3D Printing and Scanning for a BMW Vehicle

Making vehicle models can be quite lucrative because collectors everywhere really enjoy them. However, to make an accurate model can be very difficult. You need CAD data to do this and unless you want to spend weeks re-creating the specifications of the vehicle, you need some sort of scanning technology to make this possible. Thankfully, … Read more

3D Printing Gives Ontario High School Students a Design Edge

High school design students are always trying to get a leg up on their work. A new technology may just give them that edge. Students at Ontario High School recently utilized 3D printing to complete their projects to excellent effect. There are 500 students at the school in Mansfield, Ohio, who were tasked with creating … Read more

3D Printer Service Wins Breakthrough Award

If you’ve always been interested in the idea of 3D printing and were wondering how to get involved, a new device is going to make that possible for you in a much easier way than ever before. A device called 3D systems Cube recently won an award given by Popular Mechanics called the 2012 Breakthrough … Read more

3D Scanning Used to Build Custom Choppers

Building custom choppers is an involved process. Depending on the shape of the bike, it can take a long time to develop the design by hand. War Eagle customs recently built a new frame called the Classic Pro-Smooth. It took a long time to create but once it was done they needed to create a … Read more

Boeing Uses 3D Printing to Create Models

The process of making models is much different than it used to be. People used to have to manually create these models that were representations of whatever larger project they were trying to undertake. However, nowadays 3D printing can be utilized to create models in a fraction of the time that it used to take. … Read more