3D printing makes prototyping wonderful. But what do you do when your plastics of choice just aren’t strong enough? For [Michael Memeteau], the answer was to combine the strength of a vacuum-poured ...

Have you ever played with Rose’s metal? It’s a fusible alloy of bismuth, lead, and tin with a low melting point of around 100 °C. Historically, it’s been used as a solder for cast iron railings and ...

Angstrom Group has acquired San Francisco-based Mantle Inc., a pioneer in metal 3D printing for injection mold tooling, in a ...

A 3D-printing company plans to print large objects such as boat molds and components as it transitions research performed at the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center into a ...

Precast concrete is used in building construction and produced by pouring the material into a reusable mold. For decades, these molds have been made from wood — a technique that requires a highly ...

Aiming to combat labor shortages, Lyons Industries has been gradually installing automated processes to replace the traditionally labor-intensive spray-up process for its fiberglass composite bathtubs ...

Watch what happens when 3D printed PLA molds are put to the test—and why this attempt ended in failure! Learn from the mistakes, see the unexpected results, and get tips for future DIY projects. #3DPr ...

New animal-tracking tags are cast from 3D-printed molds to better conform to animals’ bodies. 3D printing makes the complex organic shapes no costlier to build than plain geometric parts. New ...