This is 2D printing, because there’s an area with an x-axis and a y-axis, so there are two degrees of freedom. With 3D printing, there's a third dimension: height.

Explore the mechanics of a 3D printer through detailed animations and explanations. This video reveals the fundamental ...

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How do 3D printers work? The most common 3D printer design, Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), is similar to an inkjet printer. The FDM printhead moves side to side, depositing material on a moving ...

While most forms of 3D printing utilize simple plastic in one form or another, not all of them do. For example, the process of selective laser sintering, or SLS, makes use of powdered polymers.

Digital manufacturing is increasingly being used to reduce waste, improve energy efficiency and enhance circularity of ...

Italian company Italdesign uses 3D printing in numerous automotive projects. To learn more, we interviewed the team!

You can expect to pay somewhere between $100 and $300 for child-friendly 3D printers and accompanying 3D printing pens, and between $300 and $500 for entry-level 3D printers designed for the ...

U.S. Marines with I Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, learn how to 3D print a castle during the Building Momentum Innovation Bootcamp at Camp Pendleton, California, Sept. 27, 2021.

3D printing is changing the way we make things, and by extension the thing that we make. But how exactly does it work, and how is it advancing? By Graham Templeton October 26, 2015 ...