James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s. While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser ...

More affordable than ever, 3D printers are booming for personal, professional, and educational use. We've been testing them for over a decade and are here to help you find the right option. Since 2004 ...

The rise of the consumer 3D printer has yielded amazing devices for designers, engineers, hobbyists, tinkerers, and schools alike. I've been reviewing 3D printers for PCMag since the first widely ...

In this post, we are going to discuss the best free 3D file viewer software for Windows 11/10. Using these free software, you can easily view a variety of 3D files. Some of the commonly supported 3D ...

A 3D shape with all straight edges and flat faces is a polyhedron. Other 3D shapes with least one curved surface are not polyhedra. A 3D shape with regular polygonal faces, meeting at equal angles, is ...

Abstract: Dragging is a fundamental interaction technique in human-computer interaction. Prior research on dragging has generally been concerned with 2D objects on 2D interactive surfaces, with ...

3D Insider is ad supported and earns money from clicks, commissions from sales, and other ways. 3D printing is the latest thing to excite anyone who loves easy-to-use interactive technology. Engineers ...

The text on the pages of this book, Manual, isn’t a traditional story. Look closely, and you’ll see it’s G-code, the machine language used to control 3D ...

Paint3D is a novel coarse-to-fine generative framework that is capable of producing high-resolution, lighting-less, and diverse 2K UV texture maps for untextured 3D meshes conditioned on text or image ...

Scientists Grow Metal Instead of 3D Printing It — And It’s 20x Stronger Oct. 10, 2025 Scientists at EPFL have reimagined 3D printing by turning simple hydrogels into tough metals and ceramics. Their ...

The best 3D scanners capture reality. You can use one to make yourself the star of a video game, create digital doubles for movie visual effects, archive items of historical interest, or develop ...

Curated list of resources related to the development of game engines (tools that improve and speed up game creation). Specifically toward the development of high-level, fully featured game engines ...