Category Archives: Tips & Tricks

Aluminium Casting of 3D printed parts

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Alexander Baloche

A while back we posted a blog about aluminum casting involving 3D printed PLA by Jeshua (3DTOPO). He has used this technique for several of his parts now and decided to post a longer tutorial …
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Colorfabb’s ‘Soft Touch PLA’.

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Kristof Deruyttere

At Ultimaker we want to make brilliant 3D printers but also push 3D printing to the heights it deserves. This is why we were thrilled that Colorfabb sent our regular guest blogger and community member, …
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What do you think about this print?

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Alexander Baloche

Here at Ultimaker HQ we are pushing the 3D printer envelop as you might expect, so a while back we printed this work by Dizingof to see how it would perform. Needless to say we …
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Melting 2 different PLA filaments together during a print.

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Alexander Baloche

Let’s start this week with a hack. Florian Horsch, a community member, was faced with a problem. He was getting to the end of a long print but did not have enough PLA to finish …
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