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In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, America Makes announced the winner of its GOTHAAM Project Call. Then it’s all about healthcare 3D printing news, with Stratasys and Limbitless Solutions expanding their partnership, the new Nebraska Center for 3D Innovation focusing on healthcare applications, and Onkos Surgical announcing a major milestone. We’ll finish with hybrid bioprinting of blood capillary networks.

Materialise (Nasdaq: MTLS) grew revenue and profit in the second quarter of 2026, as its Medical business continued to expand and stronger aerospace and defense demand helped its Manufacturing segment return to growth. The Belgian 3D printing company reported second-quarter revenue of €70.1 million ($81.7 million), up 8.1% from €64.8 million ($75.5 million) a year earlier.

Phase3D is demonstrating a unique combination of technical maturation via intensive R&D, and commercialization through broadening its accessibility to potential users. Just last week, the company received an Air Force contract to explore use of its in-situ monitoring (ISM) hardware for ceramic composites. Now, it’s announcing a deal with Phillips Federal, whereby the latter will be the exclusive reseller of Phase3D products to the North American defense market.

03:30 am by Joris Peels 3D PrintingAerospace 3D PrintingMetal 3D PrintingMRO and Spares Maintenance and interiors aircraft giant Lufthansa Technik is exploring 3D printing at greater depths, hoping to take its customers to the heights they’re accustomed to. A team at Lufthansa Technik made a titanium LPBF latch to replace a damaged polymer one. Usually, in 3D printed MRO, we try to go the other way, implementing lighter-weight, cheaper polymer parts in place of metal ones.

Creality (HKG: 3388) sold more products in the first half of 2026, but lower margins and higher spending pushed the consumer 3D printing company into the red. At the same time, the newly public company is preparing another major investment: a new additive manufacturing (AM) headquarters and innovation center in Shenzhen. As 3DPrint.com reported earlier this month, Creality had already warned investors that it expected to post a first-half loss. The final results now show where that loss came from.

If it feels like additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies are finding a place in the mainstream of everyday products and life, it’s because they are. It has been a long road to get here, but today additive technologies are finally in the conversations of engineers and product designers at the earliest planning and design stages of making things.

We’ve long had a passion at 3DPrint.com for Kirigami shapes, be it in the form of bandages, nano fabrication, or sensors. We also wrote a lot about metamaterials and, more recently, about 3D printing on cylinders to add to existing shapes or to create new geometries. So something that combines all of these things is bound to be of interest to us.

One topic that I do my best to stay on top of is the inseparability between rising adoption of metal additive manufacturing (AM) and the growing awareness of a need to build resilience into critical minerals supply chains. The latter clearly represents a much larger scope of activity than the former, but precisely for that reason, metal AM’s primary long-term value ultimately lies in its being situated within the ongoing, global rearrangement of critical minerals supply and demand relationships.

HeyGears was started in 2015 and has been making value-driven Vat Polymerization systems for dental and home use. The company is marketing savvy and very driven. Now the firm has put its G1 printer on Kickstarter. As we put in our Desktop UV printers and 3D printing collide article, the intersection of two very different devices could shake up 3D printing. In June, we said that of all the Desktop UV/desktop 3D printing mash-ups, we were most excited by HeyGears.

We’re kicking things off today with software news, as the new Meshy 7 is now live. Then we’ll move on to business, with ExOne and voxeljet now operating as a single legal entity. We’ll finish with custom 4D printed implants from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Mass General Brigham, and 3D printed guns in Australia.