APC PowerForge with Dell and NVIDIA at DTW 2026

This was just a neat one from Dell Tech World 2026. In the Schneider Electric APC booth, they had the “PowerForge”. This was an AI-powered 3D printing solution that fit into a rack. The idea was simple: a rack with two 3D printers, lots of print material, and a small system for automatically designing and printing physical models. Since it is a holiday weekend, I thought this would be a fun one to share.

APC PowerForge with Dell and NVIDIA at DTW 2026

At the Schneider Electric booth, the company had a rack, but jazzed it up a bit with some RGB lighting and, notably, no servers. Instead of servers, on the top and bottom, there were Bambu Lab H2C 3D printers.

Both printers were actually running at the show. At first I thought they might be making parts for servers, but then I realized I was wrong.

Instead, they were making designs that were built locally.

Running this demo, we have the APC SmartUPS for power, but there was also a Dell Pro Max with GB10.

While we recently did a piece Using the Dell Pro Max with GB10 to Profit within 12 Months, this demonstration was using it for a very different purpose.

Pulling out the Avocent/ Dell KMMLED185 (I think we need one or a few of these for the studio), and connecting to the GB10, we can see the workflow. It is actually using ComfyUI to generate minifigures from text prompts. Then it is using the output to create 3D images and finally sending it to the slicer and printer. This is really neat. Going from text to a 3D-printed object is not exactly groundbreaking, but it is something different from racks of servers. It is also a neat use of the Dell Pro Max with GB10.

In the event you were wondering, the back of the rack was not empty. Instead, there were Bambu Lab AMS2 material feeders for the printers.

These enabled the printers to use more colors and types of filament during the show floor prints.

The net result was that the printers had access to spools of different types to print what came from the ComfyUI text prompt.

Final Words

In a sea of rackmount servers and a quantum computer, this was certainly one way to make a rack stand out at a show like this. Of course, I had to ask about using Bambu Lab versus another printer vendor, given another round of open source troubles there. I got a nod. Still, this was a fun demo to see and a neat 3D-printing setup.