3D printing can be a fun and productive hobby and skill, but there can be a lot of confusion around the files involved. Here are some you should know about.

3D printed files are used to create tangible objects from digital files. Find out more about the benefits and uses of 3D printed files for visually impaired people.

At the big 3D Print Week event last month in New York City, Hewlett-Packard (HP) alluded to a big announcement related to 3D Printing file formats. A week later, at the Build 2015 event, Microsoft ...

Prusa declares open hardware 3D printing dead, blaming China’s subsidies, patent imbalance, and disputes transformed ...

Students will learn to use 3D printing software and to make or modify their own 3D models. Students will be able to produce custom STL files using CAD software. There are also plans to provide a ...

Disarming Corruptor distorts 3D printing files for sharing of banned items Algorithm scrambles, unscrambles vertex positions of STL files.

A drone enthusiast released 3D-printable designs for a nearly identical clone of DJI's Inspire 1 drone -- the company's flagship quadcopter.

London designer Matthew Plummer-Fernandez has developed a piece of software that allows users to visually corrupt 3D-print files so they can't be recognised on file-sharing sites. Matthew Plummer ...

D printing has opened up whole new avenues of creativity, for anything from simple tools to complex devices, but are there ...

Video If 3D printing companies and government agencies hope to police the spread of dangerous or pirated digital shapes, their task is about to get much more complicated. Late last month Matthew ...