Historically, manufacturers and online retail companies have been forced to limit customization options based on quantity and scale. To produce an original design or custom option, manufacturers would ...

3D printing is something that most technology and art enthusiasts are interested in, but everyday people don’t need it. This is the widespread notion everyone has about 3D printing these days, but ...

A new open-source software tool is changing the way engineers design and print complex 3D objects. Developed at the University of Colorado Boulder, the program—called OpenVCAD—lets users easily design ...

The software that supports additive manufacturing is a vital part of the 3D printing process—arguably as important as the 3D printer itself. Computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering ...

B radley Rothenberg, cofounder and CEO of nTopology, is building next generation design software that relies on mathematical computations to create 3D-printed parts and products that are lighter and ...

What Is Slicer Software and How Does it Enable 3D Printing? 3D printing, a type of additive manufacturing, works by creating objects layer-by-layer based on a digital computer-aided design (CAD) model ...

Computer-aided design software lets you design 2-D and 3-D drawings and models, replacing traditional pencil-and-paper drafting to create blueprints with easily altered electronic files. In the ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Currently the third most-popular 3D printer in the U.S., the $1,599 H-Series printer from Afinia, a division of ...

nTopology's Brad Rothenberg with a bracket for a space satellite designed on nTop's software by Zenith Tecnica of New Zealand. Brad Rothenberg, the 34-year-old cofounder and CEO of software startup ...