The Digital Thread

See our recommendations for selecting 3D printing materials that are best suited to rapid prototyping. Find out which materials are most durable, cost-effective and commonly used to validate various types of products.

Rapid prototyping with 3D printing turns CAD files into physical parts in days, enabling fast testing and iteration. This blog shows how it accelerates product development and boosts competitiveness.

How to evaluate build direction, support structures, radii placement and wall thickness to optimise you design for 3D Printing

Adding to Protolabs’ available technologies for rapid prototyping and on-demand production, Carbon’s suite of software, hardware, and materials provides another production method for end-use parts.

3D printing offers a wealth of opportunities to iterate rapid prototypes for testing and more.

Explore the variables involved in calculating the cost of 3D-printed parts when using metal additive manufacturing technologies.

Unique products are amazing until parts break and you can’t obtain replacements. Enter 3D printing.

What does the future hold for 3D printing within the medical industry?

Using the field of Information Science to learn more deeply explore additive manufacturing.

A look at the key differences between Multi Jet Fusion and selective laser sintering and how to determine the optimal process for your application.

A look back at the last 40 years of 3D printing and how digital manufacturing has evolved.

Torn between 3D printing, CNC machining and Injection Moulding as a manufacturing process for your product? Learn how to pick the right process at Protolabs