As the patents for fused-filament 3D printers began to expire back in 2013, hackers and makers across the globe started making 3D objects in their garages, workshops and hackerspaces. Entire ...

Motion pictures, video games, architecture, construction, product development, medical, all these industries are using 3D objects for visualizing, simulating, and rendering graphic designs. 3D ...

Despite many people understanding the concept of 3D printing, few know the 3D design and printing process well enough to try it out for themselves and take the step towards creating physical objects ...

Cambridge University PhD student Qi Pan has designed software that creates textured 3D models in slightly more than a minute using a stationary camera, such as a webcam. Conventional off-line model ...

One of my first discoveries about 3D printing was the large number of mostly-free objects people have designed and made available for you to simply download and print. You don't have to have an iota ...

Photofly 2, a free piece of software from Autodesk, the company behind the ancient and illustrious AutoCAD software, can stitch standard digital photos into accurate 3D models. You don't need a fancy ...

Epic Games announced a new 3D scanning app for iOS and Android devices on Monday. It's called RealityScan, and as the name indicates, it turns photos you take with your phone into high-fidelity 3D ...

Polycam is an affordable alternative to pro-level 3D scanners and is much less effort than traditional photogrammetry methods ...

AI is transforming the way we produce and envision 3D objects. AI-based 3D object generators are providing designers and artists the capability to create high-quality 3D models more swiftly than ever ...