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Guides
ASTM's New Defense Certification Guide Aims to End the AM Qualification Patchwork
ASTM and the UK MOD's Project TAMPA published a free, tech-agnostic guide that sorts 3D-printed defense parts into four criticality classes and two certification paths, aiming to stop programs from reinventing AM qualification from scratch.
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Software
Makr3D Opens Beta for a White-Label 3D-Print Fulfillment Platform Aimed at Etsy and Shopify Sellers
UK-based Yorkshire3D has opened beta access to Makr3D, a cloud fulfillment service that prints, checks, packs, and ships 3D-printed goods under a seller's own brand from a 100+ Bambu Lab printer farm.
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Printers
Prusa Ships the First INDX Founder's Edition Units — And Firmware 6.6.1 Fixes the Growing Pains
Bondtech has begun shipping Founder's Edition INDX toolchangers as Prusa's 6.6.1 firmware squashes early bugs, setting up a direct price-and-waste showdown with Bambu Lab's H2C.
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Materials
UCLA Team 3D Prints a Zinc-Ion Battery Electrode on a Desktop Resin Printer, Storing 7x the Charge
UCLA chemists turned an Elegoo Mars 3 Pro lattice print into a carbon-vanadium oxide electrode that stores 7x the charge of comparable devices and holds 82% capacity after 1,500 cycles.
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Materials
SUNLU's New AMS Lite Heater Adds Active Drying to Bambu Lab's Budget AMS — While You Print
SUNLU's $129.99 AMS Lite Heater bolts active, in-print filament drying (up to 70°C) and humidity monitoring onto Bambu Lab's AMS Lite, launching July 20, 2026.
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Printers
Prusa's INDX Multi-Material System Starts Shipping: 30x Less Waste Than Rivals
Bondtech has begun shipping Prusa's INDX Founder's Edition toolchanger upgrade, which Prusa says cuts multi-color purge waste roughly 30x versus rival systems while supporting eight tools and a CMYKW+RGB workflow.
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Printers
SUNLU's New AMS Lite Heater Lets Bambu Lab Printers Dry and Print at the Same Time
SUNLU's $129.99 AMS Lite Heater adds active 70°C drying to Bambu Lab's AMS Lite, letting filament dry and print simultaneously — a fix timed to the company's 13th anniversary and U.S. factory expansion.
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Software
OrcaSlicer 2.4.1 Lands With Native Windows ARM64 Build and a Skirt-Generation Fix
OrcaSlicer 2.4.1 ships a native Windows ARM64 build for Snapdragon X Elite laptops, fixes a 2.4.0 bug that reprinted skirts during sequential printing, and adds Snapmaker U1 and Elegoo Centauri 2 profiles.
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Industry
Where 3D Printing Actually Works in Audio: Materials Science Over Hype
From SLA resin clarinet mouthpieces to carbon-fiber guitar headstocks, additive manufacturing has carved out real niches in acoustic applications, but the physics of sound reveals exactly where FDM layer lines become liabilities.
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Guides
Snap Fit Design for 3D Printing: Deflection Math, Tolerances, and Material Tradeoffs
Cantilever and annular snap fits are deceptively simple mechanisms that FDM printers struggle to reproduce reliably. Here is the geometry, deflection math, clearance strategy, and material selection logic to get them right on the first print.
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Software
Bambu Studio 2.6.1 Solves the Spool Guessing Game with RFID-Backed Filament Tracking
The 2.6.1 beta release brings a Filament Manager that tracks remaining spool weight via extrusion calculations, syncs across devices through Bambu Cloud, and adds substantial hardware support for the H2C and H2D Pro machines.
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Software
OrcaSlicer vs. Bambu Studio vs. PrusaSlicer: Which Slicer Actually Wins in 2026?
The slicer landscape in 2026 has fragmented along clear lines: ecosystem loyalty, calibration depth, and hardware compatibility each favor a different tool, and the right answer depends almost entirely on what you are printing on.
