E3D Online, an award-winning 3D printer components OEM, has released its latest dual-drive extrusion system, Hemera. The product was initially called Hermes, but changed after intervention from a company already using the name. The system incorporates the company’s V6 hotend with a new filament drive designed to process flexible filaments at 50mm/s. “Hemera has been a […]
Submit your multi-material print models for E3D’s ToolChanger design competition
Award winning British OEM E3D Online is running a design competition for its ToolChanger technology. Makers are encouraged to submit STL design models to demonstrate the multi-material capabilities of the E3D’s ToolChanger technology. The winning models will be printed by E3D at upcoming trade shows, including the Midwest RepRap Festival (MRRF) 2019 and Rapid + […]
3D Printing News Sliced: Desktop Metal, Sigma Labs, Open Bionics, Cincinnati Incorporated
In this edition of Sliced, the 3D Printing Industry news digest, additive manufacturing enables the creation of the Bionic Girl, China reveals plans to build a solar power station in space with 3D printing technology and the longest 3D printed pedestrian bridge pays homage to ancient Chinese Architecture. Also, the latest updates from Open Bionics, Desktop Metal, […]
E3D Skunkworks releases Pathio, a new slicer for FDM/FFF 3D printing
Award winning OEM E3D Online has released its skunkworks slicer Pathio for FDM/FFF 3D printer. A first for the UK-based company that typically makes hotends, Pathio is, “A totally new core slicing engine that ‘does things right’ from the outset, built around a 3D first approach and a solid understanding of how extrusion-based 3D printing works […]
LulzBot releases 3D Aerostruder Micro Tool Head for “penny-scale” 3D printed parts
Aleph Objects, the Colorado-based manufacturer of the LulzBot range of desktop 3D Printers, has unveiled a new, high-precision tool head at SIGGRAPH 2018 in Vancouver – the LulzBot Aerostruder v2 Micro. With the ability to 3D print penny-scale parts, the LulzBot Aerostruder v2 Micro tool head can be used with both flexible and rigid filament for […]
E3D Online and Victrex develop new PAEK material for additive manufacturing
UK-based E3D Online, an award-winning 3D printing technology developer and marketplace, and Victrex, a Lancashire-based manufacturer of high-performance polymers, have successfully created a formulation of polyaryletherketone (PAEK) filament for “lightly modified consumer” desktop FFF/FDM 3D printers. Regarded as an advanced thermoplastic, PAEK is traditionally used in injection molding and extrusion manufacturing processes. However, with its unique […]