Have you ever experienced stress occasioned by normal broken keycaps in mechanical keyboards? For example, broken custom keycaps in a computer keyboard can be a source of real frustration! You may easily overcome the challenge of getting a repla

A knotted filament spool can be so annoying! Imagine the surprise of a tangled filament spool while you’re in the middle of printing. It can cause a print to fail if it happens often. It occurs regardless of its size, but if you store the filamen

When working with 3D printers, one of the most common issues that you may run into is filament sticking to your nozzle.  It’s important to prevent this from happening for several reasons. First and foremost, if the filament is stuck in your nozz

FDM and Resin printers are the two most common types of 3D printers currently available on the market for hobbyists and home 3D printing enthusiasts and, even though they both are 3D printers, they couldn’t be more different from each other. Knowing which one to get is something I fee

PETG is one of the most used polymers in 3D printing surpassed only by PLA. It is a modified version of the plastic that is used in soda bottles, for example. The modification makes it more suitable for 3D printers as it lowers its melting temperature and makes it easier to extrude. Compared to

If you decided to buy a 3D printer, you may be one of those hobbyists who find it exciting to invest money in printing and creating their own models in the comfort of their homes. Nowadays, there is a vast market for 3D printed items. Therefore, turning the costs emerging from buying, using,

Printing with wet filament is one of the most common and least analyzed causes of 3d printing failures. This article studies different options to remove moisture from filament spools and keep work material in the best of conditions, from solutions employed by professionals to available homemade

This article analyses 10 printer kits with different motion systems: Cartesian, Delta, and Core XY. For each kit, there is a summary of its specifications, a description of the features that distinguish it from the others, and information about its papers and post-sale support provided by the c

Regardless of the printer brand, all 3D printer users have experienced this particular problem at some point. This article analyses the different factors that can cause said issue and the solutions in each case. How can users fix the layer skip issue? Generally, it is a mechanical problem an

Since 3D printing has become very popular among hobbyists, there are many websites available to download models and print them with our printers without having any special knowledge in terms of modeling. For this reason, the most interesting websites and their advantages will be described below

A few years ago, designing machines and their parts required specialists in technical drawing who knew about rules and procedures to draw the desired objects. This was much more difficult for companies, which spent a lot of time and training on an unproductive activity. The advances in techn

3D printing is a detailed endeavor that involves many different components. One of the most important things for you to consider is which slicer software to use. Different slicer programs are suited to different tasks and finding one that is right for you can make 3D printing a lot easier and m

If you’re thinking of buying your first 3D printer or changing your old one, you don’t want to be distracted by its sound while it’s working. It is not uncommon to ask oneself: “How loud is this machine going to be?”  Well in general, there are a lot of factors to be taken into consider

Having a well-tuned slicer profile is crucial for succeeding in 3D printing. Although the number of different slicing parameters can be daunting, the most important ones aren’t really all that many and getting a hang of what each of those settings does will help you produce much better prints o

In 3D printing each new layer needs something underneath to stick to, it may be either the bed or a previous layer. Generally, it would be best to design a part to account for that limitation but there are supports when it isn’t possible. Supports are usually avoided because they use up more

Being able to edit models in your Slicer might come in handy, although there are other pieces of software out there that might be better suited for such a task. So, in this article, I will be doing my best to show you the limited ways there are of cutting & editing models in Cura, and wh

Working on some 3D printed pieces, you could face the challenge of having to reinforce them totally or locally in order to improve their strength and durability. It could be a whole part or a specific area subjected to some kind of load, such as compression, tension, shear, torsion, or bending.

ABS or Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene is a widely used polymer due to its physical properties and reduced costs. It is also one of the trickiest filaments of the consumer range to print with because it is prone to warping and delamination. It was widely used by the first DIY printers but now i

3D printing isn’t particularly a speedy process: Some small-ish models can take what feels like an eternity to print (I just printed a model that took 37 hours). But, is there a way to speed up the process, especially without a reduction in print quality? In this article, I will be goi

Altough I think I know my way around a 3d printer, it always scares me when a machine fails due to a potential hardware issue. In contrast to changing some obscure setting in the slicer, my heart tends to skip a beat when I’m dealing with mechanical and electrical parts. Sooner or late