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Following this week’s closing of the Ultimaker/MakerBot merger, the combined company is announcing a new name. The entity will be known as [drumroll please] UltiMaker. As far as merged names…

As 3D printing merger closes, MakerBot CEO steps up and Ultimaker CEO steps down

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Desktop 3D printing firms MakerBot and Ultimaker this morning announced plans to merge. The new single company will be backed by NPM Capital and MakerBot-owner Stratasys and co-led by existing…

MakerBot and Ultimaker are merging

It’s been more than three years since Ultimaker released its last major 3D printer upgrade. Sure, the Dutch company has offered up a couple of iterations on the theme, including…

Ultimaker’s latest 3D printer features dual extruders and active bed leveling

This is one solution to the problem of 3D printer portability –though, it’s not particularly elegant, as far as such things go. Ultimaker 2 Go backpack is, quite literally, the device’s…

Here’s a backpack for carrying around a 3D printer

Pulling a 3D print out of your printer is usually a process fraught with conflict. Who will do it? Can you hire someone? Why does it have to be so…

Fleks3D Lets You Pull Your 3D Prints Out Of Your Printer With A Quickness

Is the 3D modeling space big enough for multiple competitors? Martijn Elserman, Siert Wijnia and Erik de Bruijn sure think so. They’re the founders of a new 3D object sharing…

YouMagine Brings Some Heat To The Free 3D Model Space