Some readers may consider that a revolting oversimplification, but it is a helpful one to make a point about how 3D scanning, 3D printing, and CAD work do (and don’t) work together.

Electric Rain Inc. has released Swift 3D LW Version 2.0, a plug-in for LightWave 3D that enables users to render scenes in the SWF file format. It creates vector and raster-based output, and ...