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Flow Calibration Guide: Extrusion Adjustment for Perfect Prints
Optimize your 3D prints' dimensional accuracy, surface quality, and mechanical strength with flow rate calibration. Single wall cube test, filament-based settings, and slicer configurations.
Brim, Raft, and Skirt: When to Use Them? A Guide to Adhesion Aids
Learn the differences between brim, raft, and skirt. Discover when to use each, their pros and cons, slicer settings, and a practical decision guide.
Support Structure Optimization: Easy Removal and Clean Surface Guide
Guide to optimizing support structures. Covers tree, organic, paint-on supports, interface layers, soluble materials, and techniques to reduce support needs.
Multi-Color Printing Issues and Solutions Guide
Problems and solutions encountered in multi-color 3D printing. AMS, MMU, ERCF systems, color transition contamination, purge tower optimization, and filament compatibility.
PETG Printing Problems and Solution Guide: From Stringing to Adhesion
All problems encountered in 3D printing with PETG filament and their solutions. Stringing, excessive bed adhesion, moisture sensitivity, retraction settings, and optimal print parameters.
Guide to Reduce Z-Seam Visibility
Comprehensive guide to minimize visible Z-seams in your 3D prints. Detailed explanation of seam position, coasting, wiping, and slicer settings.
Slicer Guides
Learn your slicer with calculators, simulations and step-by-step troubleshooting tools.
Cura Slicer
Flow calculations and troubleshooting
Orca Slicer
Calibration and settings dictionary
Bambu Lab
X1C, P1P, P1S, A1 expert guide
PrusaSlicer
Layer settings and support structures
Guides
Raspberry Pi OS Installation Guide
Explore a Debian-based, high-performance ecosystem optimized for the ARM architecture.
Orca Slicer: Mastery Guide - From Beginner to Advanced
Combining PrusaSlicer's power with Bambu Studio's modern interface, Orca is more than a slicer; it's a vendor-agnostic optimization hub.
Klipper Macro Collection: Professional Setup Guide with jschuh/klipper-macros
Go beyond basic macros! jschuh/klipper-macros offers optimized bed mesh, smart bed surface management, layer triggers, and professional PRINT_START phases. A complete guide from installation to slicer settings.
Let Your 3D Printer Watch You: Error Detection with Obico and AI (Final Chapter)
What do you say to an assistant that will warn you when your prints turn into spaghetti? We are adding 'eyes' and a 'brain' to your printer by installing Obico on Klipper. A guide to remote monitoring and AI error detection.
Klipper Automation: The Power of START_PRINT and END_PRINT Macros (Part 4)
Forget those complex start codes in your slicer. Add smart features to your printer with Klipper macros. Start_Print, End_Print and filament change (M600) settings are here.
Cura Slicer: Master Guide - From Beginner to Advanced
Comprehensive settings guide to maximize 3D print quality with Ultimaker Cura.
3D Printing News
Limitless Labs Raises $20 Million in Series A Funding for Agentic CAD
Limitless Labs has raised an additional $20 million for its agentic CAD/CAM platform, bringing its total funding to date to $27.3 million. Investors in the Series A round include Dell Technologies Capital, Square Peg, Grove Ventures, Meron Capital, and Kinetica. Limitless Labs CEO David Priev said, “The manufacturing world doesn’t just need more automation, it needs a better way to capture and scale the expertise that still lives inside the heads of a relatively small number of experienced machinists. We built Limitless Labs to work inside the CAD/CAM systems manufacturers already use, helping teams standardize best practices, reduce programming bottlenecks, and free senior programmers to focus on the hardest work, without giving up control. We believe the next major AI platform will be built for the physical world, and that starts with giving manufacturers a way to scale their best knowledge across every new part and every new engineer.” Yair Snir, Managing Direct
Zellerfeld Buys Volumental
Volumental is a Swedish 3D scanning company that has created, over the past decade, a scan-to-fit solution for use in stores. The company has worked with sports retailers and shoe brands such as New Balance and Hoka to make a shoe-fit solution. You can go to a store, scan your feet, and you’ll have the absolute right size. Then, afterward, you can always order from that brand to get the right-sized shoe. I used the engine once in a store, Bever, to buy hiking boots and was impressed with its speed and efficiency. The tool pointed my salesperson to narrowing down specific Meindl boots based on my foot shape. Others would not be comfortable given my high arch, saving the salesperson and me a lot of time. I really liked that as an experience. Their FitEngine uses AI to generate the right fit and can also be used at home through phones. And that sizing solution I used once to buy a pair of Hokas online. This helped me go through with my purchase because I would be more confident that
MIT Team 3D Prints Low-Cost Nozzle Arrays for Layered Drug-Delivery Particles
Researchers at MIT have shown that a complex class of microscopic nozzle, normally built only inside semiconductor cleanrooms, can be produced in a matter of hours using 3D printing. The devices, known as triaxial electrospray emitters, generate microscopic droplets made of three separate fluid layers, droplets that can harden into structured microparticles for uses ranging…
Stockwell Integrates Silicone 3D Printing to Accelerate Customer Validation
Stockwell Elastomerics, a Philadelphia-based silicone manufacturer, has incorporated silicone 3D printing into its operations through Lynxter’s S300X platform, cutting prototype validation timelines from weeks to days and eliminating the material compromises that have long limited additive manufacturing in elastomers. A Century-Old Manufacturer Adds an Additive Layer Stockwell Elastomerics has spent more than 100 years in…
Talleres Artificio Adopts SHINING 3D Scanning to Cut Inspection Times
Talleres Artificio, a mechanical engineering firm based in Chile, has incorporated SHINING 3D‘s FreeScan Trak Nova into its inspection workflow for mining equipment, a move the company says has halved the time needed for certain ball mill inspections while improving the quality of the dimensional data its engineers work from. The firm, which employs a…
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3D Baskılı El Krank Jeneratör - Acil Durum Telefon Şarj Cihazı
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3D Baskili Drone Govdesi - FPV Racing Drone
FPV racing drone govdesi tamamen 3D yazici ile basildi. Yazici olarak Bambu Lab X1C, filament olarak PETG-CF kullandim. ...
Mekanik Klavye Kasasi - Ozel Tasarim 65 Percent
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Reviews
Flashforge Adventurer 5X Review: Enclosed Chamber Comfort at CoreXY Speeds
The Flashforge Adventurer 5X boasts 600mm/s max speed, CoreXY kinematics, a fully enclosed chamber, HEPA filtration, quick-swap nozzle, and an internal camera. We reviewed this printer with a 220x220x220mm build volume and broad filament support from PLA to PC.
Bambu Lab H2C Hotend Review: Opening the Door to Carbon Fiber Printing
The Bambu Lab H2C hardened steel all-metal hotend is a powerful upgrade for carbon fiber and engineering filaments. Its bi-metallic heatbreak design, resistant up to 300°C, offers superior performance with abrasive materials like PA-CF and PET-CF.
Bambu Lab H2D Hotend Review: Flawless Surface Quality with Diamond Coating
The Bambu Lab H2D, with DLC coating, minimizes nozzle friction for superior surface quality and reduced stringing. Ideal for silk and metallic filaments, it's designed for perfectionists.
Creality K2 Plus Review: A New Contender in the CoreXY Giants' Race
The Creality K2 Plus stands out with its 350mm cube print volume, 600mm/s max speed, and Klipper firmware. We reviewed this printer, which redefines the price/performance balance in the CoreXY segment, in full detail.
Bambu Lab P2S Review: The New Standard for Affordable Premium 3D Printing
The Bambu Lab P2S builds on the success of the P1S, raising the bar in the affordable premium segment with Lidar calibration, AMS support, HEPA filtration, and 500mm/s speed. Here are all the details.
Bambu Lab X1 Carbon Review: King of Professional 3D Printing?
We intensively tested the Bambu Lab X1 Carbon for 3 months. With features like CoreXY kinematics, Lidar-based calibration, multi-color printing with AMS, and carbon fiber support, is this printer truly the leader of the professional segment? All details in this review.
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