Use Case – 3D printed sensor enclosure for single track tablet/capsule counting machine Materials – Nylon with brass M3 inserts for sensor mounting Creator – ‎Michel van der Meij‎ of XIAC,  

Beautiful Kevlar® and Nylon powder baskets that make perfect use of the material properties. The nylon flexes to absorb impact and transmits the force to the kevlar. Chris Hayes also optimized the layout of the fiber in the MarkForged software – see the screenshot below for a detailed view of the Kevlar® layers. From the Thingiverse [...]

During the production review meeting yesterday, October 22nd, one of the issues raised was that the composite spool tensioners were being irregularly aligned in new Mark One composite 3D printers. This doesn’t degrade the performance of the printer but does significantly impact the aesthetics. Like Steve Jobs, we believe every component matters even the invisible or [...]

MarkForged has a building full of superb mechanical engineers with the world’s highest concentration of 3D Printing experience. Consequently, we print solutions to a lot of problems in the MarkForged machine shop. The three problems solved in this blog post are making a skimmer reservoir, creating a base for a wobbly filter and making it easier to build [...]

Dan Topjian is the Senior Applications Engineer at MarkForged. When not on site helping customers or printing test parts, he’s at his desk rocking out and testing the Eiger software that runs the MarkForged printer. Dan’s phone has an awkward design with the microphone on the bottom and speaker on the back. A holder [...]

Fiber Reinforced 3D Printing Provides Military-grade Toughness for the Genasun-II CM When the U.S. Marine Corps needed a way to guarantee the life of their most ubiquitous field battery, Genasun was ready to upgrade their fail-proof, solid-state MPPT solar charge controller into a field-ready portable charger for the Corps’ workhorse BB-2590 Lithium Battery. Rapid prototyping is a [...]

Tony Nutile is the leader of Mark One printer support at MarkForged. He spends a lot of time printing, both to troubleshoot problems and to test software and hardware updates. This gave him two problems to solve, a need to have a convenient empty spool for testing different continuous carbon fiber samples and a [...]

Carl also created this tripod in OnShape to have a tripod on hand at MarkForged. Carl is an avid photographer and is always looking for more equipment. Why not manufacture his own using continuous carbon fiber reinforcement? Both the top of the tripod and legs shown in the pictures are nylon with continuous carbon fiber composite reinforcement. The reinforced nylon [...]