Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) is a commonly used type of 3D printing. FDM 3D printers melt and expel thermoplastic filaments to construct three-dimensional designs. It prints a layer at a time, one...

If your 3D printer is shaking everything around it and the extruder head comes to an abrupt stop every time it needs to move to a new position your jerk settings are probably to blame. I had a...

I’ve been working with 3D printers as a hobby for a while now and recently my 10-year-old son has started showing more interest in how they work. He was always into the cool things I could print...

SLA and DLP printers are two of the original types of 3D printers to hit the market. Created in the early 1980s, they've been upgraded and improved through the years. However, the speed of...

The first layer of a print is the most critical because the rest of the print is literally built on top of it. There are several factors that can cause issues with the first layer but the filament...

I was recently looking into getting an SLA 3D printer and realized the build volume was significantly smaller than that of their FDM printer counterpart. This led me to research what the average...