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Guides
A Maker Is Extruding Hollow Tubes With Compressed Air Instead of a Filament Core
Roetz-End creator Jan is replacing the solid core of printed tubing with a compressed-air stream, chasing hollow parts that are up to 90% air — but pressure swings and leaks are still winning.
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Business
Continuous Composites Sues Fibre Seek Over Ten Continuous-Fiber 3D Printing Patents
Continuous Composites has sued Anisoprint (d/b/a Fibre Seek) in Delaware federal court, alleging the FibreSeeker 3 printer infringes ten patents after three years of failed licensing talks.
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Industry
Inside the Oregon Machine Shop Where EOS SLS Printers Have Logged 800,000 Hours of Drone Flight
NW Rapid Manufacturing, an Oregon spinoff of drone-engine maker Northwest UAV, has quietly used three industrial EOS SLS systems to print end-use UAV parts now credited with over 800,000 flight hours for customers like Matternet and AeroVironment.
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Software
Backflip AI's New Foundation Model Cuts CAD Reverse-Engineering Cost From $1,500 to $10 a Part
Backflip AI's second-generation CAD foundation model turns scans and mesh files into fully parametric, feature-tree CAD in 1-5 minutes, dropping reverse-engineering cost from about $1,500 to roughly $10 a part.
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Printers
NUWC Keyport Becomes First Navy Warfare Center Approved to 3D Print Metal Parts for the Fleet
NUWC Division Keyport is now the first Navy Warfare Center with NAVSEA qualification for metal powder bed fusion, clearing an EOS M290 to print 17-4PH stainless steel tactical and shipboard parts after a seven-year effort.
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Materials
FAU Wins $800K EPA Grant to 3D Print Seaweed-Based Phosphorus Traps Against Toxic Algal Blooms
FAU landed an $800,475 EPA grant to 3D print lanthanum-modified sargassum structures that trap phosphorus in Lake Okeechobee — retrievable, regenerable lattices guided by machine learning, replacing one-shot powdered clays that settle into sediment and leach.
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Industry
From Disney Props to Drone Boats: Haddy 3D Prints the TF-179 Hull With Robotic Arms
St. Petersburg's Haddy — the shop that once printed Disney set pieces and designer furniture — has 3D printed the TF-179 Drone Boat's hull with rail-mounted robotic arms and integrated milling, joining the Ukraine-driven rush toward cheap, rapidly iterated attritable unmanned vessels.
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Software
MIT's ShiftLens Gives 3D Prints Switchable Surface Graphics — With Zero Electronics
MIT CSAIL's ShiftLens prints lenticular lens arrays over interlaced image strips so a cap twist, slider, or knob mechanically swaps a print's surface graphics — no sensors or batteries — with software that plans the optics and actuation automatically; headed to ACM UIST 2026 in Detroit.
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Printers
Prusa's INDX Conversion Kits Slip to Mid-August as Bondtech's 'Nozzlegate' Deepens
Prusa delays INDX conversion kits for the CORE One/+ to mid-August after Bondtech admitted its 'hardened' nozzles are nitrocarburized ordinary steel (~30-32 HRC vs the promised 55-60) that 100 g of abrasive filament wears through — Prusa offers refunds and free hardware while Bondtech quietly renamed the product and has no compensation plan.
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Software
ElegooSlicer v1.5.3.4 Folds In OrcaSlicer 2.4.2 as Elegoo Tunes Multicolor Print-Time Estimates for the Centauri Carbon 2
Elegoo's August 6 ElegooSlicer update merges most of OrcaSlicer 2.4.2's feature set while fixing Centauri Carbon 2 multicolor time estimates, a Neptune 3 Pro thumbnail bug, and Centauri Carbon bed temps.
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Printers
QIDI Plus5: The Plus4 Successor Grows the Build Volume 18% Without Raising the Price Floor
QIDI's new enclosed CoreXY Plus5 bumps build volume to 320x320x300mm, adds 65C active chamber heating and a 370C hotend, and still starts at $749 — the same floor as its Plus4 predecessor.
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Business
3D Systems CEO Jeff Graves to Step Down as Company Searches for Successor
3D Systems said its President/CEO Dr. Jeffrey Graves will retire once a successor is found, a transition announced alongside mixed Q2 2026 earnings after six years of restructuring and acquisitions.
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