We took a look at some of the strongest 3D printing materials, focusing on filaments for FDM, to see how they differ and ...

The answer is a mix of a historical choice, engineering tradeoffs, and an absolutely arbitrary consequence of what 3D printers actually do. Although filament-based 3D printers have been around for ...

If you’ve got a suitably high-end 3D printer, one solution to this problem is doing the supports in a water soluble filament; just toss the print into a bath and wait for the support to dissolve ...

Though the 3D printing hobby is jampacked with do-it-yourselfers, making your own filament is still out of reach for most ...

and filaments. Schedule your print time here 2024 Spring semester 3D Print schedule start times Monday - Friday (9 a.m.–4 p.m.) Although most prints have no monetary cost (print projects over 250 ...

This process pushes a plastic filament through a heated "print head" that extrudes molten plastic in thin layers to build your object. The main materials used for MPD 3D printing are ABS and PLA ...

The open-source Lemontron aims to fill that void by providing a printer that can be transported in an empty filament box. Getting your hands on this portable 3D printer ... a DIY guide by ...