[Stefan] is always looking for a way to make stronger and better 3D prints. His latest experiments involve using a texture on thin plastic parts to increase stiffness. You can see the texture patte… ...

Plastic sheets perform auto-origami. By Tom Simonite. ... For example, a flower-like pattern produces a sphere, a triangle becomes a tetrahedron and a flat cross shape folds into a cube.

And Dimension Walls from MDC are durable, 3D-designed polymer thermoplastic sheets (available in 4-foot by 8-foot and 4-foot by 10-foot sheets) offering near limitless pattern options like cracked ...

Every year, about 11 million metric tons of plastic end up in our oceans. That’s more than 30 Empire State Buildings of imperishable waste harming marine life, strangling sea birds, and washing ...