Part smoothing for 3D printed parts, especially parts printed in ABS, has been around for a while. The process of exposing an ABS part to acetone vapor turns even low-resolution prints into smooth, ...

If you’ve ever used an extruding 3D printer, you know that the resulting prints aren’t exactly smooth. At the Southackton hackerspace [James] and [Bracken] worked out a method of smoothing the parts ...

I have been printing bungs for a Swiss ball – the big plastic exercise balls the size of a Space Hopper – from which the a friend lost the bung. It took three goes to get the size right – tapered fit, ...

One of the biggest issues that plague the desktop 3D printing world is a pesky nuisance known as warping. Warping is due to Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene plastic (or or ABS as it's commonly known) ...

3-D printers have progressed a lot in the past couple years, but still can't rival the output of injection-molding machines without violating expensive, patented post-processing techniques.

Sculpteo, the Paris-based company that does cloud-based 3D printing for consumers and companies like Staples, has launched a process that results in more finished-looking objects. Called the ...