When engineers struggled to make 3D printer nozzles narrow enough for their needs, they turned to nature and found the ...

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 ...

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 ...

When it comes to innovation, engineers have long proved to be brilliant copycats, drawing inspiration directly from nature.

3D Systems has helped Align Technologies develop a 3D-printing solution to create more than 350,000 custom Invisalign aligners per day. "They figured out there is a phenomenal need: no one likes ...

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 ...

When natural disaster strikes, a building’s survival often depends on how it’s built. Engineers at Carnegie Mellon University have created a fast, highly accurate simulator for spray-based concrete 3D ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...