3D Printing content from Machine Design: The 3D Printer Experience LLC houses over 20 printers of various brands and offers services like 3D scanning, 3D printing-on-demand, and scheduled tours and classes. Cofounder Mike Moceri helps teach the workshops. Moceri shared his experience with desktop 3D printers. He says, “My favorites are the UP Mini for its support-material generation and ease of use, the MakerBot Replicator 1 Dual for its versatility and quality, and the SeeMeCNC Rostock Max for its size capabilities and high-speed delta robot mechanisms. However, for the best quality of prints I’ve seen, SLS printing on an EOS Formiga P110 is the gold standard for surface quality, part strength, and dimensional accuracy.” Moceri further explained the desktop-printing process.
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This is an interesting article about the state of 3D printing technology today. Although I appreciate their attempt to give a definitive list of instructions to make the perfect print, it isn't yet possible from what I have seen to create a reliable print setup like they are defining. I love 3D printing and the potential it has in so many different industries, but I have seen the work that is required to figure out how to make your prints as good as possible. Last summer I managed two 3D printers as part of my responsibilities at Techshop Pittsburgh. While the quality these machines could produce was phenomenal, for every good print there were a few trial prints to figure out the settings and other details to make the prints perfect. And these settings were on a per project basis, there was no "universal best" setting which generalizes to all materials and projects.
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