Stratasys lists possible applications including garment fasteners, optical features, circuits and heating or cooling elements. A printed snap connector on a textile is an very understandable example.

Instead of continuing as a thick cylinder, the plastic becomes a thin hollow cylinder flowing around the insert. The patent proposes heating that material from both sides, since the central column is ...

Charles G. Goulding examines how AI-powered hearing aids and 3D printed ear components are changing the way researchers ...

You load up your slicer, and select a material. When you do that, the slicer automatically uses the API in the background to ...

US20260346340A1, published on November 5, describes a way to make molten aluminum 3D printing more reliable. It was filed by Desktop Metal, a company that has disappeared following a torturous ...

Sinterit is winding down manufacturing. The long-term Polish manufacturer of low cost SLS 3D printers confirmed that it filed ...

This week’s selection is Affordable RAM by Printables contributor Dezain 3D. If you’ve been shopping for a PC lately, you ...