GM is now using additive manufacturing in many of its race series 3D printing saves both time and money, especially in the wind tunnel It does trickle down to production vehicles, but not exactly as ...

One of the great things about 3D printers is their ability to make a single part all at once. Separating a part into multiple pieces is usually done to split up objects that are too big to fit on the ...

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 ...

The invention of 3D printing has made many car projects more, um, completable. Some discontinued parts can now be recreated from a computer drawing—which can introduce an opportunity for innovation ...

It may seem distinctly low-tech compared to some of the many technology trends I write about, but 3D and 4D printing will have very wide applications – and could be particularly powerful when combined ...

Silicone is a useful material for many purposes. Traditionally, creating something out of silicone required injection molding. That’s not difficult, but it does require a good bit of setup. As ...

A new factory capable of 3D printing industrial-grade parts for the Navy could begin manufacturing items by the early part of ...

VW has been working with HP and Siemens to scale up 3D metal printing processes to make car parts. Metallic 3D-printed parts weigh half as much as those produced from sheet steel, allowing the ...

3-D printing is no longer a new or innovative technology for the largest manufacturers in aerospace who have been creating solid objects from digital files for more than a decade, but what’s happening ...

Marine Corps Systems Command representatives load a 3D-printed head cap onto an M58 Mine Clearing Line Charge rocket May 19 during a testing event in Yuma, Arizona. MCSC successfully developed and ...

The U.S. Air Force certified its first piece of equipment to be 3D printing for its aircraft—a toilet seat cover. Many of the U.S. Air Force's aging planes have a tough time finding replacement parts, ...