Slicers, firmware, and the open-source toolchain — release notes translated into settings you can actually use.
HEXOstudios, a local-only Mac app that catalogs and previews 3D files without moving them, has a free 1.1 update that brings it to twelve formats, including Rhino, FreeCAD and glTF, and adds 3D G-code toolpath previews and a Send to Slicer hand-off.
Read the story →Romanian print bureau 3Descu now lets ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and VS Code return FDM and SLA quotes from a public STL or OBJ link through an MCP server. It needs no account or API key, and people still check every file before anything is printed.
OctoPrint's unplanned 2.0.0rc7 fixes a low-severity stored XSS in the new Serial Connector that affects rc1 through rc6, adds support for Prusa Buddy-style firmware, and asks Klipper and Bambu owners to test the new connectors.
Michael Bender's Constructor AI lets you describe a part, answer dimension prompts and get an STL and G-code in the browser, but an early forum tester found the guided flow rigid, and Bender says it is not a finished product.
Neural4D's new Multicolor feature reads a model's PBR texture, uses AI to find color regions, proposes a four-color starting scheme and exports a slicer-ready 3MF. For now it only accepts models generated inside Neural4D.
OrcaSlicer's V2.5.0 Alpha, built from 950+ pull requests by 140+ contributors, adds Python plugins, belt printer profiles, an experimental CAD Design tab, color mixing, texture displacement and parallel IDEX/IQEX printing. It is still an alpha, so back up your profiles first.
After a seven-month trial that added a command-line interface, stop-motion studio LAIKA has signed on to use Additive Appearance's PrismSlicer to preview the color and translucency of full-color PolyJet faces under its own set lighting, before anything is printed.
Additive Industries and Materialise released a Next-Generation Build Processor for MetalFab printers today. In a vendor benchmark it cut pre-processing from 46 minutes to 6, and it gives existing MetalFab machines the MetalFab 420K's scan-strategy controls.
SolidCraft and CADCraft, two open-source CAD tools built largely by AI agents, publish candid self-assessments. SolidCraft's 3MF, STL and STEP export makes it worth a careful look from makers.
Rowan University engineers run digital image correlation backward, from the finished structure through thousands of images, and use concrete's own surface roughness as the tracking pattern to reconstruct how printed walls deform, shrink and cure as they go up.
UltiMaker's Cura 5.14.0-beta.1 lets you paint where supports go, where they don't and where the engine decides, and also makes tabbed settings the default, adds a Windows-on-ARM build and moves to Qt 6.10.
Creallo's free Atlas desktop viewer for Windows, macOS and Linux opens STL, STEP and IGES files without a CAD license, measures and repairs meshes locally, and quotes printing, CNC and casting costs, though so far every claim comes from the company.
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