Owen Baptiste

If you print plain PLA, PETG and TPU, a brass nozzle works and keeps working. The moment you load carbon fiber, glass fiber, glow-in-the-dark … Read more

If you are asking whether are 3D printing fumes dangerous to breathe, the honest answer is: sometimes, and the variable is mostly you and … Read more

Knowing how to vent 3D printer fumes from a room takes three layers: contain emissions at the printer, filter or discharge the captured air, … Read more

The fastest way to work out how to reduce 3D printer noise in a bedroom is to attack the three paths the sound takes … Read more

Your corners lift because the plastic contracts as it cools, and at a corner there is the least material holding that contraction down. Sharp … Read more

For most functional FDM parts, 30-40% infill with three or four walls and a cubic, gyroid or tri-hexagon pattern is the sweet spot for … Read more

If your prints have lumpy arms, collapsed roofs or droopy faces, the fix usually takes about five minutes in your slicer. Learning how to … Read more

Elephant’s foot is the flare where the bottom one to three layers of an FDM print spread wider than the part sitting on top … Read more