Volumetric 3D Printing

Yesterday I had one of those moments of disappointment again, which one as an inventor unfortunately has again and again. I read an article reporting that a patent had been filed for volumetric 3D printing. At first I was very disappointed, because I thought about it a few years ago….

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Adaptive layer thickness

I came across a very interesting article on one of my favourite websites (https://hackaday.com/2018/11/01/adaptive-layer-height-on-the-monoprice-select-mini/) came across a very interesting article about the possibility of Cura to generate variable, (adaptive), layer heights. We know that an FDM print with 0.3mm layer height is printed much faster than a print with 0.1mm. But…

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Food Grade 3d-Printing

Photo by Eiliv Sonas Aceron on Unsplash   Recently, Google+ in the 3D printing community raised the question of how it is possible to produce food-compatible 3D prints, as some FDA-certified 3D printing material is now available. I thought about it and came to the conclusion that the first thing I would do…

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