The Form 2's print quality is superior to that of any 3D printers I've reviewed. Its printed objects look just like those you buy from a store, with a smooth surface and great details.

These include powder bed 3D printing (which drops powder that is then fused in form), laminated object manufacturing (which glues sheets of material together and then cuts them to form), directed ...

Printing detailed objects The first object I printed with the Form 1+ was a paper clip in the shape of company’s butterfly logo. I downloaded it from the company’s pre-approved .STL model website.

Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2503088122 Shading brings 3D forms to life, beautifully carving out the shape of objects around us.

We continue our DIY-IT discovery series on 3D printing by exploring how to download and print 3D objects from the Internet. If you can download a file, and you have a little patience, you can do this.

While each individual layer of infill looks like a series of triangles and irregular hexagons, when assembled into a printed 3D object, this infill forms a true 3D structure.

Researchers in Heidelberg and Tübingen now demonstrate how to form a 3D object from smaller building blocks in just a single step. “We were able to assemble microparticles into a three-dimensional ...

January 16, 2020 Scanned images of normally-deposited layers within a 3D-printed object (left) alongside layers printed utilizing the new technique Optical Media Interface Lab, NAIST View 1 Images ...

In their previous studies Peer Fischer and colleagues showed how to form ultrasound using acoustic holograms – 3D-printed plates, which are made to encode a specific sound field. Those sound ...