A Texas firm called Solid Concepts has announced it has successfully 3D-printed a gun in metal. The firm chose to print a working replica of a classic Browning 1911 pistol in order to prove how ...

Introducing metal 3D printing to the world as a viable solution for fully functional firearm prototypes. At http://www.solidconcepts.com you can learn more about the ...

For all the remarkable improvements we’ve seen in desktop 3D printers, metal printers have tended to stay out of reach for hackers, mostly because they usually rely on precise and expensive laser ...

Proto Labs recently expanded its U.S. manufacturing capacity by opening a 120,000 sq. ft. Raleigh, N.C., facility equipped with nearly 40 direct metal laser sintering printers, now capable of ...

Protolabs (PRLB) has significantly expanded its U.S. manufacturing capacity in 2025 in response to rising domestic demand for metal 3D-printed parts. The multi-pronged approach includes investing in ...

3D printing with metals has been around for a while now, but — just like 3D printing as a whole — it’s only just starting to seep through from industrial applications to consumer-friendly ones. In ...

At the level pursued by many Hackaday readers, the advent of affordable 3D printing has revolutionised prototyping, as long as the resolution of a desktop printer is adequate and the part can be made ...

Are you planning on producing metal parts? If this is the case, there are a couple of machining processes you could potentially employ. Requesting a CNC machining quote is a great example of this, but ...

Predictive sintering software under development to simplify binder jet 3D printing for metals Beta release of software for 316L stainless steel to be released in Q1 2020 Software will also refine ...

Germany-based companies, 3D-Micromac AG, a provider of laser micromachining systems, and EOS GmbH, an e-Manufacturing group, have teamed up to form a new organization dubbed 3D MicroPrint GmbH. The ...

New research out of McGill University on powder developed by materials science technology company, Equispheres, has major implications for mass production in additive manufacturing. OTTAWA, Ontario — ...