Wed 15 Nov 2023

This is explaining the process of a typical 3D printing process. Sharing some ideas, my specific setup and the tools that helps me. There is even a little video clip to enjoy ;-)

Mon 6 Nov 2023

OctoPrint Need Help In this article from All3D published 30th of October we learn that Gina Häussge, who is OctoPrint’s creator and full-time maintainer, has suffered a significant loss in funding. It’s that bad that without us chipping in it will be difficult to continue the project - one of the absolute main player in the 3D printing community. For Sure! We need to chip in and help Gina!

Sun 5 Nov 2023

The Nicest 3D Print assignment Today I am printing a little something for someone’s birthday. That is always the nicest things to print. It is currently, at the very moment when I am writing this, about 92% done. It’s a very nice type of 3D print job - only 1 hour and 21 minutes. The result doesn’t look too bad at all, some stringing, but not bad at all! Fingers crossed....

Sat 28 Oct 2023

A Little Follow-up So, during the last prints that I wrote about in the earlier post, I ran into an issue on the Prusa Mini+. All of a sudden, the Octoprint lost the connection to the printer. It might have happened before but then I just had to refresh or, at most, restart the page to fix it. This time I restarted the page during the print and then, even after the print was done, I tried to connect....

Sun 22 Oct 2023

Annoying… Yesterday when I was busy with 3D printing I ran all of a sudden into issues. While printing with the Prusa Mini+ printer I lost the connection between Octoprint (hosted on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W). I noticed first on the web-frontend, that is how I monitor the progress. Raspberry Pi… I was going through the troubleshooting guide accessible from Octoprint. It did not resolve anything; it basically suggested changing the existing settings for Serial Port and Baudrate....

Sat 21 Oct 2023

Today’s 3D Printing Jobs Today I am running 2 3D print jobs at the same time, a cable winder organizer on the Creality Ender 3 v2 and then an airduct on (and for) my Prusa Mini+ printer. The cable winder job on the Ender printer had a difficult start, first layer was giving issues. It was sticking OK, but the problem was that it was pushing around surplus filament on the print bed....

Thu 19 Oct 2023

As published here (and check out the Fictiv's 3D services ): Fictiv Expands 3D Printing Service With 14 New Materials For Advanced Engineering San Francisco-based manufacturing bureau, Fictiv has announced significant updates to its 3D printing service. In doing so, Fictiv aims to better serve the needs of its industrial customers engaged in demanding additive manufacturing programs. Fictiv’s recent addition contains 14 new materials, tailored for advanced engineering applications. These span from high-temperature options like Ultem 9085 to biocompatible choices such as ABS-M30i, alongside the introduction of a range of optical SOMOS materials....

Thu 19 Oct 2023

As published here on 3DPI's site: Are you ready? Let’s get started ! Welcome to 3DPI's Beginner’s Guide to 3D Printing. Whether you are new to 3D printing technology or just looking to close a few knowledge gaps, we’re glad you stopped by. By now, most of us have heard, at some level, about the potential of 3D printing. But with this guide we are offering insights into the history and the reality of 3D printing — the processes, materials and applications — as well as measured thoughts on where it might be heading....

Mon 16 Oct 2023

Adaptions I am busy doing some adaptions to this sites. I initially started designing it with the idea of replacing my Daily update site. But I started re-thinking that idea… How about if this could be the new IamPrinting.xyz site instead? Practical and Ideas Working with Hugo Working with Hugo and in Markdown brings some new challenges. Here below are the two ways of adding images and how to include HTML tags in Markdown....

Fri 29 Sep 2023

Here we go, the new site with the new Hugo theme…