3D printing can be a fun and productive hobby and skill, but there can be a lot of confusion around the files involved. Here are some you should know about.

For those just getting into 3D printing, whether as a hobby or a new profession, there are plenty of libraries out there for 3D printing files and models.

The diamond operator <> lets the while loop iterate over the input file (our G-code) line-by-line. In this example, we just print back the unchanged content of the G-code line.

So, unless someone takes the time to reverse engineer those parts and make 3D printable files for the rest of us, that's the end of it. Except that electronics maker GPD did just that.

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At the big 3D Print Week event last month in New York City, Hewlett-Packard (HP) alluded to a big announcement related to 3D Printing file formats. A week later, at the Build 2015 event, Microsoft ...

Like many people, I have been preparing files for 3D printing using 3D modeling programs or downloading them from 3D model repositories like Thingiverse. While this is an excellent and well-known ...