Autodesk's Tinkercad is a free Web-based design tool that enables you to create 3D objects, then download those creations in a printer-friendly format. Here's how to get started.

Not everyone with a 3D printer has the skills for creating digital 3D printing files and they depend on downloads from online 3D print files repositories. There are many options when it comes to ...

To test the hands-free door handle adapters, Hong printed the design with a relatively inexpensive Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D printer, but says that files are printable on any machine.

I bought a 3D printer a few years ago, primarily with the aim of printing functional items to use around the house. It has ...

The full text is published as C. Zhang, N. C. Anzalone, R. P. Faria and J. M. Pearce, "Open-Source 3D-Printable Optics Equipment" PLOS One (2013) To download open optics designs from the paper and ...

A demo account is free to try, and it allows you to play with the program to your heart’s content. 3D printing is coming of age, and it’s great to see new tools like this arriving to help ...

A small 3D printing company called Just3DPrint has scraped a large portion of Thingiverse, Makerbot's Creative Commons-based database of 3D models. The ...

The 3D-printed lower receiver of an AR-15, which until recently could be found on the 3D-printing website Thingiverse. You have the right to bear arms. But you don't necessarily have the right to ...