One of the best things about owning a 3D printer is that it can upgrade itself. Once you get past the first few successful Benchies, you start noticing all the little annoyances that slow you down or ...

Fused deposition modeling printing is the most common printing method used in 3D printing. The two key words are "deposition" and "fused". Basically, what an FDM 3D printer does is heat up plastic, ...

HP Inc has launched a new industrial 3D printer and extended its additive manufacturing alliances with Siemens and BASF. The company has unveiled its HP Jet Fusion 5200 Series 3D printer, which it ...

DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. — Ten years ago, Ford 3D-printed perhaps 4,000 prototype parts for its vehicles. Today, just one of the automaker’s five 3D prototyping centers churns out more than 20,000 ...

Once a novelty technology used by a few cutting-edge companies to make part prototypes, 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is now considered a mainstream technology for the factory ...

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 ...