If you have a 3D printer already, do a Google search for press brake tooling, punches, or dies, and include STEP or STL files ...

3D printing is a surprisingly complicated hobby. Those who wish to successfully master the art need to know about the different file types that their digital blueprints can be saved to. Even those who ...

Like many people, I have been preparing files for 3D printing using 3D modeling programs or downloading them from 3D model ...

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If you’re using a 3D printer, you’ll need something to print ...

Apple has highlighted its use of 3D printing to make Apple Watch cases, to cut material use — and to enable a new, thin USB-C ...

A 3D printer turns digital designs into physical objects using a variety of substances, from plastic to ceramic to something that kind of looks like wood. Before you even touch a printer, you'll need ...

As rapid-fire advances enrich the 3D-printing landscape, file formats have to keep pace to support these changes, or there’s a risk of neutralizing further progress. In the beginning, there was the ...

I'm laughing my butt off. I asked ChatGPT to make me into an action figure so I could ride the wave of the viral AI trend, and wow, did it deliver. It turned me into a rock star figurine in skin-tight ...

Look very closely at the reconstruction of the skull of newly discovered hominin ancestor Homo naledi. Can you tell that it's been 3D printed? According to John Hawks, a palaeoanthropologist on the ...

We all like it when people share, right? It's a nice thing to do. Ford is giving us common folk access to its Ford Integrated Tether System (FITS) mounting point geometry files. We knew Ford was going ...