3D Printing Today: Recent Episodes

Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

Dr, Andy Cohen, with 28 years in the high tech industry, and Master Craftsman Whitney Potter both use 3D Printing, 3D capture and 3D Design professionally. These guys dig through all the hype to reveal the real value in what is happening today in the exciting world of 3D Printing. They discuss topics such as how to tune, upgrade and maintain your desktop factory, capturing physical objects into virtual 3D space, how to develop your own designs for 3D Printing, developing businesses related to 3D Printing and all the latest innovations. Each episode includes current events, 3-5 technically focused segments, and a "Thing of the week". The show also includes guest segments from luminaries and specialists including Emmett Lalish, Brook Drumm and lots of others across this incredible new Profession... ? Industry... ? Hobby... ?

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Mixing PLA with PETG, Printing Shoes

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Micro LiDAR Sensor Clean, CO2 Meter Case, Plastic Electric trucks

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F360 Quirks, Fusion Tip from listener, Non Bambu filament in the AMS

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X1C update, Filament Choices for Closed Vs Open Source, End of de minimus

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X1C Printing my own stuff, Reworking Fusion 360 models, Watch out for tall and thin

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PCTG For crystal-like esthetic, X1C wiping , Adventures in Caving LiDAR

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More Tariff talk, Making a LiDAR scanner Pt2, X1C First prints

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Making a LIDAR scanner Pt 1, X1C Unbox and Setup, Tariff impacts

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XL does something unexpected, Adaptive Cubic Vs Support Cubic Infill, Chinese are catching up to Polyjet

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Designing for screws, Stress Concentrators, Moon Dust Filament

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Background checks for 3D Printers, Nozzle wiping, Competition between Chinese Companies

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Using nonsticking material in dense support, Heatup Frustrations, Why Up Vs Z Up in Fusion 360

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News:

Ultimaker Vs Bambu speed trials and Bambu rumors

Segments:

Bambu H2D Release

Thing of the Week:

SD card storage box

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1043557-sd-card-storage-box#profileId-1028826

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Single-material Full Contact Support, Polydye, PLA Durability over time

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Fibers on the build plate, The limits of FDM, Billion Dollar Bambu

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3D Printer for a blind person, Boolean Edits in PrusaSlicer, The Benefit of repeated production

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4 Axis 3D Printer, Traveling speed

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Tips for full contact support, Diagnosing a print fail, AI Generated models

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Roadkill, Regular maintenance, Zortrax, Color faves

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Showing off Full Contact result, Looking for the strongest filament, Diagnosing a print fail

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Hard Vs Flexible Build Plates, Troubleshooting PETG , New Printers from the “Print The Legend” companies

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Anti-Polymer Zeitgeist, 3D Printing Switches, Combining Objects in Prusaslicer

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Gear Bearing, Simplify3d, rabbit in the hat, Vapor polishing

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Replicator/Flashforge upgrades 1, Metal Spray, Rafts, XT

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Deep Mesh water marking, Annealing HTPLA, Tariffs anyone?

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BVOH, Viscous Lithography, Autodesk can dump your F360 files

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Impact of Updates, Printing Speeds, Shelf Curling

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Understanding your own requirements, Organic supports in full contact , Greengate3D

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Repeat from 2014

The hobby printer landscape, Stick Vs Release, How would you invest?, Nozzle slips

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MakerBot and Flashforge, PCTG First try, Don’t Discount the build

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Full Contact Support an essential requirement, PLA over time, Enclosures

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Getting Rid of 3D Printers, Gantry Sliding, Troubleshooting patterns

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Ultimaker/Raise3D Gantry is obsolete, Regular Maintenance, Field Camera Project

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Dipping your Filament, PA6-GF, More eBay Gold

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ASA, Makerbot Cupcakes?, Infill Types

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Centrifugal 3D Printing, Our Choices, Inline filament drying

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Colored Lettering, Knife Edge Microcope adapter, Makerworld

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Lego and ABS, Corner lifting, XL Enclosure

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What sticks to what, Shrinking, Proforge KS Campaign

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Filament Drying, Limits of Armadillo , BeatBuddy Switch project

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3D Toolpaths Vs Multi-axis, Discover Thingiverse, The trick to Hueforge

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Auto Pauses on the XL, Sketch Drawing quirk in Fusion360, Don’t make Dragons

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Sharing sites lately, Stuck Sensors on the XL, Sketch Drawing quirk in Fusion360

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STEP Sample prints, Conditional GCODE, Another rabbit hole

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Polishing a Turd, TPU Supports, STEP Technology

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Use case for TPU, Budget 3D Printer with PVC Pipes, ABS Rant

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To upload a design or not, Freezing to dry, HX Stomp Accessories

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Solid splashes, CES 2014, Nozzle clogs

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The paradox of updating Firmware, Moisture Activated Filament, The two ways to print color in FDM

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Petg Issue with support, PLA Sylk stuff, Bad Filament, More issues with Paint-on color

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3D Printers that faded and some that are starting to., New Immersive Tech, Gun debate yet again.

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Unavoidable defects, Lobo’s CnC design contest, Market for Used Printers, The issue of Technical dependency via WAN

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High end industrial machines auction, Part curling, Coasting

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Is this our 3D Printing future?, The limits of paint on color in Prusaslicer, Standby Temperature

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VisionPro, Object that just cant be printed... yet., Scarf joint seams

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CAD UI Rust, Nextruder, VisionMiner’s IDEX

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Must you learn gcode?, Fusion 360 Gripe, PrusaSlicer Infill issue

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Should you secure the lead screw top, Voron Toolchanger, Armadillo TPU

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Making full contact support in Blender, Prusa XL prints TPU, The down side to the automation in the XL

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Making full contact support in Fusion360, Paint on limitations in PrusaSlicer, Hollowing

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Current draw for limit stop, Full contact support alternative in PrusaSlicer, Glueing TPU

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A slight problem with an XL nozzle scrtubber, Are we aiding and abetting?, Printing 4 colors on an IDEX

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PrusaSlicer does not actually support mulitple materials, Making ornaments on the XL, Making 3D Parts 2D

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Multicolor PETG on the XL, Speed Vs Accuracy and the melt zone., Hemera XS/Revo E3D toolchanger mount

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Nextruder Temperature, Printing Baubles, When 3mf is not z good way to go

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Prusa’s Problems, Why is all the stuff kinda useless?, Hemera XS/Revo

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XL and translucent PETG, Rebuild or Replace, Frankenprinter

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XL Speed, Kits, What moisture actually does to filament

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News:

Cuts at Desktop Metal

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/desktop-metal-announces-staff-cuts-as-part-of-latest-cost-reduction-plan-227886/

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XL Nozzle, Spool Joining, How to make money

Thing of the Week:

Soft Tape Measure Spool

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6445721

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XL Testing Update, Perfecting TPU, On a Mission

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The XL as a Toolchanger , Printing HueForge pictures, Making Empowerment

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Bowden on a Bedslinger, HueForge, Prusa’s real strength

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News:

ISO std for 3D Printed buildings

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/iso-astm-529392023-published-a-new-standard-for-construction-3d-printing-226929/

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Dual Guitar Stand Spacer, Standardizing Filament Colors , The dangers of Haribo, We’ve come a long way

Dual Guitar Stand Spacer

Standardizing Filament Colors

The dangers of Haribo

Thing of the Week:

The Bookshark Bookmark

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6261415

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CR-30 Revisit, End of service notice from SSYS , Prusa XL First prints with PETG

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Open Drone Map, Printer Design , No stl?

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The Dark Side of 3D Printing, Multicolor PLA prints on the Prusa XL, Faking Auto-pilot

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Prusa XL first prints with PLA, Drone Photogrammetry SW, Power Restore Problem

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Burnt Titanium, Intro to Drone based Photogrammetry, Battling Plastic Bots

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Printing pins, Should Belt printers be IDEX, Looking for a long gone 3D Printer

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Nylon 910; King of filaments, Our technique for 3D Printing Food, String Trimmer Head

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Prusa XL Unboxing, Pruse XL Extruder installs, Prusa XL First Prints PLA

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XL Shipping Problem, Using Variable layer heights, Spool to spool reliability and consistency

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The Problem with a one shot print, Full contact support example, The significant negatives in parting a print

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Printing in a Cold Garage, Hardware Vs Software, A 3D Printer in Every Home

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WobbleX, Kludge Design, Amorphous Vs Crystalline

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XL and Bambu Angst, Anycubic Kobra Go, Programmed pauses

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AnyCubic Kobra Bargain, Massive Dimension MDAC1, Starving for Nylon

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Sonic Pad Unbox, Printing  Non-planar, Taulman Vs Braskem

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Defextiles, Turning plastic into food, Mintion Beagle Cam

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E3D Announcement, Dealing with Gravity, Things that are hard to print

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Weird 3D Benchy prints, The competiton between Bambu and Prusa, Terran 1 Inflection point for 3D Printing

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Raft Problem, The downside of glass plates, Computational HydroGraphic Printing

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News:

3D Models from 2D Video

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/nvidia-ai-produces-3d-models-from-2d-videos-3d-printing-applications-forthcoming-222532/

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Is Mulit-material 3D Printing really a big deal?, Ai in 3D Printing, Weird 3D Benchy prints

Thing of the Week:

Ant-Weight Battlebots

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6039708

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6034521

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5275686

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5851354

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Machines that do Full Contact supports, 3D Printing in the Media, Chemist Guide to 3D Printed Cuisine

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The Nines of Reliability, Full Contact Supports, PrusaSlicer Tree Supports

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Lined Heatbreak in the toolchanger, Fan Control in S3D V5, Will we really see a Prusa TC?

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Input Shaping misundertanding, JawsTec, Wikifactory

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Still trying to elimnate prime/wipe, Bambu Vs Prusa Tirade, Switching to .6mm nozzles

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Dense Support per Slicer, Should we buy a Bambu?, Teflon-Lined extruders

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PETG/PLA Dense Support, Bambu Extruder, Ideas for printing in Zero G

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S3D V5 Dissapointments, Christmas light string clip, Form3+ Wrapup

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Eliminating Prime Wipe with the Tenlog, Simplify3D V5 First Look, BatMan Blowout on the Form3+

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Prime Pillar Curse, Purging Within the Object, Cost Comparing Formlabs SLA and FDM

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News:

SSYS Buyout Rejected

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/stratasys-says-no-to-1-1bnano-dimension-takeover-221328/

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/murchinson-declares-victory-in-shareholder-battle-nano-dimension-calls-out-falsehoods-misinformation-221325/

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Tenlog with PETG, Different Approach to get Input Shaping, Tenlog Negatives

https://gh-enterprise.com/en/3d-printer-controller/

Thing of the Week:

3D PRINTED LATHE!!!

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5862193

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Tenlog 2 color PLA prints, Chinese Mendel Beds Revisited, Production Printing on the Formlabs Form3+

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Mutant V2, Which 3D Printing future will we see?, Formlabs Durable Resin

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Sewprinted, CubePro Rebuild, Which Direction should Open Source 3D printing Innovation Go?

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Fixing a LIDAR scan, Tenlog Prime/Wipe,  A Whosawhatsis Tip 

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Adding Supports the easy way with Preform, Tenlog Extruders, Thingiverse Teases

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Is this the Age of the Cheap IDEX, Formlabs Vats, Catching the priming strings

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3DPrintingDeals.com, Tenlog TL-D3 First prints, Formlabs Form3+ Reliability

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Tenlog TL-D5 Pro First look, Utility Knife with the Form3+, 3D Printed Amazon Product

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Why TPU is Whitneys Favorite, What consitutes Commercial Use, 3DPrintingDeals.com

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Digital Sundial with Formlabs Form3+, Making a scaled gun, Baby Stepping

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News:

Signs that MarkForged May sell out.

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Printing Rigid with Formlabs Resin, Obsessive Making or When not to 3D Print, Truggy Open RC

Thing of the Week:

Ceiling Bug Catcher

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5215759

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Rafts Revisited with the Formlabs Form3+, Printing the Aztec Calendar on the Formlabs3+, Are Proprietary 3DP Methods Inhibiting?

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Eliminating the elephant foot with the Formlabs Form3+, Input Shaping in Klipper Vs RRF, Translucent Vs Opaque PLA

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The OpenR/C Project, Food Safe “Final” word, Post Processing for Formlabs clear resin

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Keeping the ways clean, Running Out of Resin, Formlabs Form3+ with 3rd party resin

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Tongue hazards, Masterspool or cardboard spools?

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News:

Good news from SSYS

https://3dprint.com/295746/3d-printing-financials-stratasys-delivers-highest-q3-revenue-in-7-years-adjusts-outlook/

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Looking Back 8 Years, Formlabs Serial Names, Tenlog Pricing

Thing of the Week:

Splaty Outlet Cover Plate

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Printing to tolerance, Printing Formlabs Clear Resin, Start and end gcode changes

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Formlabs Form3+ Prints Legos, 3D Coat Pain, Plastic Repellent Paint, Object orientation in SLA

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Installing nozzles, SLA hollow or not hollow, Formlabs Support Rafts

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Disposing of old printers, Flat on the SLA Build plate, Formlabs Curing

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PrusaSlicer and the Toolchanger , Changing Resins on the Formlabs Form3+, Updating the Toolchanger Firmware

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Input Shaping with RepRap FW, Formlabs Optical System

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Installing an accelerometer for Input Shaping , Limitations of our materials, Formlabs Resin Handling and washing

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An Experiment to Eliminate Priming, Ghost guns close to home, Disposing uncurred resin

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News:

Nikon attempts buy of SLM Solutions

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/nikon-launches-takeover-bid-for-slm-solutions-214344/

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Recycled PETG, What printer should I buy?, The Master Spool still lives

Thing of the Week:

HHGTTG Marvin the Paranoid Android

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5488540

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News:

Cyborg Roaches

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/tiny-3d-printed-backpack-turns-insects-into-bluetooth-controlled-cyborgs-214442/

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Managing the cables, Formlabs3+ first prints

Thing of the Week:

Fancy Decorative Filigree Scrollwork opera masquerade ball Halloween face mask

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5500064

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Latest from the iFactory KS, Printing PLA on to PETG, Gun Parts b

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Smart FIll Painting with PrusaSlicer, Petamentor, Formlabs3+ Unbox

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How to do multi-material design, Positron version 3, Bambu X1 KS Campaign

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Systems Talk, AM Forward, Priming on an XL

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News:

Stratasys boasts 13% growth... but...

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/3d-printer-sales-boom-sees-stratasys-achieve-13-growth-but-guidance-takes-exchange-rate-hit-213321/

10 Years of E3D

https://www.tctmagazine.com/additive-manufacturing-3d-printing-industry-insights/technology-insights/ten-years-of-e3d-interview-co-founder-joshua-rowley/

https://zodiac3d.com

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PrusaSlicer Painting, How would LiDAR work for leveling

Thing of the Week:

Rat Rig V-Core 3.1

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Designing Wall Thickness, Setting Extrusion Temperature, Hemera Issues

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Lubing, Buying Filament these days, Iterate Efficiently

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Time lapse projects, The problem with 3D Scanning, Lighter Holder

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Octolapse warning, Getting Ready for Input Shaping in Duet , Capturing Time Lapse on the Ender 3

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Time Lapse recording update 2, EMI in 3D printers, TikTac Hacks

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Octolapse, Sources of distortion, Favorite Toolchanger Use Case

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News:

Color 3D Printing using temperature

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/scientists-come-up-with-new-method-of-creating-safer-colored-3d-printed-parts-210046/

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A look back at the Rep2, Creator 4, Printing Tourniquets

Thing of the Week:

3D Printed Linear Actuator

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5382992

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Multi-Material Options, Meltio, Printing for around the house

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stl-thumb, Trying Variable Layer height in PrusaSlicer, Time Lapse Options

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A trail of fails, Is it a HW fail or SW?, Thangs.com

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Minimizing Tool changes, Printing Analinda, Getting off of S3D for the Toolchanger

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Single tool Vs Multi-Tool problems, Revisitng the Thingiverse Hack, Little You

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E3D Revo First Look, Printing a Color 3DBenchy, PrusaPrinters.org(Printables)

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How to tell if a3Dprinter is selling well., Tuning Retraction, Orbitor update

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Advanced Tuning, Installing Orbitor V2s on the TC, Open Builds

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Updating ReprapFirmware, Orbitor 1.5 on the TC

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Hybrid kits, More on gaming, Getting the first layer right

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Light weight extruder feeders, Prusa XL Posts on FB, Questioning design quality

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To MP3 Converter Free (amvidia.com)

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Polypropylene, Pi Opinions, The Gaming Market

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To MP3 Converter Free (amvidia.com)

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Pellet Extruders, Enraged Rabbit Material Switcher, Fixing the massively nonmanifold

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3DShook.com, Changing settings old Marlin, More Materials we forgot to mention

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More Prusa XL, Musing over Thingiverse, Knife jig for USB Microscope

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Prusa XL Vs E3D TC, Predator Extrusions, Good practice for sizing tolerances

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US Manufacturing Inflection Point, Prusa XL Announcement, Thingiverse break

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Mixing Abstractions, Repeat Markers for Belt Printers, Pi Power Supply

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Non -planer 3D Printing, The Challenge of Sloping Surfaces, Tripped up on SSH

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Hard to ID reasons for clogs, Marionettes, Blender GIS

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Newbie CAD Mistakes, Klipper Feedback, Pi Woes

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Orbiter Extruder feeder, Belt printer roller extensions, Mesh fixing in Fusion360

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Ender 5 Upgrading, Raise3D Decadence, Project Boxes

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E3D’s stand on patents, Tverse Hack, Printing Ornaments

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MultiMaterial Brainstorms, JPEG to STL, Production with a Belt Printer

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Managing Client Expectations, Things to know about using Deltas, Review of unclogging

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Upside Down 3D Printer, Run Out Sensors, Printing hollow

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Automated Brick Laying, RepKord CR30 Upgrades, Are 3DPrinters Illegal?

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Replacing the CR30 Bowden, 3DCoat 2021, Materials review

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What happened to 3DCPrinting?, CR30 print issues, Terrain Trails

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Revisiting the Bungalow Birdhouse, How to get rid of a 3D Printer, More Belt printer experiences

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Klipper, Speed Limit, Tool Changer reliability

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Do 3D Printers die?, Input Shaping, The Rat Rig

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RTP Biz model, Latest lessons learned with CR30, Triangulatica

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RepRap Wally, Replacing the 4010 box fan, PVB

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Predator Mod Pt1, S3D EOL?, Silver Belt Belt Printer

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Where to put the CR30, A Challenging Print, Silk PLA revisit

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Problem with Silks, Zebedee Scanner, Retiring the Flashforge

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Proforge Toolchanger, DIY LIDAR Part 4, Predator Defect Fix

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The problem with Youtube 3DPrinter Reviews, A filament cutter, Multi Materials Dense support lessons

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Sainsmart Nylon + Carbon Fiber, LIDAR in a cave, A common mistake

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Goin Fast, MMU on non-Prusas, Sainsmart Nylon + Carbon Fiber

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Printing a sink, MIrageC Vids, Kiri:Moto

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Making a Paw Cuff, The Five Main Open Source Designs, Should We Build a HevORT?

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PrusaSlicer, Tuning for Print in Place, Clues to if its a good 3D Printer

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Slicer Variable Names, Ironing in PrusaSlicer, Ender 3 Cable Chain Revisit

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Delrin Roller problem, A better T-nut, Ender 3 Cable chains

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Knockturn Alley Booknook, Printing a mask, Ender 3 Hemera Mounts

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CR30 Eval, CR30 Build, CR30 Should you buy now?

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3D Chameleon Update, Belt Printing Challenges, SeeMeCnC DeltaBOSS

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Better Belts, How the Chinese won, 3DSets

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Foam Nozzle, DIY LIDAR part3, Toolchanger Advice

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Crowd Funding Fails, Getting a clean bottom with the belt

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The last 18 months, Purge, Prime and Wipe, Scan the van

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Shrinkage on the belt, New Extruders we want to try, Zesty Nimble V3

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Do we really need bed heaters? Three main types of FDM hobby machines, Obsolete approaches

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3D Chameleon V1 Vs V2 Vs MMU, 3D Printing for drones, Best we're seeing with the belt

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3D Printing Taskflows, T-Nut tips, iFactory Gotchyas

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Attaching the plate, Bed Heaters, 3D Chameleon

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Lithophane Generators, Comparing the Cr6 to the Ender3 V2, Touchterrain

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Silk Filaments, Going Open Source, Printing at 45 degrees

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Retiring the Rhumba, LIDAR Scanner Update, Printing with PVA 1

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iPhone LIDAR, Full Control GCODE task flow, iFactory One Printing

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diy Lidar part 2, Toolchanger accidents, Full Control GCODE

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Enclosures, Delrin rollers, Shapr3D

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Looking at IDEX printers, DIY LIDAR Scanner Pt1, Building the iFactory Part 3