Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi unpack how Ametek’s massive acquisition of FARO Technologies marks a turning point ...

Here are a three different intersections of 3D scanning, 3D printing, and CAD along with a few words on how well each can be expected to work.

Typically, after he finishes scanning a room with the Structure Sensor, a 3D scanner for mobile devices, Jeff Powers, chief executive officer of Occipital (the company behind Structure), gets a ...

For creating 3D printer files, your options include smartphone apps or expensive standalone scanners.

3D printers are becoming more and more accessible, but there’s still one big hurdle to using them: unless you know how to create digital objects, there’s not much to print. But Matterform is ...

MakerBot opened this year's SXSW in Austin by unveiling the MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner, a device intended to facilitate 3D printing on the company's flagship devices.

Got something you want to scan in 3D? It turns out you can use your iPhone with apps like Qlone, Scandy Pro, and Polycam, without any special hardware.

Still, it's hard not to be excited by the tremendous potential future for mainstream 3D scanning and printing that the Sense represents. Edgar Alvarez and Daniel Orren contributed to this report.