The Oscar statuettes you saw on the Academy Awards were made thousands of miles from Hollywood, in New York's Hudson valley.

This tutorial on how to cast metal parts from 3D printed silicone molds is a perfect example of how useful a 3D printer can be when you are looking to make a custom and durable metal part at home.

Now the folks at FormLabs have turned the whole ‘casting metal and 3D printer’ thing on its head: they’re printing sacrificial molds to cast pewter. There are two techniques demonstrated in ...

For the better part of the last decade, they've been made at Urban Art Projects in Orange County ... The process begins with a mold, then a wax copy. Then from wax to the ceramic shell, 12 ...