3D Printing Living Hinges and Foldable Parts
3D printing complex shapes or hollow parts can sometimes be problematic. What if you could print them flat and fold the part to... read more »
Filament
Filament is where every FDM print starts, and the right spool decides how a part looks, how it holds up, and how easily it prints. This section collects our filament buyer guides and material deep-dives: pick-by-pick roundups of the everyday plastics (PLA, PETG, TPU, and ABS/ASA), plus category guides to composite, flexible, engineering, and bio-based materials for jobs the standard spools cannot handle.
Not sure which material you need? Start with our 3D printer filament hub, which maps the whole landscape, explains how to choose, and points you to the right guide below. Every recommendation here is independently researched and tested against the printers people actually own.
Graphene Enhanced PLA Filament to be Launched by UK Company Haydale
UK graphene manufacturer Haydale announced that it will launch graphene-enhanced PLA 3D printer filament. Haydale is collaborating with UK-based thermoplastic filaments for 3D... read more »
How to Fuse Filament at Home
If you do as much 3D printing as I do then you probably have a bunch of scrap pieces of filament lying around... read more »
World’s First Commercial Conductive Graphene Filament for 3D Printing
Conductive graphene filament Graphene 3D Lab, American developer and manufacturer of graphene-enhanced materials for 3D printing, launched the commercial sale of the world’s... read more »
3D Printed Birdhouse Changes Color When a Bird Is Inside
People can do amazing things with specialty filaments. Take thermo-sensitive filament for instance. Thermo-what? Yes, filament that changes color when temperatures rise. 46-year-old engineer Reginald... read more »
