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Industry
Bambu Lab Steps Outside 3D Printing With a $2,499 CO2 Laser
Bambu Lab opened pre-orders for the R1, a 55W CO2 laser cutter/engraver starting at $2,499, its first standalone product outside 3D printing and a direct shot at xTool and Glowforge.
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Software
Bambu Studio 2.8.4 Beta Fixes a Shrinkage-Compensation Trap on Painted Models
Bambu Studio V2.8.4 Public Beta adds a warning for silently-skipped shrinkage compensation on painted models, tightens infill pathing, and patches a stack buffer overflow in its STL-reading code.
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Guides
Prusa's INDX Toolchanger Earns Editor's Choice: Nearly Waste-Free 8-Color Printing at $2,249
Tom's Hardware gave the Prusa CORE One+ INDX a 4.5/5 Editor's Choice, praising a wiper-based toolchanger that purges just ~13mg of filament per color swap — no prime tower required — for $2,249.
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Printers
Bambu Lab Launches R1, Its First Non-Printer Product: A Self-Aligning 55W CO2 Laser
Bambu Lab's first product outside 3D printing is a $2,499 CO2 laser that auto-aligns its optical path in about a minute instead of the usual thermal-paper mirror ritual.
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Software
Snapmaker Space Opens to Everyone: A Validated Model Platform Built Around the U1
Snapmaker Space exits beta with 2,500+ test-printed, U1-tuned models and a creator-rewards system, staking out ground against Bambu Lab's own repository.
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Guides
Tom's Hardware Tests the Prusa CORE One+ INDX: A Waste-Free Toolchanger
Tom's Hardware's hands-on review of the Prusa/Bondtech INDX toolchanger on the CORE One+ Gen 2 finds induction-heated, purge-tower-free 8-color printing at Core-XY speed — for a real-world $2,249.
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Business
Texas Jury Hits Bambu Lab With $27.6M Verdict in Stratasys Patent Fight
A Texas jury found Bambu Lab's X1, P1 and A1 printers willfully infringed four Stratasys patents on prime-tower purging and bed leveling, awarding $27.6 million — with a second, potentially bigger trial still to come.
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Software
trinckle Takes Its No-CAD 'Additive App Suite' Out of Beta, Live Worldwide
After an open beta inside Stratasys's GrabCAD Print, trinckle's 12-app, no-CAD Additive App Suite is now live worldwide and works with any printer, not just Stratasys machines.
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Business
Jury Finds Bambu Lab Willfully Infringed Four Stratasys Patents, Awards $27.6 Million
An East Texas jury found four Bambu Lab entities willfully infringed four Stratasys FDM patents and awarded about $27.6M in past damages; Bambu will seek post-trial review and appeal, and the second suit has no trial date.
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Software
Software Engineer 'Vibe Codes' a System That Lets Him Throw 3D Models From VR to His Printer
A software engineer wired a Meta Quest 3 to a Bambu Lab P2S so he can physically throw a 3D model across the room and watch the printer start the job, using Bambu's local API and AI-assisted "vibe coding."
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Software
Meshy 7.1 Doubles Geometry Resolution to 4096³, Claims the Industry's Most Detailed AI-Generated Meshes
A day after reviewers put Meshy 7 through its FDM paces, Meshy 7.1 quietly doubled voxel resolution to 4096³ and rolled out a self-authored benchmark claiming a clean sweep over Rodin 2.5 and Hi3D 3.0.
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Software
One Year Into Its Security Overhaul, Bambu Lab Adds ISO Certifications and a Public Vulnerability Log
Bambu Lab is marking a year of security work with ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and TRUSTe certifications, a growing bug bounty program, and a new public Security Update portal for tracking fixes.
