Collaborate Disseminate
On the “hack/not-a-hack” scale, a 3D printed bracket for aluminum extrusions is — well, a little boring. Such connectors are nothing you couldn’t buy, and even if you insisted on …read more Continue reading Better 3D Prints, Courtesy of a Simple Mass-Produced Bracket
RepRap 3D printers were designed with the ultimate goal of self-replicating machines. The generatively-designed Gen5X printer by [Ric Real] brings the design step of that process closer to reality. While …read more Continue reading 5-Axis Printer Wants to Design Itself
Fleetwood Mac puns aside, very little has changed about how we “slice” models for printers in the last 30 years. However, [Stefan Hermann] of CNC Kitchen has a demo that …read more Continue reading Move Aside Planar, I’m Slicing My Cone Way
It is no secret that the way you build things in your garage is rarely how big companies build things at scale. But sometimes new techniques on the production floor …read more Continue reading 3D Printer Slicing in the Manufacturing World
It always seemed to us that the Z-axis on a 3D printer, or pretty much any CNC machine for that matter, is criminally underused. To have the X- and Y-axes …read more Continue reading RotBot Adds a Extra Dimension to 3D Printing, with a Twist
One may think that when it comes to 3D printing, slicing software is pretty much a solved problem. Take a 3D model, slice it into flat layers equal to layer …read more Continue reading A Universal, Non-planar Slicer for 3D Printing is Worth Thinking About