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Metal Plating of 3D Printed Parts – How to Do It
3D printing is a massive departure from traditional manufacturing techniques. It’s faster in most cases, cheaper than subtractive manufacturing, and capable of recreating more complex designs. However,...
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Do PLA Prints Have an Expiration Date?
PLA is one of the most popular filaments used in 3D printing. Cheap and easy to use, a unique benefit of printing with PLA is that it’s often described as a biodegradable material. Considering that it...
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How to Estimate 3D Printing Time
3D printing offers a lot of advantages as a manufacturing process, but a quick turnaround time is not one of them. Building something layer by layer typically takes longer than cutting a design out of...
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How to Make Files for 3D Printing
While there’s a huge database out there of free models for 3D printing, it still feels very limiting to rely on these all the time. If you have an idea for a model that would make a good 3D printing...
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What to Do If You Run Out of Filament Mid-Print
It’s not uncommon for a 3D printing project to take up to 12 hours (or more) to finish. For this reason, it’s virtually impossible for you to keep watch over a 3D printing project for the entire time...
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3D Printing with Clay Filament
3D printing technology may have made huge strides in the last decade, but most 3D printing processes are still limited to using plastic-based raw materials. While plastic has great workability, it’s...
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Should Your 3D Printer Have A Filament Run-Out Sensor?
When a 3D printing project takes up the better part of a day (or even more), there’s a very good chance that your spool will run out of filament mid-print. This would not be a problem if you happen to...
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3D Printing in Popular Culture
As a testament to how popular 3D printing has become, its technology has found its way to popular culture. Just like any other novel piece of technology, 3D printing has featured prominently in some...
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Is PLA-F Filament Any Good?
Through the years, one fact about filament-based 3D printing remains – that it is a landscape ruled by PLA and ABS. As two of the most popular filaments, most 3D printing professionals know very well...
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CoreXY 3D Printers – How Are They Different from Cartesian 3D Printers?
The most common type of 3D printer today and the one that most people are familiar with are Cartesian-based FDM printers. These printers extrude plastic filament through a print head that moves along...
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Cardboard Spool Vs. MasterSpool – Which is More Sustainable?
FDM technology has played a huge role in making 3D printing more accessible than ever. Filament-based 3D printers are cheap, easy to learn, and make use of similarly inexpensive plastic filament as raw...
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How to Make Watertight 3D Prints
We often see free STL files for 3D printing pots for plants or containers for food and drink. What many of these files fail to mention is that these projects aren’t usable unless they are watertight....
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Heat Creep in 3D Printing – What It Is and How to Avoid It
Many of the usual problems in 3D printing can manifest right before your very eyes, making them fairly easy to diagnose. However, other problems are less visible and undetectable until they create much...
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How to Weld PLA Parts
Contrary to how 3D printing is shown in the movies, there is often a lot of post-processing work that needs to be done before a 3D printed project is deemed presentable. A 3D print can have a rough...
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Pros and Cons of Upgrading to An All-Metal Hot End
3D printing enthusiasts are no strangers to tinkering with their 3D printers to make upgrades here and there. These upgrades are made to enhance a printer’s overall performance, make them easier to...
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Biofilaments for 3D Printing – What They Are and Where to Buy
If there’s a persistent flaw in the 3D printing process, it’s that it relies exclusively on plastic as raw material. This have given 3D printing a pretty bad rap, especially in today’s more...
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How to Design Parts for SLA Printing
Slowly but surely, SLA 3D printing is starting to gain the levels of popularity of FDM. More and more people are now more comfortable getting over the difficulty hump of SLA printing to realize the...
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How to Avoid Getting your 3D Printing Filaments Tangled
How frustrating would it be to have a ruined 3D printing project because of an entangled filament spool? There are probably hundreds of long-time 3D printing professionals who can answer that question....
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What to Do with Your 3D Printing Scraps
There’s no going around the fact that you will inevitably end up with a pile of scrap when you go into 3D printing. Most of us probably have a bin in our workshops that is progressively getting filled...
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10 3D Printed Tools to Enhance Productivity When Working From Home
During this past year, many people have shifted to working from home because of the pandemic. Most of these people have also discovered that working from home is not as easy as they had imagined....
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