3D Insider is ad supported and earns money from clicks, commissions from sales, and other ways. Two decades ago, 3D modeling was something that only experienced animators and game developers bothered ...

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 ...

3D Insider is ad supported and earns money from clicks, commissions from sales, and other ways. The community of 3D printing and modeling may have become much larger in the past few years, but most 3D ...

What a let down. Part of this is due to shortcomings in the STL file format. There’s a newer format available, 3MF, and Josef Prusa and Jakub Kočí would like you to start using it. STL — short for ...

STL files are everywhere. When there’s something to 3D print, it’s probably going to be an STL. Which, as long as the model is good just as it is, is no trouble at all. But sooner or later there will ...