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Heat Has to Go Somewhere: Designing 3D Printed Parts That...
Plastic is a thermal insulator and an electrical insulator, and both of those facts are usually treated as background. They are not background. They are the two properties that decide whether a printed part becomes a housing, a bracket, a duct, or a part that quietly fails at month eight...
Draw It Once: Modeling 3D Printed Parts So They Fit...
Almost every failed 3D print that was not a printer problem was a drawing problem wearing a printer problem's clothes. The machine did what it was told. The part came out at exactly the size the file asked for. It just did not fit — because the file asked for the wrong thing. This is not an...
Vacuum, Bellows and Blow: Designing 3D Printed Pneumatic Parts That...
What changes when air is the payload instead of a load: material permeation, cup lip geometry, bellows stroke limits, valve seating, duct pressure drop, and how to test a printed pneumatic part in twenty minutes without instrumentation.
