I have opportunities to handle CAD data at work, but the task of converting STEP files to STL or OBJ was quietly tedious. Some formats cannot be converted by the CAD software used in the office, and ...

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) has been around since the 1950s. The first graphical CAD program, called Sketchpad, came out of MIT (designworldonline.com). Since then, CAD has become essential to ...

Makerbot 3D printers were among the first to hit the market, so it makes sense that old and broken ones now litter the shelves of hackerspaces and home workshops alike. Rather than throw his one out, ...

Sometimes it’s important to keep the laser cutting machine in the shop happy by leaving pointy corners out of the design. In this article we discuss a method for creating a functional snapshot of a ...