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, ...

For many users, buying 3D printer filament feels like the last and simplest step—just pick a material, choose a color, and place the order. Yet in practice, this is where most printing problems ...

Our first 3D printers only printed ABS and PLA plastic. Yeah, we heard about PVA for support structures, but no one could get them to stick. There was also polycarbonate, but you had to have an all ...

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 ...

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 ...

Xenia’s innovation path has expanded into the FDM/FFF 3D Printing sector with the introduction of the 3DF Materials family of products, focused on creating high-performance filaments. This new ...

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 differ in how they make each layer.

3D printers can solve so many organizational problems around the house, but every once in a while, issues arise that can ...