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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

You get the Nevermore, a design for a recirculating active-carbon filtration system to deal with VOCs (volatile organic compounds) from 3D printing.

Blender is a free computer-aided design (CAD) software that covers many facets of 3D creation, including animation and modeling. Its photorealistic rendering option is the most exciting feature ...

But with metal 3D printing, supports can be difficult to remove (even if they are accessible), leave defects on the surface from which they are removed, and add significant time and material costs ...