Stratasys Ltd., announced that Danish shoe manufacturer ECCO is using Stratasys Origin One 3D printing technology to accelerate product development, allowing conceptual footwear samples to be reviewed ...

Plastic packaging is a common part of everyday life: bottles; containers for foods, beverages, medicines and more fill our pantry shelves and recycling bins. Thin-walled and hollow plastic bottles ...

We’ll admit that most of the Hackaday staff wouldn’t get too far on a skateboard, but that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate the impressive DIY wheels that [Chris McCann] has managed to cast using 3D ...

Casting metal and 3D printing go together like nuts and gum, and there are no shortage techniques that use the two together. Lost PLA casting is common, and sculptors are getting turned on to creating ...

Machined tooling contributes to the majority of production costs for many small-run jobs. 3D printing can reduce the cost of plastic cores, molds, and tooling, but there are several considerations to ...

In this video, I’ll show you how to make a 3D mold without using any silicone! These simple and affordable techniques are ...

With the additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing process, there's almost nothing that can't be printed from human ears to end-use aircraft components thanks to an ever increasing range of materials ...

Chinese 3D printer manufacturer Farsoon Technologies is 3D printing molds to support high-volume shoe production. The company has integrated its metal 3D printing into the traditional manufacturing ...

Origami, the Japanese art of folding flat sheets of paper into three-dimensional figures, is the creative spark behind a new hybrid 3D printing technique. It allows structures to be created without ...

Researchers have developed a low-cost method using LCD 3D-printed molds to fabricate geometry-tunable PDMS intraocular lenses ...

Automotive lighting component manufacturer Danyang Sanyou Optoelectronic Equipment Co., Ltd. has cut its mold trial cycle ...