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Slicers, firmware, and the open-source toolchain — release notes translated into settings you can actually use.
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Prusa Ships Firmware 6.10.3 for XL+ and 6.9.1 for CORE One INDX
Prusa's September 25 firmware releases refine XL+ chamber-temperature estimation and revert a bed-lowering regression, while the CORE One INDX gains a standalone gantry-squareness check and a homing reliability fix.
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Belgian Startup Kubuz Launches 3dSynth, a Free Browser Tool That Skips the Slicer for Vase and Spiral Prints
Kubuz's free browser tool 3dSynth generates G-code directly for vase-mode, spiral and generative FDM prints, bypassing the slicer entirely while still exporting STL when a traditional slicer is needed.
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Bambu Studio 2.8.4 Beta Adds a Warning for Skipped Shrinkage Compensation 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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PrusaSlicer 3.0 Development Continues: Alpha12 Fixes Crashes, Adds Per-Tool Settings
Prusa Research's second public alpha of the ground-up PrusaSlicer 3.0 rebuild squashes the most common alpha11 crashes and adds per-extruder overrides, a camera toggle, and safer 3MF re-imports.
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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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Hi3D Ships an AI Agent That Preps Models for Multicolor 3D Printing
Hi3D's new conversational Agent chains its 2048-cubed-voxel V3.0 model through generation, texturing, part-splitting and color-region tools to take a prompt straight to a print-ready, multi-part file.
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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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Snapmaker Orca 2.4.0 Beta: Crash Fixes, High-Flow Hotend Profiles and a Merged Preset List for the U1
Snapmaker's OrcaSlicer fork went from 2.4.0 Alpha to Beta in a week: the Beta adds no features but fixes six issues, two of them crashes, while the Alpha carried high-flow hot end parameters, six new U1 filaments and merged presets.
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Backflip AI Turns 2D Engineering Drawings Into Editable Parametric CAD Inside Fusion
Backflip AI's new Drawing to CAD builds parametric 3D models with editable feature trees from 2D drawings, in Autodesk Fusion and on the web, alongside a multi-photo Photo to CAD tool. The company claims $10 or less and 5-30 minutes versus about $1,500.
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AMCM Bakes PanX Thermal Simulation Directly Into Its EOSPRINT Build Software
AMCM has folded PanOptimization's PanX thermomechanical simulation engine into EOSPRINT itself, letting the software rewrite dwell times, geometry and laser power before a large metal build ever starts.
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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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Snapmaker Pulls Back the Curtain on Space, Its New Model Marketplace, at Formnext Asia Shenzhen
At its Formnext Asia Shenzhen booth, Snapmaker confirmed Snapmaker Space — a curated model platform built around the U1's color-mixing tech — has entered closed beta with 1,000+ ready-to-print designs and a Meshy AI partnership.
