Luis Baldez, 3MF Consortium’s executive director, explains how the 3D printing specification will support a volume-based description. The 3MF Consortium recently announced their latest volumetric ...

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 ...

STL format is ancient in computer terms, as it was first released in 1987 by 3D systems. STL files were designed with additive manufacturing in mind, translating design data, typically NURBS or BREP ...

The 3MF Consortium, which released its free initial core specification last year for a new 3D printing file format, has added two free extensions based on best practices. One makes it easier for ...

Last year, Microsoft launched the 3MF Consortium, a powerful cadre of businesses seeking to create a 3D file format with the potential to be universally used across both 3D printing platforms and 3D ...

The 3MF Consortium (3MF) ratified and released its Beam Lattice Specification Extension to its 3MF Core Specification. The 3MF Beam Lattice extension is a new method for storing and transferring ...