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3D Printing Industry ran six practical modeling tests on Meshy AI's text/image-to-3D generator and found fast, printable-after-repair output undercut by bloated polygon counts and a 2.918mm calibration-cube error.
Read the story →QuesTek's new Niobium Suite drops an ARPA-E-built CALPHAD database for C-103 and next-gen niobium superalloys into its cloud ICMD platform, built with CBMM and aimed at the engineers qualifying refractory parts for jet engines, in-space thrusters and metal AM.
Prusa Research's alpha11 build tears up PrusaSlicer's decade-old codebase for multi-bed projects, a Lua plugin system, and a fully offline mode built for firewalled shops — but SLA slicing and third-party profiles aren't in yet.
German metal-AM service provider Additive Willmann is deploying amsight's quality-management software to link powder, process, and inspection data at the part level as it scales from project work to serial production.
Prusa Research dropped a ground-up alpha rewrite of PrusaSlicer on Sept 1 — new UI, unlimited multi-printer beds, YAML profiles, and a sandboxed Lua plugin system — but it's Prusa-only and not production-ready yet.
Phase3D named Phillips Federal its exclusive North American defense channel partner, aiming to get real-time in-situ inspection software into Navy depots, bases and labs like Danville's Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence.
German developer Robert Schneider's Solidon3D lets makers add holes, thicken walls, and resize downloaded STLs without learning CAD, and runs fully offline with a free demo through October 2026.
A new open-source database and calculator models 64 hot ends against 36 polymers to estimate real maximum flow rates, aiming to replace manufacturers' rosy speed claims with physics.
Stratasys' GrabCAD Print 1.117 is now generally available, adding official SAF PA12 – Powered by Evonik support for H350 printers, a transparent viewer mode, offline licensing, and updated CAD import compatibility.
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.
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.
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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