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Pre-printing Tips for Flexible PolyJet Materials

Alexa Nahum
in 3D Printing
13 4 Beginner
PolyJet currently offers a number of flexible materials: Tango and Agilus30 families. This tutorial will provide some tips to optimize the performance of these materials, using the various settings in GrabCAD Print.
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How to Media Blast FDM Parts

GrabCAD Tutorials
in 3D Printing
1 0 Intermediate
The normal surface finish of FDM parts is suitable for most purposes, but in applications where a different finish is required, media blasting is an inexpensive and quick solution. Following the best practices helps reduce the risk of damaging or breaking a part when media blasting. The following is brought to you by Stratasys.
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Make the top surfaces of your 3D prints (almost) perfectly smooth with Cura “Ironing” setting

Gouza
in 3D Printing
0 0 Beginner
o you want to improve the quality of yours 3d printed Parts. the “Ironing” setting can help you get smooth surface of your 3d printes.. The setting can tremendously help with the topmost layer surface finish when printing objects with big flat areas on top (in my test case, it was a keychain I was making for a friend). For “curved” objects it should not matter. Here’s how it works: when the topmost layer is finished, it REPEATS it without moving the print head higher. The head moves in a more dense zig-zag pattern (customizable, default 0.1mm) with much lower extrusion multiplier – not sure if it was 5% or 10% by default, but in my test case I used 10%, and it worked flawlessly. This helps smooth out any surface irregularities and gaps on the topmost layer, hence the name: “ironing”. In this Video i schow my result – same model & same settings: https://youtu.be/N-XkWBtJQJY Please do not forget to schow some support and to subscribe my YT-channel
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