Now the folks at FormLabs have turned the whole ‘casting metal and 3D printer’ thing on its head: they’re printing sacrificial molds to cast pewter. There are two techniques demonstrated in ...

It might be faster to just cast copies by using the 3D printed model to make a mold. [Micah] found himself in this situation and managed to cast one copy every 10-12 minutes using the mold seen above.

In Houston, a giant printer is building what designers say is the first 3D-printed two-story house in the U.S. The machine has been pouring a concrete mix from a nozzle, one layer at a time ...

Lyons says that creating tooling and support fixtures is one of the longest and most labor-intensive parts of the process, so the company began investigating 3D printing systems to directly print high ...

A team in Guatemala have used 3D printing technology to create an earthquake-proof house in just 26 hours. It’s not the first time that a house has been 3D-printed; the team behind the project ...