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 ...

In the beginning, there was the stereolithography file, commonly called the STL file. Although not very complex—it was essentially a collection of triangles—the STL provided a way to get data into ...

One can choose from a number of file formats for 3D printing, and in general they all work fine. However, understanding what mesh resolution is needed for each part can affect the size of the file, ...

A 3D slicer is one of the essential tools that every 3D printing enthusiast needs in their arsenal. After designing your ...

"Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware and operating systems," as quoted from Wikipedia. The original ...

Crawford Technologies has released today its new Ink Jet Print Data Stream (IJPDS) transforms, allowing organizations to print many different print file formats on their IJPDS printers. IJPDS is a ...