These last weeks, and after the article we made about the resin printer Phrozen Shuffle XL Lite, I have been working with a new closed machine on which I was interested in making a short article, the QIDI TECH X-Plus printer. The QIDI TECH X-Plus printer is developed by the well-known Chinese company QIDI Technology, which offers us both FDM ...
For some time now the SKR series from BigTreeTech have become a benchmark in the sector when we talk about electronic boards for 3D printing. The latest models SKR v1.4 and SKR v1.4 Turbo they have become extremely popular and it is not surprising to see them as standard in new releases of 3D printers that hit the market. However, ...
Currently, the vast majority of 3D printer manufacturers offer us the filament detection function (or lack of it, to be more precise) as something common. This means that when our spool of filament runs out, Marlin automatically stops the current job and offers us the ability to insert another spool without losing our current impression. And although most printers already ...
One of the things that caught my attention when I started to assemble my first 3D printer is that the different filaments that we use in 3D printing are capable of absorbing moisture, who would have thought 🙂 Obviously I was unaware that the plastics used in 3D printing – in this case plastic polymers – could accumulate moisture, and ...
As well you will know if you are a “regular” of our printing blog 3DWork.io, we are restless minds and we always love to develop external applications related to the world of 3D printing. If you remember, some time ago we prepared a very useful application called Marlin Builder, in which you can easily configure a Marlin firmware from your ...
3D Part post-processing techniques are some of the least enjoyable tasks in 3D printing and the most lazy (at least for me personally). Sometimes this work becomes something completely unavoidable. It can be due to the design or geometry, the layout of the piece or even its final function (such as a completely smooth finish). In this short article of ...
One of the most important manufacturers of electronics for 3D printing, specifically the company BigTreeTech , surprised us some time ago with a specific electronic board for the massive community of Ender 3 printer users. The name of this board was the SKR MINI E3 BTT and it was launched on the market in its initial version V1.2. This one ...
Lately the new electronic boards of the company BigTreeTech (SKR V1.4 and SKR 1.4 Turbo) are enjoying quite a notoriety within the world of 3D printing. And it is not surprising, since they have perfectly understood the “Maker” movement and have adapted to the needs of users and potential clients. Having different sockets for all types of displays, specific BLTouch/3DTouch ...
These days ago Makerbase has surprised us with two updates for its quite important MKS TFT35 v2.0 screens and it is worth noting. If you are a user of this type of screens on your 3D printer, I recommend that you update to the latest firmware version available, in order to enjoy all the added improvements. New firmware can be ...
If you are deranged by 3D printing, you have probably once left your machines printing without any monitoring. This is a fairly common practice, although it is certainly not recommended, since many problems can arise during the printing of your pieces. However, applications like Octoprint help us with the monitoring of our printer in a spectacular way. Being able to ...
One of the great applications of Raspberry Pi devices, of which I have been an unconditional fan for many years, is that of being able to monitor our 3D printers remotely over the Internet. This offers us the possibility to review our printed parts at all times, see if there has been a serious error during the process or simply ...
If you are deranged by the exciting world of Raspberry Pi, you are in luck. Now you can drastically increase the speed of it by booting your Raspberry Pi from USB. These devices are normally configured to boot naturally from an SDCard inserted for this purpose. This is where we install our entire operating system, such as Raspberry Pi OS. ...
One of the most important components of your 3D printer, and of any application that uses stepper motors, are the so-called drivers. These tiny boards are in charge of the important task of managing how the engines have to act in each and every one of their movements. And we are not talking about a small thing, for this they ...
As you well know, temperature is our best ally when it comes to printing parts with our 3D printer. Having a decent bed that can easily reach 100/110 degrees is very important , and will help us avoid possible Warping problems with more technical materials , such as ABS, Nylon or HIPS. Many of these materials require quite high bed ...
Recently a friend of the Telegram group, specifically the user Altair, ran into a strange problem in his electronic board MKS Gen L v1.0. The hotend temperatures become completely unstable, oscillating completely and thus preventing the correct regulation of our printer. It is a hardware problem that occurs in some of these boards, derived from some components, and it is ...
I recently had to upgrade a 32bit board (MKS Robin Nano de MakerBase) to install a Marlin firmware, specifically version 2.0.1. I usually use sublime and the arduino IDE, but this time I set about doing it with Visual Studio Code and its great extension Platform.io IDE. I had previously heard of it on our Telegram channel, but had never ...
A few months ago, exactly in June 2019, the development team behind the Raspberry Pi devices announced its new version, 4 specifically. These new versions brought important updates and benefits, especially in the performance of this devices. However, different users began to report different issues with these Raspberry Pi 4 boards. From intermittent WiFi connections, USB-C port cable and charger ...
Today in 3DWork.io we propose 6 Reasons why you should use glass bed in your 3D printer. As you well know, there are a large number of surfaces available for our 3D printers, and we will talk in the article a little about this. If this article generates some kind of controversy (hopefully so!), And you think that it is ...
Today in 3DWork.io we bring you an interesting article on how to configure a Raspberry Pi with Octoprint very easily, to be able to manage one or more 3D printers remotely from any web browser. I hope and hope that it can be of use to you. As always I remind you that we have a great community in our ...
Recently some users of the Telegram channel were interested in how to configure Marlin 2.0.x and they exposed it in the group. Having seen what I saw I thought, Why not write a complete guide to configure Marlin step by step? It was something that had been on my mind for a long time, since my printers continued to work ...
Literally, according to the manufacturer Josef Prusa, this STL file format is dead. And honestly, he is not without reason. There is no validation of triangular surfaces in STL format files, which results in invalid files being generated at any time. Before continuing, I want to remind you as always that we have a great community in our Telegram channel ...
There are a number of misconceptions about recent 3D printing technologies around the web that I wanted to talk about in today’s article. However, it is possible that some of these concepts could change in the not too distant future, who knows. In the short term it does not seem reasonable, since they lack a logical basis if we use ...
New 3D printers appear every day that provide us with previously unseen features and functionality. It is a fact that 3D printing technology advances slowly but inexorably. New printers, new materials, different printing systems, etc. It is becoming everyday to wake up with something new about the world of 3D printing, something that is welcome. Introduction Now, is it ...
Before talking about ChiTuBox I put you a little bit in context. Some time ago I received my new resin printer AnyCubic Photon and I started to mess with it right out of the box. This printer comes with its own official software for slicing, the AnyCubic Photon Slicer. While this software do its job perfectly, you are missing enough ...