Photo Credit: TU Munich Chair of Carbon Composites (LCC) and QPoint Composite This blog began when CEAD (Delft, Netherlands) informed me that LCC had bought one of its extruder-based AM flexbot ...

Discover the full process of creating a large sacred icon using 3D printing, silicone molding, and plaster casting. From design to final result, this step-by-step project shows how to achieve detailed ...

Mold making pioneer reports significant time and cost efficiencies utilizing this approach for low volume production, enabling molders to quickly change inserts for different products MINNEAPOLIS & ...

The invention of the relatively affordable 3D printer for home use has helped bring methods used to produce parts for prototypes, samples, and even manufacturing, closer to designers. This tutorial on ...

I Didn't Expect This When I Poured 3D Printer Resin into Silicone Molds! What Happened? I’ve always wondered what would ...

We’ll admit that most of the Hackaday staff wouldn’t get too far on a skateboard, but that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate the impressive DIY wheels that [Chris McCann] has managed to cast using 3D ...

The conversation around 3D printing and traditional manufacturing methods like injection molding or thermoforming is often oppositional, but it’s not always a question of one versus the other. In ...

Mantle is launching a new series of $350,000 machines that can 3D-print the mold inserts that are used to produce injection-mold plastics. It’s hard to overstate how important this will be — I caught ...

Experiments that demonstrate 3D printing with dust, use engineered tissue to study muscle loss, and analyze growth of slime mold, along with other scientific studies and supplies, are headed to the ...

Hot runner manufacturer Mold-Masters will utilize Moldex3D 3D injection molding simulation software for design verification and optimization of hot runner systems. CoreTech System Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, ...