That's exactly why I decided to help out fellow 3D printing beginners with fixes to some common issues that most people face when 3D printing for the first time.

A research team has found that island scanning, a printing scheme commonly used to prevent stresses from degrading or destroying 3D-printed metal parts, may not be a cure after all.

The first 3D printing process, known as stereolithography (SLA), was invented by Charles Hull in 1984 when he used ultraviolet lasers to solidify layers of photopolymer resin.

Unlike traditional paper printing, 3D printing creates three-dimensional objects by using code to print thousands of layers. kovaciclea/Getty Images ...