Lots of interesting topics this time! Tesla is apparently using last-minute 3D printed parts in the first Model Ys they delivered; Adrian Bowyer is proposing a novel print removal system; and the US Army has been working on a non-homogeneous 3D printing filament. But Stefan and Tom haven’t been idle, either and have been working on the Toolchanger …

Are Makerspaces Viable?, SolveSpace, Ender 3 Mag Bed plateBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

This episode of the 3DPod is one without me in it. I had to miss this one since I was getting evacuated from Ecuador, exciting times. Instead of me, you got a bunch of good people though. Max hosted together with 3DPrint.com’s own Michael Molitch-Hou. Today the subject was very specific about Velo3D metal 3D printing. Velo3D can now make 1m tall pa…

PETG and a Hotend fail, Under Extrusion Nightmare, More on threaded InsertsBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

S3D and the TC revisit, Reviewing our Standards for Quality, Revisit Mesh CompensationBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

Fried Vancraen is a hero of mine and my old boss. So Max and I were able to have a very laid back but altogether important conversation with him about COVID, what it’s like to have a company right now, what Materialise is doing vis a vis COVID and the future. We really enjoyed speaking about how a large company in our industry is rising to the chal…

It’s The Meltzone Lockdown edition! Tom is running out of home improvement store goods while Stefan is holding himself over with VR and finally building his E3D Toolchanger. We’re also talking about printing faceshields and other PPE and how getting organized is really important right now. Also, Makerbot is supposedly opening up their Method 3D pri…

What would you order if you could?, 100% Dense Breakaway Support, E3D Hemera, First LookBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

Ender 3 Upgrades, Jubilee Toolchanger, SLA Talk an Formalbs 3 revisitBy Andy Cohen & Whitney potter

This was a highly personal podcast for all of us. Max had gone from New York to Boston, I’m stuck in South America but Davide was in the most precarious position in one of the worst-hit areas in Milan, Italy. What we spoke about this time is COVID-19. We tried to ignore this disease here at 3DPrint.com but due to the industry’s valiant efforts in t…

Resufacing an Ender 3 build plate, Learning Gcode , PETG and the Toolchanger

On this content packed episode, Tom and Stefan talk about their recent live streaming efforts, VR, the newly added FFF slicer in Fusion360 and why Stefan thinks it’s a challenge to add gears to his new plastics shredder. There are currently a lot of efforts being done to use 3D printing for medical equipment due to the current Corona pandemic. Both…

Loving the Duetwifi, Baby Yodas, Wiping for PETGBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

Update: After the blanket travel ban from Europe, MRRF has officially been canceled / postponed. In this episode, we talk about Stefan’s new Toolchanger, more use cases for LW-PLA and our (back then still relevant) plans for MRRF 2020! Drop your questions for upcoming episodes in the comments on YouTube or tweet them @TheMeltzone. Subscribe to the …

Ender 3 Build Plate, Refining the purge and wipe on the Toolchanger, Why is there a cost curve for 3D Printers?

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Ender 3 Fail, Headlamp bracket, Toolchanger and different materialsBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

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The case against Open Source, Nimble Motor MountBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

Tom and Stefan talk about the upcoming events that they’ll attend including Malta Maker Fair and MRRF2020. Both recently released a material testing video and discuss if resin prints are really isotropic and why lattice or porous structures performs the way they do. Tom got kicked from the Amazon.com affiliate program and explains how that happened…

Thingiverse Collections, Petg the good & the not so good, An Innovative Multi Nozzle designBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

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Designing Multi-material objects, Formlabs 3, Multi-Jet discussionBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

Flashforge first cloned Makerbot – and now it looks like Makerbot are selling Flashforge’s machines? That and a discussion on the (non) availability of the Elegoo Mars Pro, our take on Linus’ “I’ve been thinking about retiring” stream and our pros and cons to using “servos” on 3D printers in this episode of The Meltzone! Drop your questions for upc…

How the ToolChanger can go beyond four materials at one time., HP MultijetBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

Complexity in Setting Simplyfy3D for the Toolchanger, A Yoda update, Inserting Brass InsertsBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

Toolchanger wiping and purging, Cults3D.com, Zesty NimbleBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

Toolchanger and S3D, Paneldues, Price, Convenience and reliabilityBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

Tom and Stefan are back from their holiday break and meet up in the “real” CNC Kitchen. They talk about current projects like Stefans work on Colorfabbs Light Weight PLA (LW-PLA). Both discuss the recent problems with the Hermera Extruder and how E3D is handling it. The topic of the week covers the differences between Teflon-lined hotends and full …

Tool speculation, Tiny Tool Paths, Cults3D.comBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

Is Prusa turning on the open-source community by requiring you to physically damaging the Mini’s board to run custom firmware? That’s our big topic of the week! Well, technically, topic of the bi-week? Stefan has been working on a surprisingly simple and universal variable infill algorithm while Tom has been trying to combine the advantages of fila…

Toolchanging nozzle drool, Discussiing Toolchanging, A tip on cutting the tipBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

Commissioning the Toolchanger, 3D Printed Guitar fail, Trinamic DriversBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

And we have another new podcast for you! This time Max and I discuss Formnext and I (hopefully) regale you with news from the front. We discuss how immense formnext was and what I thought that the most exciting things were that I saw. Then we make an abrupt pivot to discuss the ethics of 3D printing covering the right to access, digital divide, bio…

Getting out of a Door jam shim, The Tool Changer Gets Limit Stops, E3D Titan feeder, Thingiverse GroupsBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

Tom and Stefan have been at Formnext 2019 the week before and talk about their impressions.The news cover the current state of Lulzbot and also that Generative Design for Fusion360 is currently available for free. Podimo, a German startup wants to be the Netflix of Podcasts. Both discuss if they like their business model and if the even want to be …

High Temp Bed heater, Clone puzzles, Kisslicer Print SpeedsBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

Today Max and I return to the world of 3D scanning. We have a guest, Anna Zevelyov who is a co-founder and CEO of Thor3D. Thor3D’s is a 3D scanning company that makes handheld 3D scanners for a range of applications. Anna goes into why 3D printing kiosks in stores have failed, why different scanning technologies work for different applications and …

Selective Powder Deposition, Sensorless Homing, Toolchanger wiringBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

Toolchanger Motion control, Pros and Cons of DeltasBy Andy Cohen & Whitney potter

Today we had an episode that was a free-ranging discussion between Max and myself on the people we admire in 3D printing. First off, we have to admit to being rather embarrassed that we forgot so many people. We forgot to mention E-NABLE for example and all the great folks working on that for example. So we’re both a bit sorry for being scatterbrai…

Prepping for the tool changer, More stuff on Metal 3D Printing, Printing Particle BoardBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

Remake of Make, Trade war hurting 3DP?, No way to get a thing pulled unless it’s in violation of copy rightBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter

It’s finally a normal episode with Stefan & Tom again! We talk about our experiences with travelling to shows and what we enjoy doing when our calendars are not stuffed with events. Tom uses an E3D Supervolcano for the first time and gets different findings to what Stefan has seen in other high-speed printing setups. Also, there’s been a lot of stu…

In this week’s special episode from the East Coast RepRap Festival 2019, Tom talks to Keith (as a non-representative of Proto-Pasta) about their ERRF highlight, how the terrorist attack in Halle seems to have used 3D printing to fabricate firearm parts and what we should (or can) do about it. Also, Proto-Pasta’s experiences in shipping a filament e…

Toolchanger email, Photogrammetry in Caves, Heat creep melt down

Back from vacation, Comparing low-end metal 3D Printers, Tapping plastic

On this special Podcast Episode Stefan visits a YouTube Creators Event in the UK and talk with his two fellow YouTube creator Tom Stanton and Ivan Miranda about cool gadgets they own and how they use their CNCs where 3D printing is not sufficient anymore. Tom Stanton: https://www.youtube.com/user/tomstanton282 Ivan Miranda: https://www.youtube.com/…

What happens when you 3D Print Sculptures, What makes an objecxt easy to print Vs hard., Cura and the Creawsome pluginBy Andy Cohen & Whitney Potter