3D printing is a surprisingly complicated hobby. Those who wish to successfully master the art need to know about the different file types that their digital blueprints can be saved to. Even those who ...

As rapid-fire advances enrich the 3D-printing landscape, file formats have to keep pace to support these changes, or there’s a risk of neutralizing further progress. In the beginning, there was the ...

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 ...

Cars are Andrew's jam, as is strawberry. After spending years as a regular ol' car fanatic, he started working his way through the echelons of the automotive industry, starting out as social-media ...

Teenage Engineering launched its Ikea Frekvens line of speakers and home items earlier this year, and now the company is offering free 3D printing files so customers can create their own Ikea hacks.

If 3D printing companies and government agencies hope to police the spread of dangerous or pirated digital shapes, their task is about to get much more complicated. Late last month Matthew ...

London designer Matthew Plummer-Fernandez has developed a piece of software that allows users to visually corrupt 3D-print files so they can't be recognised on file-sharing sites. Matthew ...

Designer Matthew Plummer-Fernandez likes to toy with our perceptions of media, creating chandeliers from computer mice and 3D printing Venus de Milo from Google Images. The results of his work always ...

How authorities monitor the spread of unauthorised weapons has become more complicated as technology enables new manufacturing methods. The manufacture of guns using three dimensional (3D) printing ...