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FDM stands for Fused Deposition Modeling, and it refers to the most popular and common form of 3D printing where material is ...

Simplify, reduce meshes or decimate. Choose your terms. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The best way to simplify a complex model ...

Have you ever imagined turning your ideas into physical objects with just a few clicks? Thanks to tools like Tinkercad, what once seemed like science fiction is now an accessible reality for anyone ...

Color gradient filament is fun stuff to play with. It lets you make 3D prints that slowly fade from one color to another along the Z-axis. [David Gozzard] wanted to do some printing with this effect, ...

Look very closely at the reconstruction of the skull of newly discovered hominin ancestor Homo naledi. Can you tell that it's been 3D printed? According to John Hawks, a palaeoanthropologist on the ...

Wouldn’t it be cool to extract 3D models from your favorite video games and then 3D print them? As it turns out, it’s pretty easy to do! In the following video tutorial he shows us how to extract the ...

What if you could create a fully-formed, intricately detailed 3D object in the time it takes to brew a cup of coffee? It sounds like science fiction, but with volumetric 3D printing, this is now a ...

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 ...