What Is Slicer Software and How Does it Enable 3D Printing? 3D printing, a type of additive manufacturing, works by creating objects layer-by-layer based on a digital computer-aided design (CAD) model ...

If you have ever felt like your 3D printer is capable of great things, but your slicer keeps getting in the way, OrcaSlicer is the reset button. It gives you the kind of control that serious tuning ...

Anisoprint (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) a manufacturer of continuous fiber 3D printing systems, has launched an update for its proprietary slicing software. The new and improved Aura 2.1 Premium is ...

As the years go by, folks will realize that 3D printing is the future because it’s very versatile. We’ve seen companies using the technology to create homes among other things, so we can see why many ...

D printing is getting less finicky in 2026. New materials, machines, and software are cutting setup times and making high-quality prints easier.

A new method 3D-prints large and complex parts more cheaply than current methods. “We have more tests to run to understand the strength and geometric potential of the parts we can make, but as long as ...

This article is the third part of a four-part series that examines some of the changes in 3D printing that have occurred in the past three years since my first articles on the subject. Because this is ...

It is no secret that the way you build things in your garage is rarely how big companies build things at scale. But sometimes new techniques on the production floor leak over to the hobby builder and ...

RS has added 3D print slicing as well as a ‘blend’ tool to its free DesignSpark Mechanical CAD package, raising it to Version 4.0. The slicing software – used to prepare files for layer-based 3D ...