There are numerous ways you can print objects in 3D starting today, without having to buy a 3D printer or use fancy 3D modeling software. When reading about 3D printers, there's usually an ...

If you hate waiting for days to get an item that you bought on the Internet, here’s some good news. Now you may be able to print the object yourself, at home. Here’s how it works: You design ...

Learn how to design and 3D print with Tinkercad in this beginner-friendly guide. Step-by-step tips to turn your ideas into ...

Here’s how it works: You design an object, and then a 3-D printer applies small strands of plastic in thin layers until it’s built your product. These machines have been available for ...

The largest companies in 3-D printing are racing to simplify design software so that it can become as easy to make an object as it is to send a document to a printer. Detail oriented: A metal heat ...

Now you may be able to print the object yourself, at home. Here’s how it works: You design an object, and then a 3-D printer applies small strands of plastic in thin layers until it’s built […] ...

We continue our 3D printing discovery series by showing you how quick and easy it is to customize the size of pre-designed objects -- without ever going into a 3D design program.

3D printing works in a pretty simple way - you build up a three-dimensional object over time in a series of layers. But now a team of Austrian computer scientists has designed an alternative approach.

Researchers in Sweden have developed a 3-D printer capable of building objects out of cellulose from wood.

Education too can make use of 3-D printing to allow students to make solid their experimental designs.

It's hard to visualize what four-dimensional objects look like — but artist Henry Segerman can show you their three-dimensional shadows.