Casting metal and 3D printing go together like nuts and gum, and there are no shortage techniques that use the two together. Lost PLA casting is common, and sculptors are getting turned on to creating ...

[Florian] has a few arcade games and MAME machines, and recently he’s been trying to embed objects in those hard plastic spheres on the end of joysticks. A common suggestion is to 3D print some molds, ...

Exponentially grow your toolbox by learning to make molds with a low-cost 3D printer. In our previous installment, we mentioned how having access to tools can greatly expand an engineer’s ability to ...

Machined tooling contributes to the majority of production costs for many small-run jobs. 3D printing can reduce the cost of plastic cores, molds, and tooling, but there are several considerations to ...

Photo Credit: TU Munich Chair of Carbon Composites (LCC) and QPoint Composite This blog began when CEAD (Delft, Netherlands) informed me that LCC had bought one of its extruder-based AM flexbot ...

LONDON (Jan. 12, 2017) — Group Michelin has set up a joint venture with French machinery supplier Fives Group S.A. to develop industrial machines and production shops for metal 3D printing, with an ...