Every 3d printer comes with some 3d printer tools. Using them instead of losing them. Today we are going to talk about 10 tools what make it much easier for you to use your 3d printer. Metric Ruler A 15 centimeters metal ruler is important. It very useful for measuring the height x-axis to the print bed to make sure it is the same on both sides and also useful for measuring prints to make sure extrusion is correct pretty much. Digital Caliper Digital caliper is a must-have tool to dial in your 3D printer for perfect print. Fine-tune your 3d printer with XYZ test cube and to get precise print r ..read more

Every 3d printer comes with some supplies，using them instead of losing them. Today we are going to talk about 10 tools what make it much easier for you to use your 3d printer. 1 - a metric ruler A 15 centimeters metal ruler is important. It very useful for measuring the height x-axis to the print bed to make sure it is the same on both sides and also useful for measuring prints to make sure extrusion is correct pretty much.   2 - a digital caliper This will make it much easier for you to measure things where you want a precise measurement .You can get a lot of plastics digital calipe ..read more

3D printing is a door to unlimited creation world. You can print almost everything you like, props, artistic designs, manufacturers, and other functional objects. In this article, we will show you some 3D printed things that are really useful and helpful in your daily life. All these gadgets can be 3D printed without many tricks on a budget 3D printer like Anet A8 V2. 3D Printed Smartphone Stand As many people spend considerable time on smartphones every day, the first useful thing 3D printable for daily life must be a smartphone stand. This design of the smartphone stand provides multiple vi ..read more

3D printing time-lapse videos are cool and decompressive. Anyone who has watched a 3D printing time-lapse video might have a impulse to make one on his or her own.   However, it’s not that simple for newbies to make a 3D printing time-lapse video. If you’re also tending to make one, this tutorial will help you out. 3 ways to make 3D printing time-lapse video Octolapse Octolapse is a plug-in in Octoprint for automatic time-lapse video making. To run Octolapse, you also need a raspberry PI and a web camera. We can download Octoprint from Octoprint.org and add Octolapse as a plug-in ..read more

You’re probably pretty good at 3D printing photos, even have made one or two lithophane lamps on your own. Grayscale lithophanes were already pretty amazing, but colors can add more interesting details to them. This article is going to tell you how to 3D print color lithophanes. To give color to the lithophane, we don’t actually paint the lithophane. Instead, we color the light that comes out of the plastic. There are two different ways to do so. One of them allows you to get a color lithophane within 4 steps, while another can provide you a more vivid 3D print photo with full color. Print Co ..read more

We talked about how to 3D print pictures as lithophanes in the previous articles and listed a series of matters and attention about lithophane 3D print. In this article, we will introduce you in details of 3D print lithophane. And we will go deeper about the settings when 3D printing images. Generate the 3D Photo Using Cura Ultimaker Cura, one of the most popular slicing applications we used for 3D printing, is capable of generating lithophane. In this way, it’s no need for other application or website, we can turn our 3D printer into a lithophane generator with the Cura. To generate a 3D mode ..read more

3D print pictures are good ideas as gifts for friends and family. You can customize your own lithophane with your 3D printer. We will show you how to turn your 3D printer into a lithophane generator and make a lithophane photo and lithophane lamp. Choose a picture appropriate for 3D printing A lithophane is an embossed photo generated by a 3D printer. It’s a 3D image that uses the thickness of the print to show varying shades of grey when illuminated from behind. The thinner areas allow more light to pass through, appearing lighter, while the thicker areas appear darker. A simple image, not to ..read more

Wanting for a wearable printed Mandalorian helmet but only have a small 3D printer? Don’t need to worry about the model size. We will show you how to print a full-size Mandalorian helmet with your desktop printer and we will provide you an excellent Mandalorian helmet 3D print file to download. Mandalorian helmet 3D print files Thanks to the huge number of fans, you can easily find free 3d printer models on websites like Thingiverse or MyMiniFactory. Some of the models are just the original helmet, while the others may allow you to print more details and accessories. The model we recommend her ..read more

With accelerated growth in development, there are many pretty good printers that reliable and affordable. Such as Anet A8, Anet A8 plus, Anet ET4 series, and Anet ET5X series. However, getting good results from your 3D prints comes from more than just the technology of the printer itself. We will be covering seven items (in no particular order) that are helpful with 3D printing. Isopropyl Alcohol for Hotbed Cleaning Isopropyl alcohol, also known as IPA, is something that evaporates quickly and will help clean through oils or residual plastic on the hotbed. Keep using IPA for cleaning can maint ..read more

3D printing a thing, sometimes consumes a lot of days. Leaving a 3D printer printing alone can waste filament because of unexpected printing error, or even lead to safety issues. Using Octopi to run remote 3D printing can be a good approach. Now, let’s learn how to set Octopi to fulfill remote 3D printing, real-time monitoring, time-lapse photography and auto power cut-off. Items needed for Octopi 3D printing 1. Raspberry PI 2nd generation Raspberry Pi or above is recommended to run this program. It’s better to use the 4th Raspberry PI for the best performance.  Note Raspberry Pi 2B has n ..read more