My Comprehensive Guide to 3D Printing Filament

NickLievendag · 2014-10-30T18:41:57.000Z

I’ve been working on this for weeks and now it’s finally finished!

Read about ABS vs. PLA vs. many, MANY other innovative 3D Printing materials & learn how to choose the right Filament for your next design!

nicklievendag.com/filament-guide

Please let me know what you think and if you miss your favorite filament, so I can add it to the list!

Cheers,

Nick

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JulieSillam · 2014-10-31T10:38:00.000Z

Hey @FrancescoB might be interesting for you

Thanks Nick, cool stuff !

3D_Hjalp · 2014-10-31T10:49:20.000Z

Super nice guide!

FrancescoB · 2014-10-31T11:02:12.000Z

Yep, thanks Julie!
And thanks for sharing @NickLievendag, seems a pretty comprehensive guide

sandrako · 2014-10-31T12:44:00.000Z

That’s great! Finally a good overview, thanks for sharing

NickLievendag · 2014-10-31T17:19:45.000Z

Thanks! Learned a lot while writing it myself!

NickLievendag · 2014-10-31T17:19:55.000Z

Merci!

NickLievendag · 2014-10-31T17:20:28.000Z

Thanks! And I just added another one to it based on a comment: FPE (Flexibel PolyEster)

Filemon · 2014-11-04T09:40:47.000Z

Will read now! Thanks

Creastudiostore · 2014-11-04T09:43:00.000Z

Hi,

This is a nice article. Explains how to Vapor Smoothing 3D Printed Parts in PLA.

http://www.printedsolid.com/smoothpla/

Best Regards

Helder L. Santos

NickLievendag · 2014-11-04T09:49:22.000Z

Thanks Helder,

I didn’t even know that was possible.

I’m planning to write a seperate article about Vapor Smoothing and will use these tips in my experiements.

Cheers,

Nick

Andreas_CH · 2014-11-04T19:47:00.000Z

Nice writeup, seems to cover pretty much everything, and the illustrations are good as well. Thanks!

and about smoothing PLA, there is a story about Tetrahydrofuran too that seems to work almost as good as Acetone for ABS does:

http://www.protoparadigm.com/news-updates/vapor-smoothing-and-polishing-pla-with-tetrahydrofuran-thf/

Some other stuff i would like to experiment with at one point are fluorinated fluids that have a very specific steam temperature (the same fluids that get used in vapour phase soldering machines). Maybe if dipped just long enough into the right temperature of steam would work too, but it’s probably tricky to find the right process parameters for a given model geometry.