When athletes laced up for the Paris Olympics, Nike gave 13 members of team USA custom sneakers. The goal was to help the athletes compete across track, soccer, basketball, and tennis. Nike leveraged ...

While 3D printing has been making headlines for years, one particular area of the burgeoning industry – the additive layering of metals to create components for everything from medical surgical robots ...

Discover the essential steps involved before a 3D printer starts printing.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Not all 3D printing is created equal, and while the concept of making a 3D model may be shared, there's more than one way to achieve it.

This article is aimed at large scale 3D printing. For medium and desktop size printing, both thermoplastic materials and thermoset materials are used. While for large format additive manufacturing ...

MarketsandMarkets forecast recently that the global 3D printing market will grow by 22.5% a year, rising from $12.6bn in 2021 to $34.8bn by 2026. The technology’s usefulness was demonstrated during ...

A new 3D printing method developed by engineers is so simple that it uses a polymer ink and salt water solution to create solid structures. The work has the potential to make materials manufacturing ...

Manufacturers of smart medical devices, smart robots and other products with smart sensors could simplify their device design and fabrication using a patent-pending Purdue University method that ...

(a) Schematic of the multi-material one-step printing process, demonstrating the sequential switching of three different resin tanks during printing to achieve composite structures in a single step.