A few years ago, 3D printing sounded like science fiction. Today, there are thousands of beginner-friendly designs perfect ...

What a day and age we live in when you can design and edit CAD models in a virtual- or mixed-reality environment and then readily 3D-print those models when finished. It was only a short few years ago ...

Turn photos into 3D with Meta's SAM 3D, using SAM 2 masks and Gaussian splatting, so you can build assets quickly for ...

I bought a 3D printer a few years ago, primarily with the aim of printing functional items to use around the house. It has served that purpose extremely well and has even helped me save a few bucks ...

A UB team of biomedical engineers, neurosurgeons and cardiovascular interventionalists has developed a way to generate 3D prints of the human vascular system, giving surgeons pre-surgical, hands-on ...

3D scanning and 3D printing may sound like a natural match for one another, but they don’t always play together as easily and nicely as one would hope. I’ll explain what one can expect by highlighting ...

Can a machine dream up a design intricate enough to be held in your hand? The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 3D modeling has sparked both excitement and skepticism, particularly when it comes ...

Valentine Ananikov, a chemist at the Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry in Moscow, runs chemical reactions so delicate that just a trace of metal nanoparticles, smaller than a bacterium, could ...

It’s pretty wild how 3D printing is changing things up in healthcare. You know, it used to be that medical stuff was pretty ...

It’s been a while since 3D printers became available and started allowing people to create 3D objects in the real world right from their own home. If you’re interested in getting a rundown of what 3D ...

Editor’s Note: December 10, 2025: We’ve reviewed these selections to ensure they are available and competitively priced. To further update our coverage, with a focus on ease-of-use, we’ve called in ...