There are several 3D printing companies showcasing their new technologies at SolidWorks World 2011 (SWW11), currently being held in San Antonio, Texas. They include Roland DGA, Stratasys, Solidio, ...

Last week we started to Make a Thing in Solidworks. We got as far as sketching and extruding the base. This week we’ll make the back portion. We’ll use some of the same techniques in Part I and a few ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, has a robotics design contest—called the “mother of all robot contests”—in which each student has to build a functional robot in a 15-week semester ...

3D design and printing technology has advanced at an alarming rate. We can now print complex objects from different materials, in different colors, in rapid time — even in the comfort of our own homes ...

Cornerstone of many useful things: This Prusa i3 part was modeled in OpenSCAD. Programmatic CAD, in particular the OpenSCAD language and IDE, has accompanied the maker movement for a while now. After ...

The race is on to use 3D printing to produce small-series parts, on demand and on location, for industries from aerospace to automotive. At stake is the shape of a $400 billion market for spare parts ...

A Boston startup has introduced the first 3D printer capable of printing in carbon fiber, the super-strong and lightweight material used in race cars and space shuttles. After a year of stealth ...