We don’t have a 3D printer (yet), but did install and fire up the 3D Builder app from Microsoft. You can load your own 3D models or you can browse a handful of models from Microsoft.

I now use 3D builder on all my models to check for errors and to repair or ready them for the physical act of 3D printing. The design of 3D Builder is somewhat lacking.

Out today from Microsoft is a 3D-printing application called 3D Builder that will help the amateur set dig into 3D printing, provided that they 1) have a Windows 8.1 machine, and 2) have a Windows ...

Microsoft said the 3D Builder, the company's first 3D printing application for Windows 8.1, which lets you create almost anything, is available for free.

I made some mistakes learning how to use the $300 Elegoo Centauri Carbon 3D printer, but it didn't take me long to make my first part.

This is a small 3D printer. You could use it to print a tiny house for a model railroad layout. You need a massive machine to make a real house. (Tim Carter/Tribune Content Agency) ...

Dremel, the hand-tool manufacturer, started selling its Idea Builder 3D printers in 2014. At that time, the 3D-printer-in-every-pot hype was still high.