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 ...

Aluminum is prized for being lightweight and strong, but at high temperatures it loses strength. This has limited its use in ...

Slant 3D] has a useful video explaining some thoughtful CAD techniques for designing 3D printed pins that don’t break and the concepts can be extended to similar features. Sure, one can ...

Rocket engineering is shifting from painstaking machining and welding to a world where engines and tanks emerge from printers ...

The new John Deere tractors rolling off the manufacturing line in Mannheim, Germany, have a first for the company: a metal 3D-printed engine part. The global manufacturer of agricultural and turf ...

VW has been working with HP and Siemens to scale up 3D metal printing processes to make car parts. Metallic 3D-printed parts weigh half as much as those produced from sheet steel, allowing the ...

Specifically, Heineken is using a set of Ultimaker S5 printers to design and print its safety devices, tools and parts. Previously, Heineken would outsource those parts to third party vendors. The ...

3-D printing is no longer a new or innovative technology for the largest manufacturers in aerospace who have been creating solid objects from digital files for more than a decade, but what’s happening ...

Imagine holding a 3D-printed part in your hands, marveling at its intricate design, only to have it snap under pressure due to weak layer adhesion. This is the frustrating reality of anisotropic ...

Anyone who's mucked about with consumer-grade 3D printers knows that it's infinitely cool to create stuff with them, but you ...

People often contact me because they want to 3D print a replacement part. The requests have been as mundane as a stove knob or as novel as a replacement crystal for a chandelier. Typically, they are ...

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 ...