3D printing has risen from obscurity to become a mainstream technology in the past decade. Yet, unless you have actually had hands-on experience with the equipment used to achieve it, you might not ...

A new type of "ink" makes it possible to 3D print electrochemically switchable, conducting polymers using a light-based ...

Perhaps the biggest barrier to entry is the sheer volume of jargon you’ll encounter. There’s a whole glossary of 3D printing ...

3D printing is everywhere these days. People use it to make everything from product prototypes to jet engines, and everything in between — but how do 3D printers work, exactly? How do these magical ...

3D printers might have originally been used to create prototypes and product models, but the industry is expanding to produce larger-scale products—and even medical devices. Although 3D printing tends ...

To work toward getting around this issue, researchers used parabolic flights to simulate microgravity conditions, then 3D ...

3D scanning and 3D printing may sound like a natural match for one another, but they don’t always play together as easily and nicely as one would hope. I’ll explain what one can expect by highlighting ...

Cutting edge 3D printing is revolutionizing jaw reconstruction surgery at UPMC Pittsburgh. We met a Fairview man who ...

New GrabCAD Shop Simplifies 3D Printing Workflow So Jobs Get Printed Faster and Right the First Time Enterprise 3D printing shops – within larger design firms, manufacturing enterprises or educational ...

3D printing is changing the way we make things, and by extension the thing that we make. But how exactly does it work, and how is it advancing? Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- 3D printing technology is now 35 years old, but it's constantly growing at lightning speed. "It's pretty much limitless what you can 3D print," says Tyler Pope, and engineer and ...

Print any oddly shaped object with a 3D printer. Also called additive manufacturing or rapid prototyping, 3D printing has many advantages over the more traditional subtractive manufacturing methods, ...