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Shenzhen's Snapmaker closed a ¥1 billion (~€129M/$140M) Series C on July 8, 2026, led by Cathay Capital, in what the company calls the largest consumer 3D-printing funding round in two years.
Read the story →Formnext Asia Shenzhen's August 2026 edition gets a hands-on Maker Day with factory tours and an open-mic forum, plus a formal matchmaking program pairing overseas distributors with Chinese 3D printing giants like Bambu Lab, Creality, and Elegoo.
OrcaSlicer 2.4.2, released July 7, 2026, repairs presets broken by renamed printer/filament profiles, stops cloud sync from silently re-enabling disabled filament overrides, and squashes several crash bugs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Saturn 4 Ultra combines a 12K mono LCD with a 218×122×260mm build volume and a tilt-release mechanism. It's currently the best large-resin value proposition on the market.
Lychee and Chitubox dominate resin print preparation, but they've diverged significantly in features, business model, and file support. Here's how they compare for MSLA and DLP users in mid-2026.
Large-format MSLA printers can print the whole torso of a costume prop or a full helmet in one shot, but big build plates introduce challenges that compact printers don't have. Here's what to expect.
Bambu, Creality, Elegoo, and Anycubic together now sell the majority of desktop 3D printers worldwide. This is how Chinese manufacturers built that dominance, what it means for western competitors, and what comes next.
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