A new research paper shows AI and curvature-aware post-slicing can cut FFF material use by about a quarter without touching CAD or the slicer.
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New Web Tool Makes Bricklayers Extrusion Method Accessible to Mainstream 3D Printing
Using the Bricklayers approach to 3D printing has never been easier with the new Brick Effect Processor.
New Free Looprint Utility Enables Hands-Free Batch Production
Looprint could be one of the most useful free utilities for Bambu Lab 3D printer operators.
Bambu Lab Awarded Patent for Intelligent Speed-Adjusting Method
An interesting patent has just been awarded to Bambu Lab related to print quality.
AON3D Boosts 3D Print Speeds by 54% with Physics-Based Optimization
AON3D has somehow sped up their print speeds by 54%.
Maker Experiments with Manually Resuming a Failed 3D Print — and Reveals Future Potential for Smart Recovery
Have you ever wanted to somehow recover a 3D print job that failed in mid-print? Someone tried to do this.
Automating Heat-Set Inserts: Using a 3D Printer’s Hot End
I’m looking at an unusual method of placing threaded inserts into 3D prints.
New Attack Method Can Replicate Objects From 3D Printing Video Feed
You might want to turn off your 3D printer’s camera.
3DQue Solves AMS Spool Management for Bambu Lab Print Farms
3DQue just solved a growing issue on large 3D print farms.
Fuzzyficator Update: Seamless Integration with Major 3D Slicing Software
There’s a major update to the non-planar fuzzy skin script.
Stich3R: New Blender Add-On Brings Realistic GCODE Visualization
There’s a new and quite beautiful rendering system for GCODE visualization. When you prepare a 3D print in slicing software, there’s usually a 3D viewable preview. It’s quite important to review the preview, because it can often show flaws in the job — does the first layer actually touch all of the plate? Did you… Continue reading Stich3R: New Blender Add-On Brings Realistic GCODE Visualization
Five Things that need to be Standardized in 3D Printing
The world of 3D printing seems to be slowly fragmenting into a series of closed environments. What can stop that from happening?
Slice-100K: How a New Dataset Could Revolutionize AI in 3D Printing
Researchers have developed “Slice-100K”, a dataset that could enable much more AI use in 3D printing.
Anycubic Quickly Resolves Security Incident Involving Unexpected GCODE File on 3D Printers
Anycubic seems to have resolved a curious security incident with their 3D printers.
ChatGPT and 3D Printing: A Look into MakeUseOf’s Findings
I’m reading a curious article on MakeUseOf that attempts to show how ChatGPT can be used for 3D printing.
Book of the Week: Advanced 3D Printing with Grasshopper
This week’s selection is “Advanced 3D Printing with Grasshopper” by Diego Garcia Cuevas and Gianluca Pugliese.
Markforged Links Slicing and Simulation
Markforged announced a very useful new feature for their Eiger software platform.
Speeding Up 3D Printing With Ulendo
We had a chat with Ulendo, developers of an intriguing system to dramatically speed up 3D printing.
Could OVF Replace GCODE?
A newly invented protocol just might replace GCODE for certain types of 3D printing.
Book of the Week: Advanced 3D Printing with Grasshopper
This week’s selection is “Advanced 3D Printing with Grasshopper” by D. Diego Garcia Cuevas and D. Gianluca Pugliese.
Design of the Week: Mini 3D Printed Hammock
This week’s selection is the questionably useful, but totally admirable Mini 3D Printed Hammock by Instructables contributor jayleenli.
Should Premade GCODE Be Used?
I’ve seen pre-made GCODE a few times recently, and I am a bit suspicious of it.
Why Use a Free GCODE Analyzer?
There are tons of free utilities available on the internets, and one of them is a free GCODE viewer.
Printr Simplifies Start and End 3D Print Sequences
I hadn’t noticed this previously, but Printr has developed a really cool way to customize portions of your desktop 3D prints.
MakePrintable’s GCODE Feature Could Cause Issues For Some
Another MakePrintable story? Yes, because they’ve developed a feature that could shake things up in the intellectual property space.