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Heat Has to Go Somewhere: Designing 3D Printed Parts That...
Plastic is a thermal insulator and an electrical insulator, and both of those facts are usually treated as background. They are not background. They are the two properties that decide whether a printed part becomes a housing, a bracket, a duct, or a part that quietly fails at month eight...
Draw It Once: Modeling 3D Printed Parts So They Fit...
Almost every failed 3D print that was not a printer problem was a drawing problem wearing a printer problem's clothes. The machine did what it was told. The part came out at exactly the size the file asked for. It just did not fit — because the file asked for the wrong thing. This is not an...
3D Printing End-Use Parts: What Actually Works in Production
Beyond prototypes, FDM and resin prints are now showing up in real products. Here is what we have learned from running production parts on desktop machines.