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3D Printing Veteran Fried Vancrean Retires as Materialise CEO

Fried Vancrean is a luminary in the 3D printing world. After three decades leading Materialise (Nasdaq: MTLS), we had the privilege of interviewing him and featuring him not once but…

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Materialise at RAPID: The Digital Thread is the Holy Grail of Manufacturing

At the 2023 RAPID + TCT event in Chicago, Materialise announced the latest release of its powerful data and build preparation Magics software. The manufacturing workflow is connected by the…

Materialise Releases Software Module for Dental 3D Printing

Materialise (Nasdaq: MTLS) is already the established leader in 3D printing software. Now, it’s taking the interesting course of developing software for select industries. The latest is the newly announced…

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What Makes Materialise So Good? And Where Is It Weak?

Materialise (Nasdaq: MTLS) is a thirty-year-old Belgian, now public, 3D printing software and service company. Since inception, it has been lead by Fried Vancraen, a brilliant scientist-turned-entrepreneur who has instilled…

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3DTrust Releases Intelligent Powder Management Solution for Quality Control

3DTrust is a five-year-old startup that began in Munich. In the beginning, the team was one of a crop of startups that wanted to secure the digital supply chain. Through…

Interview with Fried Vancraen on 30 Years in 3D Printing

Being such a young industry, we have only a few giants. One of them is Fried Vancrean. The soft-spoken Fried started as a research scientist before starting Materialise over thirty…

Interview with Alexandre Donnadieu-Deray of 3YOURMIND

Alexandre Donnadieu-Deray is the Managing Director of the company 3YOURMIND. 3YOURMIND provides software to manage and optimize your end-to-end Additive Manufacturing workflows. There organization gives an interesting value proposition to their end users. They sit in between technical expertise as well as customer service.

Inside 3D Printing Seoul 2019 Day Two

After enjoying the excellent restaurants and nightlife of buzzing Seoul we reconvened for day two of Inside 3D Printing Seoul. After opening remarks by Smartech’s Kirsten Mulherin, Dr. Behrang Poorganji…

Creatz3D Medical Service Bureau To Offer Medical 3D Printed Models

We’ve written about the enterprising Singapore based Creatz3D before. They made a robot arm, we interviewed them on their expansion in the region and we’ve mentioned their work in News…

Materialise Introduces Automatic Support Generation and More with Magics 23

Tomorrow begins formnext, one of the biggest 3D printing-related trade shows in the world. Taking place in Frankfurt, Germany, the show runs from November 13th to 16th, but the new…

3D Printed Gnome Launches into the Stratosphere to Celebrate 100 Years of Polish Independence

My hometown mascot is the panther…or at least it’s the mascot for all of our sports teams. After each touchdown the high school football team scores, you’ll hear a panther snarl…

3D Printing News Briefs: October 13, 2017

It’s Friday the 13th – instead of walking under ladders, breaking mirrors, or generally going outside at all, it’s probably safest to stay in and read today’s edition of 3D…

Materialise Stays Focused on Collaboration, Building the Backbone for 3D Printing; Announces New Partnership

It’s been a busy few months for Belgium-based Materialise — and for those of us working to follow their progress. The company hosted the biennial Materialise World Summit in Brussels…

Materialise Magics21 Introduced to Test Group in Beta Validation Program, Will Be Released to Public in November

In May, Materialise unveiled their new Materialise Magics 3D Printing Suite, a comprehensive suite combining several of their 3D printing-related applications into one integrated solution. The customizable, support-heavy software suite can be…

MythBusters Builds Life-Size Homer Simpson Thanks to Materialise’s 3D Software

One of the most iconic moments from 2007’s The Simpsons Movie had the titular family’s home in danger of being destroyed with a wrecking ball until Homer selflessly jumps on…

Materialise’s 3D Printed Slot Car Championships at RAPID 2014

As SME’s RAPID conference headed for its home stretch, so did a slew of 3D printed slot cars on the exhibition floor. The 2014 3D Printed Slot Car Championship, sponsored…