3D printers are going mainstream, with some printers available for under $1,000 now. But XYZprinting's Da Vinci 1.0 AiO sets a new bar -- for a modest $799, the AiO is both a printer and 3D scanner.

The New York Times has a good articletoday that does a hands-on test of some 3D scanning and printing technologies. The Lego copies to the right were made by scanning the real Lego at the bottom of ...

A research team has found that island scanning, a printing scheme commonly used to prevent stresses from degrading or destroying 3D-printed metal parts, may not be a cure after all. Laser powder bed ...

3D printing may be one of the few technologies that actually holds a solid claim to the over-used adjectives "disruptive" and "world-changing," but its bulky hardware and complicated operation still ...

A few years ago, 3D scanners were primarily viewed as tools for high-end industries or specialized laboratories. They were expensive and often too complex for the average user. However, with ...

Cutting-edge 3D-scanning and 3D-printing technology are being used to preserve the legacy of a pair of German glassblowers, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, who documented plant and marine life more than ...