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3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: September 19, 2021
We’ve got another busy week of webinars and events to tell you about! Topics in this week’s roundup run the gamut from 3D digital textures and FDM 3D printing potential…
Preparing Your Daz 3D Model for 3D Printing from Blender
Daz Studio is a free software that anyone can use, whether they have 3D sculpting experience or not, to create custom models for everything from video game development and animated…
Making Custom Models for 3D Printing with Daz Studio
Blender is a great solution for professional-quality models, and with practice, you can achieve satisfactory results. However, if you find yourself throwing your hands up in exasperation during the process,…
Former Browns Running Back Restores Nearly 200-Year-Old Menorah with 3D Printing
From artwork and historic buildings to monuments and other priceless artifacts, technologies like 3D scanning and 3D printing are often called on to help restore and preserve touchstones of history….
An Overview of Inexpensive CAD Options for 3D Printing
We live in a great time, where we have not only affordable 3D printers but also many great CAD programs available for free, so you can easily design anything you…
WASP Makes 3D Orthotics Modeling Accessible with Free Blender Add-On
Italian 3D printer company WASP, also known as the World’s Advanced Saving Project, stays pretty true to its name – the company always works hard to make sure its technology…
3D Printing News Briefs: January 26, 2019
We’re starting with business first in this edition of 3D Printing News Briefs, and then moving on to design software and 3D printing materials. Mimaki USA is getting ready for…
3D Printing News Briefs: December 30, 2018
In this week’s abbreviated 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ve got a story on a new type of 3D printing that makes it easy to 3D print small objects, and a…
Algorithms and 3D Printing Can Be Used to Create Realistic Nasal Prostheses
While it’s a shock to lose any body part, psychological impact runs especially deep when a part of the face, like the nose, is impacted, as it’s so visible and so ingrained as…
Custom Prototypes Reclaims AMUG Gold with Stunning Metal 3D Printed Roman Helmet
Last week, the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) held its annual conference in St. Louis, Missouri. Many 3D printing announcements came out of the show, but the one I’m most…
Researchers Develop Painless 3D Printed Microneedles that Dissolve and Deliver Drugs Under Human Skin
I hate getting shots more than almost anything, except maybe going to the dentist. Really, it’s seeing the needle puncture my skin that bothers me more than anything – I…
3D Printed Reflector Improves WiFi Signal and Security in Interior Spaces
Have you ever been stuck waiting somewhere, like a doctor’s office, and really just wanted to check your email while you were sitting there, but the WiFi signal was just…
What About 3D CAD?
The first rule for printing in 3D is the presence of a 3D file. The next article will lead you through basic computer-aided design (CAD) terms, will review the market…
System76 Uses LulzBot TAZ 3D Printer to Create 26 Guy Tux Masks for July 4th
Marketing makes the world go ’round. And when coupled with innovative technology like 3D printing, the sky is the limit. The busy team at System76 discovered this recently as a…
3D Printing Spotlight On: Vicky Somma, Maker and Software Developer
If you’re inexperienced with 3D printing but want to learn, there are plenty of courses, both online and in-person, that you can take – or, if you’re anything like Vicky…
Springboro STEMfest: Ohio Students Learn About 3D Printing, STEAM Education, and Rocket Launchers
Science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics are picking up steam lately – which is handy, as they fall into a curriculum of the same name, as STEAM education takes its…
Medical Student Creates Patient-Specific 3D Printed Liver Model for Less Than $150
While researchers continue working hard to make readily available 3D printed organs a reality, we know that it likely won’t happen, at least not on a massively available and low-cost scale,…
The Ancient and the Advanced Come Together in 3D Printed Primal Crafts Jewelry
Kristoffer Rønn-Andersen recently graduated with a Master’s degree in engineering, but he found that he just couldn’t resist the call of the creative. Having started out by designing a few gifts…
Software Updates, Partnerships, a New President and the MOARstruder: Big News from Aleph Objects and LulzBot at CES 2017
While CES 2017 previews and special events have been going on all week, the largest technology trade show in the US didn’t officially open until today – and now that…
Out of the Abyss: Miguel Zavala Unveils New Dungeons & Dragons 3D Printable Model Collection
Miguel Zavala, a US Army vet, 3D designer, and Dungeons & Dragons player, was the focus of 3DPrint.com’s most heavily trafficked and shared article of 2016…or rather, the impressively detailed…
The Spirit of a Dreamer Spurs 3D Design & 3D Printing Innovation — A Few Questions For: Melissa Ng
With great technology comes great innovation. Designers, makers, builders, modelers – the 3D printing community is full of astonishing talent, and the pool is deep. We often speak with participants in…
The Blender Institute Uses a LulzBot Mini 3D Printer to Facilitate Open Source Creativity
One of the most popular 3D creation software programs is Blender, for a multitude of reasons. First of all, it’s free. Secondly, it’s open source, relying on the collaborative creativity of…
For the 3D Printing Novice: Shapeways Offers Insights into CAD & 3D Modeling
For those just beginning to try their hand at 3D printing, often it’s easy to jump in with only the end goal in sight as you imagine that sophisticated looking…
The Lord of Sipán: 3D Scanning and Modeling Recreate the Face of Ancient Peruvian Royal
No one really knows what happened to the Moche civilization, which populated Peru between the years 1 and 800 CE. They were artistically and architecturally advanced, with several monuments and…