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3D Printing Benefits for Architect and Interior Designers

Nowadays, architects and interior designers are facing more challenges like demanding turnaround times, personalizations, customizations and growing competition. But top architects and interior designers are turning these challenges into opportunities by giving themselves a competitive advantage — 3D Printing. With 3D Printing, architecture and interior design firms have gained significant productivity boost generating immense value to them. 1. Reinventing Model Making Process Not only is model making time consuming, but it’s also a chaotic, complex and labor-intensive process. But model making is a very important step that can be seldom overlooked. With traditional methods, it takes forever to create one physical model …

World's Lightest Satellite 3D Printed on a FabX 3D Printer

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India’s 3D Printer FabX 3D Prints the World’s Lightest Satellite

August 23, 2018August 6, 2022

On 24 August 2018, the world’s lightest satellite 3D Printed on a FabX 3D Printer will be launched by NASA. The launch is a part of the Cubes in Space contest organized by NASA and Idoodle Learning. The satellite weighs only 33.39 grams and is a creation of a young 4 member undergraduate team from Hindustan Institute of Technology and Sciences, Chennai. The lightest satellite previously was 3D Printed in Carbon Fiber and weighed about 64 grams and had a life of about 12 minutes in Micro gravity. So to reduce to weight even further, the team was on a …

3D Printers

4 Simple Steps to buy the Perfect 3D Printer

July 30, 2018January 4, 2023

Finding the right 3D Printer for your application can be quite challenging. As there are over five 3D Printing technologies and a ton of choices ranging from budget 3D Printers, 3D Printer DIY kit, Industrial 3D Printer and imported 3D Printers and list goes on. To make the whole process easy for you, we have put together this article for buying a 3D Printer. Okay. Let’s start then, 1. Do you really need to buy a 3D Printer? Yes, you may need the help of 3D Printing for your project. But do think about its recurrence. Ask yourself these two …

3D Printing Filaments

Top 5 Special Filaments for your 3D Printer

June 12, 2018August 6, 2022

Other than your classic PLA and ABS filaments, the 3D Printing community has nowadays provided with more and more choices to experiment from. Ranging from Silk to Wood to Metal, the list goes on and on. So, here are the top 5 filaments that you would love to try on your 3D Printer. 1. Rainbow / Multi Color Filament: Aptly named, this filament contains 4–5 colors blended into one spool. The filament comes in as a compromise for all those people who want to print multiple colors in one go using FDM technology. Apart from that it contains the same features …