A single broken plastic clip can take a machine out of service, and the frustrating part is how often the fix is held up by the part itself. The manufacturer has discontinued it, the lead time runs to weeks, or the price for a scrap of moulded plastic is out
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If you already own a Form 3+, the arrival of the Form 4 raises an obvious question: is it worth upgrading, or is your current printer still the right tool? Formlabs has discontinued the Form 3+, though it remains supported, and has positioned the Form 4 as its successor with
Formlabs Form 4 vs Form 3+: an upgrade-decision piece for existing owners Read More »
The run-up to Christmas is the busiest gift-buying stretch of the year, and it rewards anyone who can offer something a shop cannot: a product with a name, a date, or a photo built into it. 3D printing personalised gifts fits that demand well, because it needs no moulds, no
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Anyone moving from printing models to printing parts that have to fit together runs into the same question. How close will the printed dimension be to the one you drew? That question is what 3D printing tolerances are about, and the honest answer is that it depends on the technology,
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Build volume is one of the first numbers people check when buying a printer, and one of the easiest to get wrong. Buy too small and you are splitting parts you hoped to print whole. Buy too big and you have paid for print time, power, and desk room you
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Architects reach for 3D printing to do two very different jobs. One is making scale models that communicate a design. The other is producing full-size components that end up in or on a finished building. Both sit under the same heading of 3D printing in architecture, but they use different
3D printing in UK architecture: scale models vs full-size components Read More »
For low volumes and complex geometry, yes, 3D printing is usually the more sustainable choice. For high-volume production of simple parts, traditional manufacturing often wins on efficiency once tooling costs are spread across thousands of units. The honest answer depends on what you are making, how many you need and
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The Bambu Lab A2L addresses a specific gap that a lot of makers, small businesses and schools run into eventually: needing to print parts bigger than a standard desktop machine’s build plate allows. Whether that’s a large enclosure, a batch of identical parts in a single print, or simply oversized
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The Formlabs Fuse X1 sits at an interesting point in the market. It uses SLS (Selective Laser Sintering), a process traditionally associated with six-figure industrial systems, but at a price and footprint that engineering teams, manufacturers and service bureaus can realistically justify once they need real scale. SLS earned its
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A multi material 3D printer used to mean expensive, complicated industrial equipment with a steep learning curve. Bambu Lab’s AMS (Automatic Material System) changed that, bringing genuinely practical multi-colour and multi-material printing to desktop machines at a price point most makers, schools and small businesses can justify. That shift matters
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