The 10 best STL files of 2025, featuring practical prints, clever designs, and standout 3D printing projects makers loved ...

Many 3D printing services, such as Shapeways and Sculpteo, print gifts and other small items on order on their own 3D printers, then ship them to the customer. Customers can either submit their own 3D ...

They're not your granddad's daisy wheel printer, or your mom's dot matrix. In fact, they bear little resemblance to today's document or photo printers, which can only print in boring old two ...

3D printing adds a whole new dimension to printing—literally—and has the potential to revolutionize manufacturing, just for starters. We tell you what 3D printing is, what it can do, and how you can ...

In the beginning, there was the stereolithography file, commonly called the STL file. Although not very complex—it was essentially a collection of triangles—the STL provided a way to get data into ...

At the big 3D Print Week event last month in New York City, Hewlett-Packard (HP) alluded to a big announcement related to 3D Printing file formats. A week later, at the Build 2015 event, Microsoft ...

GPD released 3D printable files for a replacement Win2 case, promoting repairability. There are many gadgets with out-of-print parts that could benefit from 3D printing. Releasing design files for 3D ...

The 3MF Consortium, which released its free initial core specification last year for a new 3D printing file format, has added two free extensions based on best practices. One makes it easier for ...