Celestiq engineers aren’t just drawing up three-dimensional CAD files and pressing Ctrl+P, though. Before graduating to ...

This idea was arguably born out of necessity, thanks to Apple's brilliantly designed Magic Mouse and its charging port on the ...

A new open-source tool is reshaping how engineers design multi-material objects. Charles Wade, a Ph.D. student in the ...

OpenVCAD is a completely open-source tool, meaning it is widely available for engineers around the world to use. It even ...

New CU Boulder research advances multiple material 3D printing - using functions and code to map different materials in a 3D ...

Charles Wade, a PhD student in computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder, has developed OpenVCAD, a design ...

James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s. While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser ...

Murray Leinster’s short story Things Pass By, published in 1945, includes what may be the first description of 3D printers: But this constructor is both efficient and flexible. I feed magnetronic ...

What if the next leap in technology wasn’t happening in your pocket or on your desk, but in your workshop? Imagine a world where 3D printers no longer struggle with uneven layers, wasted materials, or ...

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, ...

From a technical standpoint, use foreshortening, cast shadows and reflected light to give your characters volume and depth.