Explore these 12 amazing 3D printer projects. From practical solutions to artistic expressions, find inspiration for your next creation.

Things to Consider Before You Print Before you pick a place that’s going to make your 3D object, you need a 3D model to actually print.

Let’s skip the “next big thing” talk and jump right into it: three-dimensional printing is officially here and people are already using the technology to change the world. 3D printing has ...

Rather than taking away, 3D printing uses the additive process. Starting from nothing, the 3D printer reproduces a digital model by adding materials in layers until the final product is achieved.

3D printing is already creating amazing things, from violins to racecars.

Things to make with 3D printer waste Designers Seongil Choi and Fabio Hendry have developed a process to make craft designs from the waste product of 3D printing.

CES 2013 proved to be something of a coming out party for consumer-facing 3D printers. Sure MakerBot earned a fair amount of attention at last year's show with the announcement of the Replicator ...

The go-to line is that desktop 3D printers represent "the democratization of manufacturing." If you have a printer of your own, there's nearly no limit to what you can make. You don't even need to ...

We scoured the Internet to find the strangest 3D objects, and some of them are pretty unbelievable. From clothes to weapons to food (yes, food), we present the 10 Weirdest Things Made with 3D ...

3D-printed structural brackets for planes, like this one for the Airbus A350 XWB jet, make aircraft significantly lighter and more fuel-efficient. 3D-printed polymers often have “high strength ...