3D printers

Most common 3D printer part failures and ways to fight against them

Here is the PDF link to the Common 3D Printing Failures and How to Fight Against Them talk by Chris McCoy at the World Maker Faire in New York on September 20, 2014:  140919-common-3D-printing-failures-wmf-2014-NYC-v02 Did you not receive a “Wedgie” at the talk?   Download and print your own today!! http://www.bit.ly/wedgieSTL Here’s a link to Chris’s presentation information. In this article, I hope to give everyone general strategies to resolve the following issues (mainly for FFF-style 3D printers): Part delamination from build plate Mis-registration in your x and y axes Many extruder issues (clogging in nozzle, clogging in feeder, filament breakage, filament tangling, poor extrusion, inconsistent extrusion, etc.) Part warping Frozen or stalled 3D prints First layer issues Risks of leaving your printer alone (filament jams, tangled filament, etc.) Bed leveling common pitfalls Saving a print that’s had issues Overall, these problems are an artifact of early-adopter-version 3D printers.  Manufacturers of these machines are now very aware of some of these issues

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