New papers on processes, materials and parts, and the tools that generate 3D models rather than print them.
VoxelMatters tested Meshy 7 on real parts, from a Lamborghini to a broken wall hook, and the company shipped Meshy 7.1's Ultra 4K mode mid-review, before the first round of tests was even finished.
AMAXiMAL's free TopMod 3D v3 runs on iPhone, iPad, browser and inside Rhino 8, pairing a 20-year-old topological mesh kernel with a Claude AI assistant that builds editable geometry from equations.
Tripo AI's new EdenLive renderer turns rough game-engine visuals into detailed 720p video at over 24 fps on a single RTX 5090, and the company has open-sourced the weights.
Romanian manufacturer 3Descu launched an MCP server on October 18, 2026, letting ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and VS Code pull live production quotes from its pricing engine.
MOSS, a Cornell/Imperial College amphibious robot, morphs 3D-printed origami wheels in 1.95 seconds, cutting cost of transport by up to 29% in wet terrain.
IMDEA Materials and UPM printed braided nitinol structures in one step that compress to 50% of diameter with over 90% elastic recovery, for transcatheter devices.
Meshy launched Meshy Edit, letting users select a region of a generated model and rewrite it by text in about a minute for 20 credits, instead of regenerating the whole mesh.
Neural4D's new Multicolor tool auto-detects color regions from a model's PBR texture and builds a 4-color starting scheme, cutting manual setup before slicing.
A UPMC-led team printed patient-specific models for 6 PAVM patients across two HHT centers, and embolization reached technical success in all 8 treated lesions.
A finite element study from Brendan Mackey, Levi Smith and Bosco Yu models three microwave device designs that could extend volumetric additive manufacturing past photopolymer resins to ceramic, metal and composite powders.
Twinkle3D, the geometry model behind Hi3D 3.0, generates watertight meshes at 2048^3 resolution and reports 82.1% recall of inscribed characters at 98.2% precision, against 21.7% recall for the best of four commercial rivals, in a benchmark the paper runs itself.
MTRL at Technion and the Weizmann Tree Lab built BUSTAN, a pavilion of 178 robotically printed earthen bricks around a living olive tree, for Design Museum Holon.
AM Europe, run by CECIMO, surveyed 83 research organizations in 18 countries and found 66 working on metal AM and advanced materials, but flagged uneven access for smaller firms.
Meshy placed No. 31 in a16z's new revenue-ranked Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps report, the only AI 3D company on a list topped by OpenAI, Anthropic and Canva.
Tripo AI's P2.0 generates quad-dominant 3D meshes directly, up to 25,000 faces, which the company says is the first AI 3D model to skip retopology entirely.
Harbin Institute of Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers 3D-printed a cement supercapacitor with interlocking electrodes, reaching 162.14 mF/cm² and surviving 23 MPa compression.
Meshy says its annual recurring revenue passed $100 million in September 2026, up from $1 million less than two years earlier, and released iOS and Android apps built on Meshy 7.
Virginia Tech's Soft Materials and Structures Lab measured 9.9 W/mK thermal conductivity along printed gallium-indium droplets in silicone, about 40 times unfilled PDMS.
MIT and Johns Hopkins researchers built a handheld 3D printed microfluidic device that sheared living cells off human fallopian-tube tissue, then grew them into organoids.
Washington State University used a machine learning model trained on 37 failed prints to find six working parameter sets for GRCop-42, printing it for the first time at 500 watts of laser power.
Constructor AI released a free public browser test that turns typed descriptions into STL files and G-code, letting users skip a parametric CAD interface entirely.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory trained a segmentation model on 13,800 annotated images and matched human filament measurements across 55 test parts, catching a tilted build platform that averaging would have hidden.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory built a 3D-printed lattice bioreactor that turns waste methane into succinate at more than 10 times the rate of liquid-state systems, using less power.
3Dnatives ran nine photos through Meshy 7.1's image-to-3D tool and checked the exported 3MF files, from a clean 385,000-triangle mascot to a watch that split into 35 floating bodies.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scored 95.9% mean voxel IoU on BenchCAD, reconstructing editable CAD code from photos, up from 83.3% for GPT-5.6 Sol and ahead of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1.