Additive fabrication system maker, Stratasys, Inc., (NASDAQ: SSYS), today announced it has delivered its first shipments of HP-branded 3D printers.
Stratasys and HP co-developed the exclusive 3D printer systems, which are being manufactured by Stratasys as part of a global manufacturing agreement with HP (NYSE: HPQ), as announced in January.
HP launched its Designjet 3D products in [...]
Three-dimensional printing may sound like stuff from a sci-fi movie, but so did airplanes and cars when they were first mentioned in history. Today, 3D printers are as widespread as those cars (with bicycle wheels) of old, but they are, in fact, real and are not mere specks from a Harry Potter world.
3D printing technology, [...]
When WebProNews hit Vegas for the CES 2010 conference, we came across a number of new and interesting gadgets.
The MakerBot’s CupCake CNC is a 3D printer/fabricator that can make just about anything you want. As long as the object you desire can be made out of ABS plastic and stays in a size range of [...]
A company called Invetech has created what looks to be a human tissue printer that works in a similar way to how 3D printers work. The system is capable of building up human organs cell by cell to create scaffolds that liver cells could be placed on.
Regular 3D printers use plastic that is built up [...]
The AICT 3D printer works with 3D data files in VRML or STL (stereolithograph) format. These files can be created with popular commercial programs like AutoCAD or Rhino3D, or with free, open-source software like Blender or Wings 3D. (AICT’s resident 3D printing technician and visualization specialist Chris Want is a volunteer developer on the Blender [...]