3D Printing Blog

If you want to save on printing time and see huge boosts in print strength, we recommend carving arcs out of the outer walls of your print. 

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PLA is really a fantastic material for many reasons. It is super rigid. It hardly warps. You can print in super high detail. The final part is tough, if printed right. It lends itself to post-processing like sanding and drilling. It is cheap. In a lot of ways, it’s an ideal engineering plastic for 3D printing. But it also has its failings. It's flammable, it can barely handle 35-40°C temperatures long-term, and it is the single hardest material of any to print, due to its properties before being melted in the hot end. The unmelted filament causes high friction in...

How the Promega lets you have a heated chamber for long and complex prints without limiting your ability to prototype and test changes quickly

Hi everyone, it’s time to explain exactly how printers differ in their accuracy and precision based on their selection of stepper motors, motor drivers, and driving voltage, and driving firmware. As you've may have seen lately, many people people are raving about quality improvements by switching from a stock electronic board to the Duet, which was the first board to use the German-produced Trinamic motor drivers.   Before we get into the details, it’s first important to understand how we define a good print as humans - and that is qualitatively.  The human eye can easily notice details typically down...