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Pausing 3D Prints – Tech Tips Revealed

Tracy's back to try and "Out-tech Tom," as listener Vicky Somma put it. How to manipulate your 3D printer settings and G-codes to pause a print. Not a beginner topic by any means, but valuable information for printer companies to know what customers need and that a significant amount of users are wanting specific features […]

Challenges of the 3D Print Market

Contemplating the many challenges of the 3D print design market, such as trying to appeal to a market that doesn't even know 3D printing exists yet, or that they need or want 3D printed products. Is it the right move to gain investors, or wait the market out a bit more to when it has […]

Are We Really Worried About Our Designs Being Stolen?

In response to our episode with Hector from 3D Shook, Joseph, a long-time listener said he was really happy with Hector’s response to our question about being worried about his STL files being distributed unfairly or stolen essentially. Joseph said he feels that our crippling fear of people stealing our designs is hurting us and […]

Can You Capture Other Parts in Your 3D Prints?

It's Tech Tuesday, and today's question is, "Is it possible to make a 3D print where you print part of it and put some other object of a different material into the middle of your print and keep printing over it? So you encapsulate it or capture something in your 3D print." It brings up […]

Is Anyone Actually Selling Any 3D Printed Products?

Long-time listener Eduardo Martini of Brazil recently posed yet another challenging question to us, "Is anybody actually selling anything in 3D printing? Not just giving it away, but selling?" While some designers are making money selling 3D printed products, the market and marketplaces for these designs might not be ready enough yet for you to […]