"With the MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner, now everyone will be able to scan a physical item, digitize it, and print it in 3D – with little or no design experience." At this point, the Digitizer ...

Like many people, I have been preparing files for 3D printing using 3D modeling programs or downloading them from 3D model ...

[Maxzillian] sent in a pretty amazing project he’s been beta testing called ReconstructMe. Even though this project is just the result of software developers getting bored at their job, there’s a lot ...

One of Windows’ most historic applications—and one of Windows 10’s few remaining native desktop programs—is receiving a radical overhaul in the free Windows 10 Creators Update releasing next spring.

Start-up XYZPrinting today released its first all-in-one 3D printer, which uses a 3D laser scanner to replicate objects placed inside the machine. While other 3D printing companies sell handheld ...

July 19, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google When you need to scan an image, you use a regular scanner, but what do you do when you need to scan a 3D object?

There's a model of an odd-looking boat on a tabletop in front of me, and a woman is capturing it with her phone's camera. Only she's not just snapping a photo of the thing — she's moving around it, ...