If you have a 3D printer, chances are, the company you bought it from skimped out on the design of their filament holder. It’s okay though, it’s not like having a ...

Most 3D printer filament soaks up water from the air, and when it does, the water passing through the extruder nozzle can expand, bubble, and pop, causing all kinds of mayhem and unwanted effects in ...

3D Insider is ad supported and earns money from clicks, commissions from sales, and other ways. FDM technology has played a huge role in making 3D printing more accessible than ever. Filament-based 3D ...

Plastic waste is a big problem in our world today. It's important for makers who use 3D printing technology (which generates plastic objects) to consider the waste hierarchy paradigm. Here's the thing ...

This is an Arduino powered scale which holds your 3D filament and calculates approximately how much filament you have remaining on your spool in meters. It's fairly accurate (+/- 1 meters when whole ...

Richard Horne, also known as RichRap, has initiated a discussion on a uniform 3D filament spool standard and, in collaboration with the 3D Printing Association, has developed a design proposal based ...

3D Insider is ad supported and earns money from clicks, commissions from sales, and other ways. How frustrating would it be to have a ruined 3D printing project because of an entangled filament spool?

It is a common problem that users of fused deposition modeling (FDM/FFF) 3D printing face: what to do with the large amount of empty plastic spools? While some recycle them, many throw them away in a ...