The metal 3D printing landscape is “Perfectly imperfect,” says research from IDTechEx. On one hand, the diversity in metal additive manufacturing technologies enables complex geometries and opens ...

Somerville, Massachusetts-based Studio 3e8 has introduced the Mesa 1, a desktop metal 3D printer with a built-in sintering ...

Researchers have come up with a 3D printing method using liquid metal that's claimed to produce structures at least 10 times faster than existing metal additive manufacturing processes, though it does ...

One broken screw can derail an entire manufacturing process. Run out of spares and you face a crisis if your supplier overseas needs six weeks to deliver new screws. However, if you have a metal 3D ...

Firearm suppressors, often called silencers, are having a breakout moment. Sales jumped 31% over the past year, according to the American Suppressor Association, with the number expected to surge in ...

At TCT Shenzhen, SnowX wasn’t showing a mockup. The SnowPod was mid-build on the booth table — a laser fusing 316L stainless ...

Everyone wants to 3D print with metals, but it is a difficult task. You need high temperatures and metals with high thermal conductivity make the problem even worse. Researchers at Caltech have a way ...

Welding is typically used to join two parts together, whether those parts be metal or plastic. There are various styles of welding, but we won’t go into those here. Casting is the act of pouring a ...

LPBF (Laser Powder Bed Fusion) involves spreading metal powder layer by layer and melting it with a laser. If defects are ...

The US Army VICTOR drone uses an optimized heavy-fuel rotary engine developed with metal 3D printing for rapid prototyping.

If you’ve seen both a fused filament fabrication (FFF) printer and a wire welder, you may have noticed that they work on a similar basic principle. Feedstock is supplied in filament form — aka wire — ...

Sacrificial parts are where a 3D printer really earns its keep.