Historically, manufacturers and online retail companies have been forced to limit customization options based on quantity and scale. To produce an original design or custom option, manufacturers would ...

If you’re familiar with 3D printing, you’ve undoubtedly seen scale models and prototypes for new products created out of thin air with the aid of these amazing devices. But these days, companies are ...

3D printing is something that most technology and art enthusiasts are interested in, but everyday people don’t need it. This is the widespread notion everyone has about 3D printing these days, but ...

The software that supports additive manufacturing is a vital part of the 3D printing process—arguably as important as the 3D printer itself. Computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering ...

A new open-source tool is reshaping how engineers design multi-material objects. Charles Wade, a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at CU Boulder, has created a design ...

Computer-aided design software lets you design 2-D and 3-D drawings and models, replacing traditional pencil-and-paper drafting to create blueprints with easily altered electronic files. In the ...

B radley Rothenberg, cofounder and CEO of nTopology, is building next generation design software that relies on mathematical computations to create 3D-printed parts and products that are lighter and ...

What Is Slicer Software and How Does it Enable 3D Printing? 3D printing, a type of additive manufacturing, works by creating objects layer-by-layer based on a digital computer-aided design (CAD) model ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Currently the third most-popular 3D printer in the U.S., the $1,599 H-Series printer from Afinia, a division of ...