If you want to connect two printed parts with a screw, this is a type of a zero-cost thread that you should seriously consider using. It’s super easy to design into your parts, provides strength that’s more than good enough for almost anything you could use it for, and it’s ready to use straight off the printer – no setting inserts or cutting threads. The best part is: It’s just a fancy hole, and solving problems with free details is something that 3D printers are really good at. I useContinue reading
Category: Tips and Tricks
Tips and Tricks for 3D Printing Beginners and Pros
Try these Filament Combinations for Multi-Material and Supports
This is how support material should work: Easy enough to peel, but sticky enough to hold the part in place while printing. And this is how multi-material prints should work out: UV-resistant material up top, grippy rubber on the bottom, all welded together for eternity. These are surprisingly easy to get right if you keep a couple of tricks in mind and use the right material combinations. So buckle up as we go through what works, what doesn’t and how you can improve things. This is one of the thingsContinue reading
3D printers are worse than I thought. Time to do something about it!
Do you smell it? That smell, the kind of smelly smell. A smelly smell that smells… smelly. ABS! We all have smelled that before, that sticky, sweet, plasticky smell that you get when you’re printing with ABS. Common sense would tell you that that’s not something you want to breathe. So we now all print more with ASA, which smells a lot less, if at all – but if you look into it, it turns out that ASA is often found to emit more harmful particles and VOCs than ABS.Continue reading
Why you should get a 3D printer NOW
On this channel, I talk a lot about 3D printers and 3D printing and making stuff that uses 3D printing, but chances are, you’re watching this and you DON´T have a 3D printer of your own. Well, should you get one? This video is the companion video to why you should NOT get one, so let’s get started on this one with 5 reasons why you should consider getting one. Reason number one, and this is obvious: A 3D printer is a tool, and an incredibly versatile one at it,Continue reading
Why you should NOT get a 3D printer
So you’re considering getting a 3D printer? Well, before I get you too excited with my other video about why you should get one, maybe first consider this video about why you should not get one. There are quite a few things that only become apparent once you’re in deep, and I’ve been in deep for the last decade. So here are five aspects to factor into your decision on whether you should get a 3D printer for yourself or even recommend getting one to a friend. Consideration number one:Continue reading
Free CAD
Are you tired as well, that seemingly the entire CAD landscape consists of extortionary licensing models that lure you into learning their tool for free and then slamming you with a massive subscription fee as soon as you’re hooked and start using it more? Or software that regularly removes features that you’ve grown to love? Well, worry no more, because there is an alternative, actually more than one, but for this video, I wanted to take another look at FreeCAD, a free and open-source, fully-featured CAD tool that is aContinue reading
Prusa Slicer 2.6
It’s a new year, it’s a new PrusaSlicer release. This one is 2.6, alpha 3 at this time at the time of me recording, and it brings with it some features that, each one on their own, are just, nice, but when you put them all together, it makes for an overall well-improved package. Of course, this isn’t just for Prusa machines, you can use PrusaSlicer with any 3D printer that speaks gcode, in fact, the 2.6 release now out-of-the-box has tuned profiles for the new Elegoo Neptune series, CrealityContinue reading
This printer is OLD. Why is it still my favorite?
This is my Prusa. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Actually, this one is exactly like all the other ones out there, except that I put an E3D Revo in it because I needed to review that hotend platform and it’s using a newer official model of the fan shroud because I melted off the one it came with at some point. But it’s still the printer I actually use whenever I just need to print stuff. This one, on the other hand, has seen someContinue reading
How to use a 3DBenchy
Hello from the new, old, old, new studio! I’m not quite fully set up in here yet, but it’s usable, and today we’ll be talking about Benchies! I don’t think I need to explain what this is – if you’re watching this video and you’ve got a 3D printer, you will most likely have already printed a 3DBenchy at some point. And I think that’s great! I’m going to argue that this is pretty much the ultimate calibration or benchmark print. I’ve never printed a calibration cube, well, maybe once,Continue reading