We toured several 3D Printer factories, including Prusa Research, Printed Solid, Printerior, and ProtoPasta, to learn how 3D Printing filament is made.

Resin or filament 3D printing: ... (FDM) is the style of printing most people recognize. A string of plastic called a filament is melted through a hot end and deposited on the build plate, ...

For the uninitiated, 3D printers typically work by melting plastic filaments or other base materials such as nanoparticles, metals, thermoplastics etc. and then stacking the melted materials layer ...

3D prints that really don’t look 3D-printed. The idea is this: colored, melted ... Art Tagged 3d printed, filament blending ... Hackaday, Hack A Day, and the Skull and Wrenches Logo are ...

Compact, inexpensive 3D printers typically utilize a process known as fused filament fabrication (FFF). This involves heating a plastic filament to its melting point, then extruding it through a ...

Filament. 01-04 macro photography by Alan Nguyen of Freedom of Creation showing blobs and squiggles of the waste material from a Cube 3D Printer.