The rumors are true: Stratasys, Ltd. (NASDAQ:SSYS) really is buying MakerBot. The move is Stratasys’ second huge consolidation in the past year, and appears to be the second-largest, 3-D printing ...

I’ve written extensively on this epochal shift, noting especially that MakerBot has already begun displacing “professional” 3-D printers (the mainframes of the industry) at some key Stratasys, Ltd.