A new online service has emerged that hopes to guide 3D printer operators to better printing parameters: 3DOptimizer. FabControl SIA, the producers of 3DOptimizer, seems to be a spinoff from well-known 3D printer manufacturer Mass Portal. Their claim to fame was being able to achieve 3D prints of astonishing quality, so there’s definitely skill present. In fact, one of the founders and former CEO of Mass Portal, Janis Grinhofs, is now running FabControl SIA. Optimizing 3D Prints Getting the best print is a quest known by any 3D printer operator, and it is usually a tedious affair. Benchmark 3D prints are produced iteratively, each time tweaking this or that setting.…

If you awoke from a dream this morning with P’s written in Sharpie all across your torso, there’s a reason. Lenovo has announced the next generation of the ThinkPad P Series laptops bringing a whole host of upgrades to the ThinkPad family. Altogether there are five laptops in the mix and while they all hit different needs, you’ll likely be most interested in the 3D pro-focused updates for the P15 and P17. 10th Gen Intel + Ultra Performance Mode Leading the features for the entire P Series line is the new Ultra Performance Mode (enabled in the BIOS) that brings you more control over performance settings, shifting VPU and GPU…

We’ve all been there before: your package arrives in the mail and you have nothing to open it with. It’s times like these we reach for the closest sharp object in the vicinity: a pair of scissors, a letter opener, an untrimmed fingernail. In my case? You guessed it. A Swiss Army knife. However, the Dagr is definitely one to add to the EDC list. Made by Calvin Laituri, a father and son design team, this tiny knife can be easily carried for those impromptu cutting ceremonies. The Dagr has two distinct modes: one being screwed on and totally safe, the other being unscrewed and sharper than a politician’s tongue…

When Siemens Software announced their adaptive UI for NX, we knew there were good things ahead for NX users. Well, this week at #SiemensMAC2020, @siemenssoftware introduced #SketchNX, a new (and I would say the first) adaptive, inference-driven, selection-aware sketch solver that continuously evaluates the sketch. Over the last several weeks, I’ve had the chance to use the next version of NX with the new sketch solver. After moving from “this is just plain ol’ CAD sketchin’ business as usual…” to “well, that’s new…” to “whoa… WHOA,” I realized it was more than the usual sketching. In a word, it’s game-changing for 3D data import, sketch edits, and dimensioning. The best…

Unlike skateboarding, rollerblading, or cycling, the art of surfing relies heavily on… ya know, water, and waves in the water. No waves = no surf. But what if you didn’t need to wait for the high tide to kick in? What if you could just ride your board whenever you wanted to? The Waterwolf is an electric surfboard with its own propulsion system. Located at the rear of the board, it’s a relatively quiet propeller drive craft with a max speed of 16-19 mph (25-30km/h) and easy maneuverability to generally live out your surfing fantasies. The initial premise was to make a surfboard which could help surfers catch waves more…

If you’ve been holding out for a high(er)-end GPU option before taking a Macbook Pro plung, AMD and Apple have announced the option you’ve been waiting for. As of today, you have the option to choose the new 7nm AMD Radeon Pro 5600M and add +$700.00 to the 16-inch Mackbook Pro base price of $2,799.00. The new Radeon Pro 5600M houses 8 GB HBM2 memory while you were previously limited to maxing out on the 5500M with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory (for a +$100 addition). The difference? The GDDR6 memory clocks in with a bandwidth of 196 GB/s while the HBM2 memory nearly doubles it with a reported bandwidth…