Yearly Archives: 2018

Creality 3D have been riding high on the success for the CR10 and now two years after that printer put them on the map; They have announced the CR20 in this video. This seems to be an iterative upgrade on the CR10 with most of the hardware on the Z and X axis remaining the same as the stock Cr10. So we can expect the same great print quality, hopefully at a still affordable price. Hopefully, there will be more detailed preview coming soon but just from this short video, we can tell a few things about the printer.

Wanting to Find a Cheap 3D Printer? Maybe wanna know how much a 3D Printer cost? Printers using all of these components can all do the same thing, extrude molten plastic! The trick to it is how much you understand the machine that you have. If you take the time to understand how your machine works, and nail down some slicing settings, then there is no reason your $200 printer can’t produce models just as good, if not better than machines 10 times more expensive.

In this article I will share five tips that I have learned make the process of 3D printing a little less challenging and enhances the fun factor. The feeling of completeness that you get when a print exceeds your expectation or when you go to remove the supports and they simply fall away from the print without marking it in the least.

Raise 3D is one of those companies that people are still shocked came from Kickstarter. Because Raise 3D has been incredibly professional and successful...

The Internet is an amazing place. And we can find all sort of content related to 3DPrinting. Most of the printers can be controlled with...

Your 3D printer was printing great and now it’s not. 3D printers print great when you first get them and if you don’t properly maintain them, they will fail. In this article I will explain how to maintain your printer to ensure your ability to continue turning out great prints. All 3D printers require some amount of routine maintenance to continue printing.

Recently a growing 3D Printer company has come under fire for what is being termed a violation of GPL terms by some in the 3D printing community. First let me say I am not here to take sides and I do not represent Creality or even own one of their printers. In this article I will attempt to present my unbiased view of this incident and allow you the reader to make any conclusions. I intend to leave this article open-ended and not present my conclusion as to guilt or incidence

My Monoprice Duplicator I3 V2 3D printer has been under extruding and I needed a way to print flexible filaments. I looked into many solutions like the Flexion Single Extruder, Bondtech QR Universal Extruder and the E3D Extruder Upgrades. I read articles and watched YouTube videos reviewing each. In the end I decided to go with the Flexion based on price and ease of installation.

See the Pros and Cons of the Da Vinci Junior 1.0

We take the Tevo's newest 3D printer, the small sized Tevo Michelangelo, for a test drive to see how well it performs.

Much loved Chinese gaming company Creality 3D has announced a new budget-friendly and if their reputation is anything to go by high-quality 3D printer...

With the popularity of FDM printing, 3D printers are left with a pile of empty filament spools. In this blog I explore how printers deal can deal with them. In the end I also propose some industry standards for the MasterSpool refills proposed by Richard Horne.