If you’re moving beyond foam board wings, 3D printing is an excellent way to create an accurate airfoil, and [Tom Stanton] provides us with an excellent guide to modeling wing sections for easy ...

Thatcher Chamberlin, a first-year computer science student, has developed on online program called Moon2STL that allows anyone with a 3D printer to print a raised relief map of part of the moon's ...

Here’s how it works. The best way to simplify a complex model for 3D printing is to reduce its triangle mesh. Sometimes called decimating, this process takes away a lot of the complex geometry ...

the space agency also provides a vast collection of 3D-printing-ready models of its most popular spacecraft, asteroids, craters, and much more. The Internet is full of free 3D models to print ...

But if you want one for your kids or one that’s more family-friendly, we recommend the Toybox 3D Printer to start making fun shapes and items. For detailed model printing, or even one that can ...

They are computer models printed using a 3D printer. Over the past two decades, 3D printing technology has become more and more popular and affordable. Used in everything from the design and ...

The cool part about 3D-printing your own model is that changing the scale takes a matter of seconds, so the main limitation is the size of your printer. The XJ can be printed in 1/43 scale ...

Wouldn’t it be cool to extract 3D models from your favorite video games and then 3D print them? As it turns out, it’s pretty easy to do! In the following video tutorial he shows us how to ...

Check both overall volume (we detail this in cubic inches) and individual dimensions (height, width, depth) to make sure it can handle the kinds of models you want to create. 3D printing takes time.

SEE MORE MobiPrint is a mobile 3D printer that can ... Before it starts printing, MobiPrint autonomously roams an indoor space and uses LiDAR to map it. A design tool converts the map into an ...