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Print a master, finish it, box it and pour silicone over it, then cast resin, soap or plaster copies by the dozen: a six-step guide with the silicone, resin, release agent, tools and safety gear to order for each stage.
Read the story →Design a buck with draft and vents, print it in ABS or PETG, pick a desktop former and the right sheet, then pull and trim clear or opaque shells: a six-step vacuum forming guide with the filament, machine, sheet stock and tools to order for each stage.
Print a pattern in burn-away filament, invest it in plaster, burn it out and pour aluminum: a seven-step lost-PLA casting guide with the filament, kiln, furnace, investment and safety gear to order for each stage.
Tom's Hardware gave the Prusa CORE One+ INDX a 4.5/5 Editor's Choice, praising a wiper-based toolchanger that purges just ~13mg of filament per color swap — no prime tower required — for $2,249.
Tom's Hardware's hands-on review of the Prusa/Bondtech INDX toolchanger on the CORE One+ Gen 2 finds induction-heated, purge-tower-free 8-color printing at Core-XY speed — for a real-world $2,249.
My Tech Fun's head-to-head found desktop PC-ABS from a Prusa Core One L and Bambu Lab H2D nearly matched a six-figure Stratasys Fortus 450mc on strength and beat it on looks, with dimensional accuracy the industrial machine's only clear win.
A side-by-side Izod impact test on matched Fiberlogy PETG and PCTG spools shows PCTG bending instead of snapping — but that toughness comes with ASA-like print temperatures.
A Hackaday analysis argues consumer FDM has stalled mechanically since 2020 even as color and tool-changing trickle down to budget machines — so is it time to look past the nozzle?
Building on his laser layer-adhesion work, YouTuber 'I Changed a Thing' bolted two diode lasers to an FDM printer's X-axis to remelt top surfaces near vapor-smoothed quality with no chemicals, though wall smoothing remains a much harder problem.
A syringe-pump extruder and a mineral-oil-and-fumed-silica support gel let a maker embedded-print a two-part-epoxy Benchy, hinting at FDM printing with materials no ordinary hot end can touch.
Somerset's library 3D printing service scanned a 1,700-year-old gold Roman signet ring with a Creality Sermoon P1 and printed a handling replica so museum visitors can hold what the fragile original can't survive touching.
Makers Sam Barker and Tom 3D-printed a working, seesaw-powered railway pump car small enough to pack in airline luggage, and gave the files away free on Printables.
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