3D Printing and Design

If you are a professional engineer, 3D printing and design methodology can bring your creations to production faster and can be an ideal tool for producing prototypes to show to potential manufacturers. If you are a hobbyist it can be a means of creating interest fun projects, or if you simply want to design a custom case for your mobile phone, the concept is the same. Whatever reason you have for your design concept, there is only room for its improvement with 3D printing and design.

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3D Printing - Back To The Basics

With all the 3D printing buzz over the last several years, I’m sure you are now familiar in one way or another on what the term means. Chances are many of you have had something made with a 3D printer (maybe an enclosure, or a jig?) or perhaps you...

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nicras

2 months ago

Great article!!! keep it up.
Nic

in 3D Printing - Back To The Basics
davecole

6 months ago

Really nice print, two quick questions.
1. What printer did you use?
2. Can you share the print files?
Thanks

in A 3D Printed Christmas From RS Southampton
SheldonCooper

1 year ago

This 3D printed bust of Daenerys is particularly cool and could have made the list. I think I will try a couple of these.

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/ga ... busts-1886

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biswasaditi

1 year ago

Amazing project!

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danielma

1 year ago

An excellent CAD program. I don't know of many CAD programs that allow you to annotate a drawing so quickly. Thanks for making a free and reasonably priced professional version.

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3D Printing and Design

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Thinking of buying 3D printer filament? Read this first.

A review of Verbatim's 3D printer filaments which is used with Ultimaker2 3D printer for printing of various models to test the filament's strength/maximum load.

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Refurbishing MakerBot Ready for a New Home

Putting a 3D printer through its paces and making minor repairs.

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Kiana - SD3D

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Creating Threaded Parts for 3D Printing

All too often parts are designed perfectly in a CAD software, yet when it comes time to 3D print for prototyping/volume production purposes we run into tolerance issues.

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Ten22

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April 4, 2017 08:34

Wondering what to do with the spare room?...Turn it into a giant 3D printer!

Does the idea of an open source, affordable, self-replicating 3D printer that can utilise an entire room to print large objects like a 5ft tall Tower of Babel appeal to you?

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March 21, 2017 15:27

3D Printing - Back To The Basics

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Connector Geek

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January 30, 2017 11:22

Hacking a TS Thumbstick for gaming and mouse control

This instalment of ‘What You Can Do in a Day’ started out primarily as a fix to my personal gaming dilemma for PC-based flight simulator games. It developed as I discovered a whole host of other applications for this kind of input device.

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Pete-Robox

3D Printing and Design

January 27, 2017 09:16

A 3D printer is a tool, not just a hobby

If you are spending a lot of time trying to get a good result from your 3D printer then it is time to get a printer which makes a task easier, not harder. Any well designed tool should be like this.

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Pete-Robox

3D Printing and Design

January 24, 2017 15:22

Robox Kickstarter campaign offers network control, print farms and touchscreen control.

Robox is a 3D printer designed in the UK which has been awarded best of PlugnPlay 2 years running by 3D hubs. Robox remote connectivity was lacking and this Kickstarter campaign provides the add-on required to give network connections and much more.

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TristanGB61

3D Printing and Design

December 19, 2016 11:04

A 3D Printed Christmas From RS Southampton

3D Printed in our Technology Centre A the RS Trade Counter in Southampton

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sikula

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Robotic : from Design Spark Mechanical to 3D Printing a freewheel adaptator

Association Sikula Robotik - French Robotic Cup robots design. How an untrained member of the team used Design Spark Mechanical to go from hand schematic to a 3D printed part of one of our autonomous robots. Designing a freewheel mechanical adaptor.