Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day. But ...

Have you ever imagined turning your ideas into physical objects with just a few clicks? Thanks to tools like Tinkercad, what once seemed like science fiction is now an accessible reality for anyone ...

When Amber Jae Slooten, the now-creative director of digital fashion house The Fabricant, was studying at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (Amfi) in 2013, she wanted to create digital-only clothes but ...

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 ...

Crafting 3D models presents various hurdles, including resource constraints, tight timelines, and collaboration gaps within teams. The intricacies of texturing and animating further extend the time ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Slant 3D] has a useful video explaining some thoughtful CAD techniques for designing 3D printed pins that don’t break and the concepts can be extended to similar features. Sure, one can ...

In layman’s terms, 3D printing is the process of processing and printing materials such that they have a tangible, physical presence—i.e., with length, width, and depth (three-dimensional). As opposed ...

In the darker corners of the Internet where search engines cannot go, black markets offer pistols, machine guns, even explosives — and most worrisome to security researchers, computer aided design, or ...