Automotive companies leverage 3D printing for rapid prototyping, tooling, and low-volume production, while the consumer goods industry embraces personalized products and on-demand manufacturing.

3-D printing is an additive process—using CAD files, a 3-D printer applies very fine layers of resin, curing as it goes with UV light, until the model is complete. Some advanced printers can jet ...

End-use Industry (Aerospace & Defense, Medical & Dental, Automotive, Consumer Goods, Others), and Region - Global Forecast to ...

“Rapid prototyping will always be an advantage of 3D printing,” Hart says, “but it has now moved beyond that limited scope.

3D printing, or additive manufacturing, has become the most common method of prototyping. Printing a part is a relatively quick and inexpensive way to evaluate its design.

For years now, we've all watched as 3D printing—also often referred to as additive manufacturing for the way it layers materials to create a product—improved incrementally and became an important tool ...

We've already alluded to a few uses for 3D printing -- prototyping, making stuff at home -- but it's worth diving into some of the crazier things that 3D printing is capable of now, and what it ...

Designer and fabricator Vera Shur presented an experiment in developing a table, using 3D printing to create prototype hardware components. Find links to design and 3D printing files below. This ...

Prototyping the Future If you take away nothing else from this article, take away this: 3D printing’s greatest utility for medical device entrepreneurship lies in prototyping, not manufacturing.

Version 2.0 of RS Components' free 3D design software features new functionality, making the tool more powerful than ever before to support engineers in the rapid development of product concepts RS ...