3D printers are great, right up until you wait multiple days to print a decorative prototype, only to realize there's a reason your 3D print has failed after the timer's up. Unfortunately, there's not ...

Infill is the slider everyone touches, almost nobody truly understands, and plenty of people blame when a print fails. That’s partly because it looks like a “strength” knob, and strength is an easy ...

Dy default, the slicing software used for 3D printers has the printer first create the walls around the edges of a print, then goes back to deposit the infill pattern. [NeedItMakeIt], however, ...

Desiccant is common in 3D printing because the drier plastic filament is, the better it prints. Beads of silica gel are great for controlling humidity, but finding a porous container for them that is ...

When I first got into 3D printing, I treated infill like a strength slider. If 10% was decent, then 20% had to be better, and 50% sounded even safer. That logic felt reasonable when I was still ...