Capable of making a part from scratch in hours, or just minutes for small objects, 3D printing is used to create models to determine if a design meets customer expectations. 3D printing can more ...

Hosting models somewhere and putting a buy button in front of the download is certainly a solved problem, but after spending some time buying and printing a variety of non-free 3D models online ...

How Are Print-in-Place Models Different? Usually when you print a 3D model, you need to generate supports for it so that any ...

For your model plane he selects a cylinder and squashes ... are two options - either open the design in a games engine or 3D print it. In this video Conánn demonstrates the former of these ...

If you’re moving beyond foam board wings, 3D printing is an excellent way to create an accurate airfoil, and [Tom Stanton] provides us with an excellent guide to modeling wing sections for easy ...

Do you also recall when prototyping was costly, time-consuming, and, in many cases, rather anguishing? Conventional processes ...

a designer who is pioneering the use of 3D printing in the fashion industry. He describes how he starts from a 3D scan of a model’s foot, before using computer aided design (CAD) to help design a shoe ...

The site provides downloadable models for 3D printing fossils and artifacts found mostly at Lake Turkana in East Africa. The digital collection of animals, human ancestors, as well as ancient stone ...

Me too, and before I started selling 3D printed items commercially, there were several steps I took to prepare. Selling ...

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