In the continuing battle against 3D printers used exclusively for fabricating plastic octopodes and useless trinkets, here’s yet another installment of a Making A Thing tutorial. If you’ve ever wanted ...

3D printing is rapidly gaining popularity and has reached the point where you can now use 3D printing technologies at home! Like many people interested in this new advance in technology, you might not ...

For a company best known for being the maker of high-end software used in construction projects (NYC's Freedom Tower), industrial design (Tesla cars), and blockbuster Hollywood special effects (Avatar ...

3D printing is rapidly gaining popularity and has reached the point where you can now use 3D printing technologies at home! Like many people interested in this new advance in technology, you might not ...

The free 123D suite of apps from Autodesk just got a lot better with the release of 123D Design 1.7. 123D Design is perhaps the key app in Autodesk’s free suite of 3D apps as it is the one where full, ...

Windows: You've got easy access to a regular printer any time you need one, but not everyone has a MakerBot or other 3D printer on their desk, and the learning curve for designing printable 3D objects ...

One of the biggest challenges new 3D printing users face is getting comfortable with the idea of 3D design. To many people, using a 3D CAD (computer-aided design) program seems completely out of reach ...

Autodesk 123D Design is a free* 3D modelling tool that allows users to create a digital model and then 3D print it, whether on the iPad, Mac, PC or via their web browser. The software uses natural ...

Beyond the ever-dropping cost of 3D printers themselves, one of the biggest perceived barriers of entry to 3D printing is the supposed difficulty of the design process. And, make no mistake: if you're ...

Software giant AutoDesk took a big plunge into the 3D consumer space by releasing 123D Design, a very user-friendly 3D modeling tool. The software is available for iPad, Mac or PC and also directly on ...