3D printing is great for prototyping, making spare parts and even end use production. But before you hit print on your machine, it’s a good idea to make sure that the file you’re outputting is fully ...

Sometimes the most interesting insights come from the least likely places. Looking at Greentoken, an online app developed by 22 year old German computer science student Alexander Gessler, all I ...

VoxelDance, a Shanghai-based software company, has developed an Import Module to support various file formats for 3D printing. Incorporated into the company’s VoxelDance Additive data preparation ...

In the beginning, there was the stereolithography file, commonly called the STL file. Although not very complex—it was essentially a collection of triangles—the STL provided a way to get data into ...

At the big 3D Print Week event last month in New York City, Hewlett-Packard (HP) alluded to a big announcement related to 3D Printing file formats. A week later, at the Build 2015 event, Microsoft ...

3D printing is a surprisingly complicated hobby. Those who wish to successfully master the art need to know about the different file types that their digital blueprints can be saved to. Even those who ...

STL (stereolithography) file types are commonly used in CAM and 3D printing, but are unfortunately difficult to work with in SOLIDWORKS. STL (stereolithography) file types are commonly used in CAM and ...