For all the remarkable improvements we’ve seen in desktop 3D printers, metal printers have tended to stay out of reach for hackers, mostly because they usually rely on precise and expensive ...

Generally, 3D metal printers work by laying down a bed of metal alloy powder, then sintering it with an electron beam or a laser in a pattern based on a digital file.

Desktop Metal's Live Sinter software now offers sintering simulation with scan-based adjustments to make metal 3D printing even more accessible.

Companies building next-generation products and breakthrough technologies are often limited by the physical constraints of ...

Around 2015, headlines about 3D printing reached a fever pitch. But here we are, a few years later and not a headline is in sight. 3D printing’s superhero era has given way to practical use ...

Novel solution: Tey’s 3D metal printer uses a proprietary formulation to print articles from stainless steel, alumina, copper and silicone without the need for high-energy enclosures.

3D printers are slowly becoming a bigger part of our lives thanks to its speed and needing fewer resources. But just how do these printers work?

After settling on a design, the researchers used a 3D-printing technique called direct metal laser sintering, in which lasers melt and fuse together a metal powder (in this case, an aluminum alloy ...

Kerry Stevenson, aka "General Fabb" has written over 8,000 stories on 3D printing at Fabbaloo since he launched the venture in 2007, with an intention to promote and grow the incredible technology of ...

This iterative design process determines not only the shape of the component to be produced by the 12-laser, powdered-metal sintering "printer" but also the ideal alloy it's made of.

Desktop Metal's sawdust-printing outfit allows individual designers and large manufacturers to print elaborate wooden objects.