This adaptability is what makes 3D printing an appealing way to keep essential tools within arm’s reach. A sanding block is crucial for wood, plastic, and metalworkers. By printing your own ...

Some types of tooling can be 3D printed, and it turns out that printed tools are not only fast and economical, but can be surprisingly resilient. You can see such tools in action in our earlier ...

With 3D printed arms of fixed measurements, the depth reading from a set of digital calipers can be used to calculate the radius of a curve. Specialized tools that focus on one particular job tend ...

A group of researchers from Canada’s University of Western Ontario has developed and tested 3D-printed mounting mechanisms for the wood racking of PV modules. The open-source designs ...