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Headquartered in beautiful Southern California, 3D Prototech is a collective of engineers who saw a market need and filled it with a smart, solid company, designed to supply materials and expertise to the fast-growing world of 3D printing. Whether you’re an established, global corporation or an artist printing at home, you’ll receive the same individual, expert attention in order to have your needs met. We invite you to take advantage of all 3D Prototech has to offer, including our. You are commenting us...
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Printing Like a Pro with PLA | 3D ProtoBlog
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November 23, 2014 —. Printing Like a Pro with PLA. Preparing for the Print. While the Optimum Temperature will vary from printer to printer, we recommend starting at 215 C and then iterating in increments of 5 until you dial in the optimum nozzle temperature. Below are some indicators to guide you on dialing in your nozzle temperature. Stringing From High Nozzle Temperature. Delamination From Low Printing Temperature. Good luck and Happy Printing,. 8211; The Team at 3D ProtoTech. Enter your comment here.
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ABS Sauce | 3D ProtoBlog
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December 22, 2014 —. Using a paper towel apply a thin coat to your build platform. The print bed will fog up indicating that the acetone has evaporated and then you are left with a super thin layer of ABS coating your build plate. Only one layer of application is necessary, as adding a second layer will remove the first layer because of the acetone. Once the acetone evaporates you are ready to begin your warp free print! The team at 3D ProtoTech. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Like ...
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Perfecting the First Layer | 3D ProtoBlog
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February 2, 2015 —. Perfecting the First Layer. We cannot stress it enough. The first layer of your print is CRITICAL. Nozzle and Bed Temperature. Skirts, Brims, and Rafts. First and foremost, you must make sure that your print bed is level. As you more experienced printer aficionados know, a majority of failures will happen in the first few layers, and the cause is usually a non-level print bed. So how can you tell that your bed is level? The nozzle scrapes the build platform at some locations. Finding ...
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Leveling the Print Bed | 3D ProtoBlog
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February 3, 2015 —. Leveling the Print Bed. Just as any two points in an arbitrary space make a line, 3 points in space make a plane. So it follows that if your nozzle is the same distance from the bed at three different points, then it will be level across the entire bed. Z-Stop Bolt and MicroSwitch. Congratulations, your build plate is now level! Some new printers and Hosting Suites now offer auto-leveling and calibration that accounts for the slope of the print bed relative to your nozzle. The UP ...
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3D Printed ABS Hybrid Rocket | 3D ProtoBlog
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3D Printed ABS Hybrid Rocket. World’s First Entirely FDM Printed Rocket Engine. Check out the Video Below:. Steve Guerin, a ProtoTech Engineer who worked on the project with the UCSD student, met up with the project lead Nicholas Garrett and asked him a few question about the project and its relevance to additive manufacturing and the space industry. Tell me about the inspiration this project, how did you guys get started? What kind of rockets where these? I was hoping you would ask! Theres no stopping t...
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Printing Like a Pro with ABS | 3D ProtoBlog
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December 22, 2014 —. Printing Like a Pro with ABS. ABS is an excellent printing material due to its strength and durability, however printing with ABS can prove to be far more of a challenging than PLA. This is because ABS is much more sensitive to thermal variations and therefore requires more preparation to use. However, do not to let this deter you, with the right adjustments and a few iterations, you will be printing like a pro in no time! Here are some indicators:. Stringy due to High Nozzle Temp.
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sguerin2014 | 3D ProtoBlog
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Leveling the Print Bed. Having a level print bed is the first step for obtaining a successful print. There are two commonly used methods for manually leveling that we will examine: 3 point method, and the 4 point method. Some printing software out on the market also provide an auto-leveling or auto-calibration. For the manual methods you will need […]. Perfecting the First Layer. Printing Like a Pro with ABS. ABS is an excellent printing material due to its strength and durability, however printing with ...
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