Frank is a social media journalist for the CDW family of technology magazine websites. 3D printing is becoming more common at schools across the world, but there's still a skills gap in using this new ...

Are you looking for 3D printer files for cool things to 3D print? Free 3D models of useful and practical (and some whimsical) 3D printable objects? Here are my favorites.

Let’s face it, 3D printing is still considered a hobby by many in the mainstream consumer tech space. We see toys and trinkets on Thingiverse (the first online repository of 3D models) or shared ...

Looking for your next 3D-printing project while roaming the streets just got a bit easier as MakerBot has released an iOS app for oogling creations in the Thingiverse. The free app allows users to ...

If you own a 3D printer and are looking for designs, there’s a good chance you’ve come across the Thingiverse library. Run by MakerBot, the company behind the Replicator line of 3D printers ...

MakerBot has revealed a tie-up with crowdsourced printing network 3D Hubs that aims to bring 3D printing to designers without their own dedicated machine.

A small 3D printing company called Just3DPrint has scraped a large portion of Thingiverse, Makerbot’s Creative Commons-based database of 3D models. The company then posted these models for sale ...

Stratasys has purchased MakerBot and Thingiverse, greatly expanding its price spectrum and the depth of its hold on the 3D printing industry.