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Plastometrex Will Let You Queue Hundreds of Unattended Mechanical Property Tests Starting Q4 2026
Plastometrex's new PLX-AutoStage module automates non-destructive PIP testing to within 2.6% of tensile-test accuracy, letting aerospace and defense customers qualify AM parts by the hundred without babysitting a test rig.
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Ex-Markforged Founders Launch Backflip AI's CAD Copilot, Turning 3D Scans Into Editable Models
Backflip AI, founded by former Markforged leaders Greg Mark and David Benhaim, has launched CAD Copilot, an AI tool that turns 3D scans into fully editable, parametric CAD models — and claims it cuts part-digitizing costs from $1,500 to about $10.
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Hackers Repurpose Open-Source Thingino Camera Firmware for DIY Prusa 3D Printer Monitoring
A maker hunting for a cheap webcam turned to Thingino, open-source Linux firmware for budget Ingenic-chipset IP cameras, and scripted his own bridge into Prusa's remote monitoring API before official camera support ships.
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RWTH Aachen's DAP Institute Open-Sources a Geometry Library to Cut AM Software Memory and Processing Time
DAP-CG, a free C# geometry library from RWTH Aachen's DAP Institute, cut nesting memory use fivefold in production AM software and is now open to any CAM developer under the Boost license.
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3iD Printing Automates Post-Processing With AM-Flow's Feed-Vision-Sort Line in Belgium
Belgian service bureau 3iD Printing has installed AM-Flow's label-free machine-vision sorting line to eliminate the manual post-processing bottleneck as order volumes scale.
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Scan-to-CAD in Hours: Hexagon Pairs the ATLASCAN Pro With Geomagic Design X for Aircraft MRO
Hexagon linked its ATLASCAN Pro handheld scanner with Geomagic Design X, claiming CAD rebuilds of obsolete aircraft parts up to 8x faster — aimed squarely at aerospace MRO teams recreating cabin and structural components for 3D printing.
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OrcaSlicer Quietly Grew a Python Plugin System — And Says Outright It Isn't a Sandbox
OrcaSlicer's nightlies now carry a capability-based Python plugin architecture with an embedded `orca` module, a CPython audit hook and a new per-plugin storage API in draft PR #14923 — and the official docs call the security layer "groundwork, not a hardened sandbox."
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Someone Reverse-Engineered Prusa's INDX Into Real CAD — and It Says a Lot About the Open Community License
A GitHub repo has reconstructed parametric CAD for Prusa's INDX toolchanger from Prusa's own printable mesh and published it as CC BY-SA 4.0 — a share-alike claim that runs straight into the Open Community License, which says any distributed derivative stays under OCL.
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Every 3D Printer Has a 'Personality': New AI Profiles Machine-to-Machine Variation
IMDEA Materials and Berkeley Lab built an algorithm that profiles the operational "personality" of nominally identical 3D printers, then decides whether to optimize them jointly or individually — cutting part-weight errors and speeding convergence across three theoretically identical machines.
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Meshy's $400M Series B Makes It the Best-Funded Company in Generative 3D — Here's What It Means for Makers
Meshy closed a $400M Series B on July 20, 2026 — which it calls the largest round ever in 3D generative AI — behind text- and photo-to-3D tools that export print-ready STL, OBJ, GLB and FBX files straight to your slicer.
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CNC Kitchen's PrusaPATuner Turns Your Bed-Leveling Load Cell Into a Pressure Advance Calibrator
Stefan of CNC Kitchen has released PrusaPATuner, an experimental AGPL-3.0 tool that auto-calibrates pressure advance on Prusa printers by repurposing the nozzle load cell as a back-pressure sensor — no extra hardware, no test prints, no squinting at a calibration tower.
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Bambu Studio 2.8.1 Public Beta Adds Automatic Color Decomposition and E3D High-Flow Nozzle Support
Bambu Studio's new public beta can auto-break any target color into an optimal filament mix, sharpens CMYW/RYBW color prediction, and adds official support for E3D's High Flow nozzles.
