One of the continuing struggles with FDM printing is making sure that parts that should fit together actually do. While adding significant tolerance between parts is an option, often you want to have ...

Historically, remote control aircraft were produced much like their early full-sized counterparts. Wooden structures were covered with adhesives and taut fabric membranes. Other techniques later came ...

Printing multipart assemblies is one of the most satisfying tests of 3D printer accuracy. The goal is to create pieces that ...

Lattice structures are networks of interconnected nodes arranged in repeating or gradually varying patterns called cells.

See some of the production parts now produced by 3D printing. How Ford and Nissan are using 3D printing as part of their sustainability strategy. Learn how 3D printing is being used to produce ...

Murray Leinster’s short story Things Pass By, published in 1945, includes what may be the first description of 3D printers: But this constructor is both efficient and flexible. I feed magnetronic ...

It sounds like something from a science fiction plot: so-called three-dimensional printers are being used to fashion prosthetic arms and hands, jaw bones, spinal-cord implants — and one day perhaps ...

One thing about airplanes—especially ones that fly from aircraft carriers, where they’re battered by saltwater and tough deck landings—is that they need lots of spare parts that are not always on hand ...

Banner image: Rachel Sharpe holds bags filled with bands for hospital face shields made with 3D printers on the CU Boulder campus. (Credit: Rachel & Lauren Sharpe) As coronavirus cases mount in ...

Study shows how economical 3D printing can really be for more expensive flexible filaments. Michigan University’s Dr. Joshua Pearce does a lot of work on 3D printing. Recently, he published a 20-page ...