Anyone who’s spent some quality time with a desktop 3D printer is familiar with the concept of supports. If you’re working with a complex model that has overhanging features, printing a “scaffolding” ...

Additive manufacturing is “really good at producing complex parts directly from digital data,” Patrick Dunne tells Design News. As vice president, application innovation group and technical fellow for ...

I'm working on 3d-printing a part that will mate a Fein shop vac to an enclosure for a CNC mill. The Fein has an externally-threaded nozzle attachment, so I'd like to print a matching ...

In the metal AM process, supports in anchor parts prevent distortion. Support structures are made of the same materials as the part and prevent distortion, but add considerable design and ...