…Miguel Angel Villar Alarcon, one of the managers at Spanish 3D Systems’ distributor Impresoras 3D, introduced a side project he has been working at: an online tool to unite all major 3D printable model databases under one roof. While there…
Engineers trying to keep track of the ever-ballooning number of materials and machines for additive manufacturing (AM) and 3D printing (3DP) now have some relief. The free, searchable Senvol Database has data on more than 350 machines and 450 different…
Recently, (there has been) reported many advancements around 3D printing in medical care for humans; however, humans are not the only ones that can directly benefit by the advancement of 3D printing technology. 3D Systems has worked together with the…
When Pratt & Whitney began working with additive manufacturing (AM) in the late 1980s, the future seemed to be in plastics. Today the technology popularly known as 3D printing is more sophisticated, and we are doing things with nickel and…
The long term dream for 3D printing is fully distributed and democratised manufacturing, as opposed to the current dominant model of centralized production. Long before that happens, though, it will be the current manufacturing industry that will evolve into something…