Everywhere you look, you find articles about the latest and greatest 3D printing machine for plastics and for metal laser sintering. This growing interest in 3D printing of metal parts has reached ...

Rice University bioengineering researchers have modified a commercial-grade CO2 laser cutter to create OpenSLS, an open-source, selective laser sintering platform that can print intricate 3-D objects ...

An open-source system has been created that uses a laser to melt powdered plastics and biomaterials into intricate 3-D designs. The OpenSLS selective laser sintering system costs about 40 times less ...

Ten years ago the concept of having on our desks an affordable 3D printer knocking out high quality reproducible prints, with sub-mm accuracy, in a wide range of colours and material properties would ...

Additive manufacturing is a process that adds material, usually on a layer-to-layer basis, to make a 3D object based off the interpretation of 3D computer-aided-design (CAD) data. Additive ...

The inventor of a new kind of 3-D printer says his research group will build a massive machine capable of mass-producing competitively priced plastic parts within two years. A larger version of this ...

Learn how to ensure accuracy and optimize part design for the Laser Sintering (LS) build process and compatible materials. This whitepaper shares design expertise honed over decades working with LS 3D ...

A University of Southern California inventor has created a machine that can produce 3-dimensional "printouts" in plastic and even metal more quickly and cheaply than widely-used existing systems. The ...

With the expiration of each 3D printing patent comes a new wave of affordable systems. In 2009, the expiration of key fused deposition modeling (FDM) patents led to the desktop explosion begun by the ...

Additive Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) is now offering flexible financing options on PXS Dental and PXM Dental laser sintering machines. AMT has partnered with Highland Capital to offer leasing ...

HOUSTON -- (Feb. 22, 2016) -- Rice University bioengineering researchers have modified a commercial-grade CO2 laser cutter to create OpenSLS, an open-source, selective laser sintering platform that ...

At the level pursued by many Hackaday readers, the advent of affordable 3D printing has revolutionised prototyping, as long as the resolution of a desktop printer is adequate and the part can be made ...