However, industrial 3D printing machines differ greatly from traditional desktop printers. Besides the format of the machines and the prints, one major difference can be found in the material that is ...

Extruders are devices that heat and melt the feedstock and extrude it through the nozzle along a predetermined path on the print bed. Based on the material feeding, 3D printers are classified as ...

Most home 3D printing systems use a few basic tools to build objects. First you have a build plate and an extruder. A motor pulls plastic filament through a heated nozzle and squeezes it out, slowly ...

SWANY’s new demo center will include a 3D Systems EXT 1070 Titan Pellet printer to enable high throughput production. SWANY opening new demo center with 3D Systems’ EXT 1070 Titan Pellet printer ...

A Geelong start-up has developed a system that adapts commercial 3D printers to use pellets made from recycled materials such as crushed plastic as its printing feedstock. Created by Polylab, the ...

Here’s another project with the worthy ultimate aim of repurposing household plastic waste as useful 3D filament for making new stuff with your home 3D printer. Both the Strooder and the Filabot are ...

The last three days marked the 2018 Midwest RepRap Festival. Every year, the stars of the 3D printing world make it out to Goshen, Indiana for the greatest gathering of 3D printers and printing ...

A Geelong start-up has developed a system that adapts commercial 3D printers to use pellets made from recycled materials such as crushed plastic as its printing feedstock. Created by Polylab, the ...