Newswise — For engineers and hobbyists, 3D printing technology is seen as a useful tool to quickly produce objects such as machine parts. But at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, this technology is ...

Additive manufacturing, more popularly known as 3D printing, is one of the fastest-growing fields in the manufacturing industry. The technology is now being used to fabricate a wide range of complex, ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

The expansion of 3D printing in recent years has altered the design process. Design software vendors are bringing together the stages of design for 3D products -- optimization of weight and structure, ...

As part of a project for America Makes, a team of engineers at Michigan Technological University (MTU) has released free, open-source web-based software and firmware that remotely control your 3D ...

What Is Slicer Software and How Does it Enable 3D Printing? 3D printing, a type of additive manufacturing, works by creating objects layer-by-layer based on a digital computer-aided design (CAD) model ...

A new open-source tool is reshaping how engineers design multi-material objects. Charles Wade, a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at CU Boulder, has created a design ...