Overview
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Join the additive manufacturing revolution. Get weekly tips for creating high-quality prints with filament and resin, troubleshooting clogs and jams, and maintaining your 3D printer.
Syllabus
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New This Week
- Nonplanar printing
- Goodbye!
- Welcome to Additive Manufacturing: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
- Choosing a material for a surface quality
- Tips for print surface quality
- The five-minute guide to printing with resin
- Clearing a nozzle clog without disassembly
- Filament jams
- Tips for large filament prints
- Filament 3D printing in the automotive aftermarket
- Metal 3D prints without sintering
- Checking printer platform calibration
- Distributed manufacturing in emergencies: Lessons learned
- Additive manufacturing surge capability
- Abrasive filaments and your nozzle
- Retrofitting wireless capability on a 3D printer
- Tips for creating transparent prints with filament
- Ordering operations within a layer
- Distributed manufacturing in emergencies
- Additive manufacturing surge capability
- Nozzle replacement issues
- Thicker layers
- Sanding 3D prints
- Printing food
- Recycled filament
- Painting and dying 3D prints
- Infill strategies
- Creating detailed features
- Print bed surface options
- Choosing and applying tape
- Advanced Cartesian printer calibration
- Advanced extruder calibration
- Architectural 3D printing applications
- Printing at different scales
- Printer speeds
- Belt 3D printers
- Bridging and overhangs
- Design for injection molding vs. 3D printing
- Printing with flexible filament
- Nanoprinting
- Emerging software standards: 3MF
- Modeling stresses and printing with filament
- Repeatability in 3D printing
- Printing on fabric
- Faster resin printing
- Generative design and lightweighting
- Custom supports
- Modifier meshes
- CAD software tips for creating multimaterial prints
- Keeping filament dry
- Testing 3D prints
- Bioprinting
- Large prints
- Vector vs. raster printing
- Categories of 3D CAD software
- Ultimaker Cura plug-ins
- Filled resins
- Conductive and ESD safe materials
- Printing with embedded fiber
- Selecting a slicing program
- Using a host program
- Using bioprinting to replace animal testing
- Ceramic 3D prints
- Multicolor vs. full-color 3D printing
- 3D printing for assistive tech
- 3D printing in low-resource environments
- Choosing a nozzle
- Printer maintenance: Lubrication
- 3D printing glass
- Picking a print bed surface
- Closing the filament 3D printer control loop
- 3D scanning
- Parallel multi-nozzle machines
- Multiple filaments with one nozzle
- Printing with precious metals
- When to use a service bureau
- Digital anatomy models
