3D software

Those of you who ever took to the task of 3D printing their own project might have come across a particular dilemma. You’re excited to print the object of your choice after selecting a suitable STL file, which you’ve either…

While all additive manufacturing technologies work differently and each has its own specificities, one printing process always starts in the same way: Computer Aided Design. This step consists of modeling a part in two or three dimensions, which is where…

Anyone eager to start their own 3D printing project knows that it always begins with step one: choosing or developing a 3D model. However, many 3D printing enthusiasts underestimate the gravity of the entire work process that comes before the…

Photogrammetry is a technique for obtaining reliable data from real-world objects in the their natural state by creating 3D models from photographs. 2D and 3D data is extracted from an image and, thanks to overlapping photos of the object, building…

It has been apparent for a while now that additive manufacturing (AM) is becoming more industrialized. For example, we have been seeing the use of more mature technologies and materials suited to the creation of end-use products. However, one of…

The software you should use when designing a 3D printed part depends entirely on what it is. Indeed, the complexity of your object will influence your final choice. In general, modeling software can be separated into two categories CAD software…

Imagine a kind of software that can allow your FDM 3D printer to maintain a high printing speed while keeping a decent level of accuracy. The University of Michigan invented a solution following that exact idea. Back in 2017, we…

For many companies, digitization and automation are the keys to the further development of additive manufacturing. Thus, more and more manufacturers are relying on cloud-based solutions and integrating various algorithms into their 3D printing solutions in order to exploit the…

French-German company CoreTechnologie is adding new features to its CAD software, 4D_Additive, which is designed specifically for additive manufacturing. 4D_Additive 1.4, the latest version of the software, can now repair and simplify 3D scan data and STL files with a…

PrusaSlicer is a slicer software developed by eponymous 3D printer manufacturer, Prusa. It is based on the earlier open-source slicing software, named Slic3r, though compared to this software, some improvements have been made to meet the new needs of users…

As 3D printing becomes more widely used, and final parts become more readily available, there is an increasing need to assess the quality of parts designed through additive manufacturing. For that reason, researchers at Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU Singapore)…

3D softwares are an important part of 3D printing as they allow users to perform a number of critical tasks. Among these are modeling softwares which are used to design the parts that will be 3D printed. However, many of…