Injection molded plastics have revolutionized design, innovation, and manufacturing in the 20th century. Before 1950, most products were manufactured in stamped steel, die-cast aluminum, zinc, and ...

One of the greatest advantages of designing plastic parts is the vast number of assembly options a designer can apply to his or her design. The most common among these options is the use of screws.

Injection-molded plastic part design is a lot like parenting. The job falls into your lap, you have zero qualifications, and yet, you are supposed to do it perfectly while blindfolded. It's difficult ...

Injection molding is a highly-engineered process that demands careful planning and attention to detail if the finished product is to achieve its full potential. The tips in this article should help ...

Designers of composite parts can choose from a huge variety of fiber reinforcements and resin systems. Knowledge of material properties is a prerequisite to satisfactory product design, but cost is a ...

Editor's Note: An updated version of this information can be found here. What exactly is computer-numerical-controlled (CNC) machining? It’s a means to make parts by removing material via high-speed, ...

One of the continuing struggles with FDM printing is making sure that parts that should fit together actually do. While adding significant tolerance between parts is an option, often you want to have ...

OpenSCAD has a lot of fans around these parts — if you’re unaware, it’s essentially a code-based way of designing 3D models. Instead of drawing them up in a CAD program, one writes a script that ...

Industrial transportation supplier Hutchinson (Paris, France) developed front and rear axles made from glass-reinforced composites for the Peugeot 208 FE, a hybrid electric concept car. The switch ...

NASA's generatively designed interplanetary lander, which debuted at Autodesk 2018. We’re only a handful of months away from the year 2020, and with the way parts look and tech acts, it finally feels ...