How can you do 3D design in a desert? How can you improve your 3D prints with a little water? How can 3D printing help bring clean drinking water to 41% of Kenya’s population currently without it?
该版本的3D印刷新闻切成薄片的故事具有Google，Siemens，Re：3D，Stratasys，SLM Solutions，Ether，Antert，Maryland，UNC-Chapel Hill，Regenovo，Regenovo，Goproto，Trimech，Geo Kingsbury，Geo Kingsbury，Joseph Desimone，Bigrep，Bigrep，Bigrep，Thought3d，碳，超红色技术，Grohe，AddUp,和Westfall Manufacturing。
Bioprinting gets a boost
A. James Clark Hall, home to theUniversity of Maryland生物工程部已向学生开放。这座184,000平方英尺的建筑将是生物印刷设施以及一个用于原型制作和制造的3D打印实验室。
Ether是一家位于旧金山的生物材料和生物印刷公司University of California的QB3 Life Sciences孵化器。以太将使用居住地加速其“迅速扩展的破坏性技术套件”，包括Aether 1 multitool bioprinter.
Regenovo，由研究人员成立的组织工程公司杭州戴安齐大学in China, has launched its latest bioprinter, the Bio-architect X. The 3D printer is capable of manufacturing tissue and cartilage material and will play a part in the testing of new drugs.
跨业务的认证和表彰
快速原型和定制3D打印公司GoProto，圣地亚哥已获得国际武器法规（ITAR）认证，这将允许其进行政府，军事和航空航天项目。
TriMech, a reseller of Stratasys 3D printers and SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software has been given the “Stratasys Top Reseller in the Americas” award.
German metal 3D printing company SLM Solutions has been selected as a growth champion for the third year running by data analysis firm Statista. SLM Solutions claimed the accolade for ranking among the top 500 German companies with the highest revenue growth from 2013 to 2016.
Geo Kingsbury, a UK based distributor of metal cutting systems, is to add 3D printers to its portfolio. The company is currently the exclusive UK distributor for添加，金属3D打印机制造商formed by Michelin and the Fives industrial engineering group.
Intellectual Property and Virtual Reality
Clip 3D打印公司Carbon的联合创始人Joe Desimone与研究人员合作，与研究人员合作UNC教堂山,杜克大学和theUniversity of California.与3D纳米寄存过程相反两光刻光刻, the technology prints a freestanding structure using a pre-fabricated template. The patent for the process was recently published online and can be在这里查看。
Google Blocks，一个3D软件，允许用户在VR中创建对象，并启动了一个更新，该更新具有新的背景环境（包括晚上的沙漠），改进的捕捉功能和一系列实验性Google Labsfeatures in response to user requests.
大打印机，印刷头和杂物盒
Bigrep和thows3dare collaborating to bring Magigoo 3D printing smart adhesive to large-format 3D printer market.
Inert是惰性气体壳体（手套箱），气体管理系统和溶剂纯化系统的制造商，已与西门子合作，并添加了模拟S7-1200可编程逻辑控制器（PLC）和模拟人机界面（HMI）颜色面板惰性purelab He 4GB 2500手套箱。
And UK inventor Brian Eaglestone has launched aKickstarter campaignfor a water-cooled hot-end that can提高某些印刷作业的质量。冷却设备已完全原型，一旦达到Kickstarter目标，现在就可以生产。
3D打印和水管理
卫生配件制造商格罗is introducing 3D printing to its manufacturing process and will begin using test prints in upcoming projects. Prototypes for Grohe’s earlier flushing system were 3D printed with Stratasys FDM technology, and reduced product development time by 50%.
基于罗德岛Westfall Manufacturing通过3D打印专利的尼龙插入物并将其连接到管道上，制造了一系列小型静态混合器。静态搅拌机将用于水，油，天然气，天然气，丙烷和生物燃料加工。
Finally,超红色技术, a 3D printing service bureau based in Nairobi, Kenya and a partner ofRe:3D3D打印了一个太阳能的淡化装置，以便为估计有41％的肯尼亚人提供可靠，干净的饮用水。
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Featured image shows a 3D printed lithograph from Nairobi’s Ultra Red Technologies. Photo via Ultra Red Technologies.
