Applications
From Robot Covers to Footwear: HeyGears Customers Report Batch-Production Gains
Four customer accounts show resin printing moving into repeat orders, with reported gains in delivery time, footwear output and lattice-cushion production.

Applications
IOT Brings Light-Printed Personalized Progressive Lenses to Consumers
Light-Form uses a single exposure to form a lens in seconds, but resin recovery, surface treatment and optical mapping remain part of the production workflow.

Hardware
Creality Announces $849 K3 U.S. Launch as Store Still Lists Preorders
The four-nozzle printer moves into a new U.S. launch phase, but Creality’s store still shows an early-December shipping estimate. Nozzle-switch time and total material-change time are listed separately.

News
Velo3D Discloses Five-Year Sandia Research Framework for Metal Additive Manufacturing
The November 3 announcement describes an agreement signed in January, with individual projects to be defined separately and repeatable production among the proposed research priorities.

Applications
Orbital Matter Reports a Half-Meter Beam Printed in Orbit
Replicator-2’s reported rigid-boom demonstration advances in-space manufacturing, while larger solar-array structures remain a development goal.

Software
Meshy Edit Faces a Practical Test: Local Changes Still Need Mesh Inspection
A November 4 hands-on review finds that targeted AI edits can preserve much of a model, while difficult removals and unintended geometry changes remain concerns for printing.

Software
Tripo AI Launches a Visual Workspace for Reusable 3D Workflows
Tripo Agentic Canvas links model generation, refinement and export in a visual workflow that users can inspect and reuse.

News
TCT Sets 2027 Dates for Shanghai and Shenzhen Additive Manufacturing Shows
TCT Asia will move to five halls in Shanghai on May 27–29, while TCT Shenzhen will return to Futian on August 12–14 with a focus on South China’s manufacturing industries.

Applications
PharmaTher Plans 3D-Printed Peptide Tablets for Colon Delivery
The October 29 development plan starts with oral KPV and BPC-157. Craft Health’s printed core-and-shell design draws on laboratory research with budesonide.

News
Protolabs Expands HP Jet Fusion 5600 Capacity by 50%
Protolabs links the expansion to demand from aerospace, defense and drone manufacturers. The company reported more than 40% year-over-year growth in U.S. Multi Jet Fusion revenue through the third quarter of 2026.

Applications
ScaffoldForge Generates Bone-Scaffold Designs in 12 Seconds—With Physical Validation Still Ahead
An October 28 PLOS One study reports rapid AI-generated scaffold geometry and promising computational benchmarks. 3DPTimes examines the design advance, its limited dataset and the manufacturing evidence still needed.

News
Creality’s U.S. Retail Push: Why Distribution Is Becoming a 3D Printing Battleground
A wider store presence brings desktop 3D printing closer to new buyers. 3DPTimes examines Creality’s retail strategy, the historical data behind its online channels and the service economics that will determine lasting value.

Hardware
Bambu Lab H3C: What Nine Tools Change in Multi-Material Printing
Launched November 3, the H3C combines nine ready-to-use tools, dual-diameter filament feeding and integrated material management. 3DPTimes examines the engineering benefits and the tests that will determine practical value.

News
Registration Opens for 2026 Additive Manufacturing Conference in Luzhou
The November 25–27 conference will connect policy, research and industrial applications in Sichuan. Registration is requested before November 22, with a related exhibition running November 26–28.

Materials
RMIT Turns Coffee Waste into 3D-Printed Architectural Forms
The Waste to Form research project combines spent coffee grounds with architectural design. Its full-scale demonstrator explores circular materials, while building performance and end-of-life claims still need quantified validation.

Applications
NASA’s Second CHAPEA Crew Completes 378 Days in a 3D-Printed Mars Habitat
Four volunteers left Mars Dune Alpha on October 31 after a 378-day simulation. The Houston habitat puts additive construction into the context of daily life and long-duration mission research.

News
EOS and Brazil's BIZU Space Partner on Additive Design Skills for Space Propulsion
EOS and BIZU Space’s October 29 partnership centers on DfAM training and engineering support. 3DPTimes examines the engineering milestones that would demonstrate progress toward verified propulsion hardware.

Applications
142,000 Printed Expressions: Inside LAIKA’s Wildwood Production Pipeline
Fraunhofer IGD’s October 22 technical account links Cuttlefish software, Stratasys printers and hand-crafted animation in LAIKA’s feature production.

Applications
Eight-Meter 3D-Printed Horns Bring Digital Fabrication into Tate Modern’s Soundscape
Fab.Pub’s account of Tarek Atoui’s installation reveals a coordinated project involving printed horns, bamboo composites and multiple fabrication systems.

News
Tronix3D Plans Nearly $4 Million Pittsburgh Expansion and 47 New Jobs
The October 30 expansion announcement more than triples planned production space; hiring and capacity gains remain targets to be delivered.







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