense parts. Only two teams were named, although the call expected three, and the award brings 2026 defense AM qualification funding to nearly $32M.
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Printers
Bambu Lab's P2S Wins a NAPPA Parenting Award as the Family Pitch for 3D Printers Grows
Bambu Lab's enclosed P2S is a 2026 NAPPA winner and the company took four Parents' Picks categories, with parent evaluators praising its app, quiet speed, enclosure and five-color multicolor printing — a sign the $799 P2S Combo is being sold as a household machine.
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Software
ModelSplitter Is a Free Browser Tool That Cuts Oversized Models to Fit Your Printer and Writes the Assembly Guide
ModelSplitter, a free browser-based STL/3MF splitter in public beta, finds the fewest-part cut for your build volume, sizes pins, tenons and magnet sockets automatically, and exports a numbered PDF assembly guide. A Pro tier comes to Kickstarter on November 3.
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Materials
Prusa Starts Selling Prusament Pellets in Pre-Dried, Lab-Size Batches Up to 14 kg
Prusa now sells the same raw pellets it uses to make Prusament filament, shipped pre-dried in batches up to 14 kg, for large-format pellet printing and small-scale polymer R&D. The 4 kg PLA bag lists at $44.99.
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Software
Fahz 2.0 Turns Side-Profile Photos Into Print-Farm Orders With No CAD Step
The Fahz face-profile vase is back on Kickstarter after a 2018 shutdown. Software now turns photos into support-free FDM meshes and sends each order by API to Slant 3D, which prints it in PLA. Pledges start at $30 for a 3-inch vase.
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Printers
Bambu Lab Teases the S1, Its First 3D Scanner, for November 2026
Bambu Lab's first 3D scanner, the S1, is due in November 2026. So far the company has shown only a pistol-grip teaser, and there is no price or spec sheet. An FCC filing lists 60 W input and 5 GHz Wi-Fi, and two outlets name different scanner makers as Bambu's partner.
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