What type of 3D printing filament should you buy? Best answer: Polylactic Acid (PLA) is the best all-round filament for making models, especially if you're going to finishing them. It's forgiving, ...

Shenzhen - Snapmaker, the world’s leading 3-in-1 3D printer manufacturer, has announced the launch of two new high-performance PLA filament lines: SnapSpeed PLA and Matte PLA. These filaments are ...

Filament is to 3D printers what gasoline is to cars. You need it in order to run your machine; you can get it from a variety of different places; and it’s available in various levels of quality. Not ...

Ordinarily, when using an off-the-shelf 3D printer, it's quite difficult to print a single object that incorporates multiple materials. An experimental new system could make it easier, though, by ...

In signature Noctua colors Noctua and Prusa Research have teamed up to bring two new 3D printing filaments that will, of ...

— Levin Eustice, Rome Corners, Wis. A Ben Cox, engineer at the Morgridge Institute for Research: 3D printing is a process by which we make a piece layer by layer, and the various forms of 3D printing ...

Toledo, Ohio — A filament for 3D printing made of nylon, polyolefin and cellulose is part of an Ohio project to create medical devices such as wearable sensors. FibreTuff Medical Biopolymers LLC, a ...

However, industrial 3D printing machines differ greatly from traditional desktop printers. Besides the format of the machines and the prints, one major difference can be found in the material that is ...

These items should be in every 3D printer’s toolbox, otherwise any job may wind up taking twice as long to do, and the end results could be less than desired. 3D printers require a lot of support.