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SUNLU FilaDC i10 tested: ten spools, twelve days of weighing and dozens of test prints show whether the heat-free desiccant cabinet really dries filament.

Creality Raptor Pro vs.

Automatic Pressure Advance calibration with a Prusa nozzle load cell: how a bed-leveling sensor can tune K values, find max flow, and monitor prints.

BumpMesh update: mesh checks, remeshing, undo, project saving, 3MF export and a five times faster exporter: three months of community-driven changes.

Can a laser cleanly mark 3D printed parts?

Bambu Lab A2L review after almost 400 hours: build volume, print quality, the cutting module, and whether it really earned the 2 in its name.

Bambu Lab X2D review after 250 hours: dual nozzles from $649, a heated chamber, and why the bowden-fed auxiliary hotend is the real compromise.

BumpMesh is my free, browser-based tool for real displacement textures on STL, OBJ and 3MF files: hide Z-seams, add grip and stiffen vase mode prints.

Our own datasheets recommended hole sizes that make inserts hard to fit.

Z Anti-Aliasing smooths FDM stair-stepping by varying layer height inside a layer.

A 3D printing beginner's guide from 10 years of experience: printer setup, filament types, slicing basics, your first print and fixing common problems.

Bambu Lab's H2C swaps six induction-heated nozzles instead of flushing filament.

The Prusa CORE One L doubles the build volume to 300x300x330 mm for €1,699.

Print orientation decides how strong a part is.

Bambu Lab P2S review: quick-swap nozzles, a clever new cooling system, HD camera and touchscreen, and why it makes the X1 Carbon completely obsolete.

TooltraceAI turns a photo of your tools into custom Gridfinity bins for free, no CAD needed.

Bambu Lab H2S review: the H2D's big build volume without the dual nozzle, $800 cheaper, 340 x 320 x 340 mm, and what the single-nozzle head costs you.

Carbon fiber PA6 vs PA12 tested: stiffness, strength, impact, creep and heat resistance, and how much moisture and annealing change the results.

I honestly don’t print a ton with resin, yet when I do I’m always impressed with the amount of details this process can achieve.

The Bambu Lab H2D reviewed: dual-nozzle printing, a heated chamber, the new AMS 2 Pro and AMS HT, plus a 10W laser and drag knife in one machine.

Our Insert Extractor pulls heat-set inserts back out.

10 practical 3D scanning tips from a summer with Creality's CR-Scan Raptor: markers, resolution vs. accuracy, multi-orientation scans and measuring warp.

Tuning steps/mm with a calibration cube probably made your printer worse.

Slicers stack flat layers, so parts split along them.

I washed, shredded and extruded used plastic cutlery into filament.

I tested ABS and PC Blend at different chamber temperatures.

Ten projects that stuck with me from the Rocky Mountain RepRap Festival: a chocolate printer, co-extruded carbon fiber filament and a rotary resin caster.

Revo High Flow keeps up with Bondtech's CHT in my tests, and the numbers give a handy rule: budget about half a watt of heater power per mm³/s of flow.

Prusa's MK4 costs $1099 assembled.

I fitted a CHT nozzle to my Bambu Lab X1 and P1P.

I measured the pushing force of a dozen extruders, from the basic Ender feeder to the belt-driven ProperExtruder, to see which one grips filament hardest.

Glow filament eats nozzles: one lost 0.18 mm of tip in a single test, another barely wore at all.

3D printing is often called a disruptive technology where anything is possible and engineers have total design freedom.

Color does change PLA strength, though not by much.

What stood out at FORMNEXT 2022: a company that recycles your printing waste into filament, a variable-diameter nozzle, and an induction-heated hotend.

A $2 high-flow nozzle from Aliexpress with a copper insert you can easily fit backwards.

Steven's ArcOverhang script prints overhangs as concentric arcs instead of straight lines, so they hold in mid-air.

Conical slicing tilts the layers into cones instead of stacking flat planes, which lets you print steep overhangs without support.

A step-by-step run-through of the ZHAW transformation scripts for conical slicing, including the slow speeds you need: 15 mm/s on perimeters, 25 on infill.

Heat-set inserts work in resin prints too, if you glue them instead of melting them in.

“Complexity is free” is a sentence that’s often used for marketing 3D printers and 3D printing technologies.

I built a VORON 2.4 R2 from the LDO kit.

Printing PETG with parameters tuned for transparency gets you almost perfect layer adhesion.

Filament based-3D printing is a great technology - not only for prototypes but also for real functional parts.

Stacking nuts on a nozzle gets you most of a Volcano.

I built my studio benches from wood, then wondered if I should have printed them.

Almost nobody sets extruder tension properly.

WhamBam's MUTANT lets you swap toolheads by hand.

Chasing a fast Ender-3 profile in PrusaSlicer, jerk turned out to matter more than acceleration.

Revo swaps nozzles by hand in seconds, and up to 15 mm³/s it matches a V6.