This guest post was originally written by Charles Guan. He studied mechanical engineering at MIT and has also taught in the shop floor and design departments. He now works as a consulting engineer. He also builds combat robots. Markforged is sponsoring his participation in BattleBots, ABC's combat robot competition. Check out his website and Facebook page. [...]
Markforged Mechanical Features (MMF) is a blog post series about designing technical components for fiber-reinforced 3D printing with our Markforged 3D printers. This kicks off the MMF blog post series. Our customers often ask us how their usual technical features can be 3D printed. They want to take advantage of the properties of Markforged materials. In this and the [...]
In our current video series, we show you how to most efficiently integrate our Markforged 3D printers into your workflow. With Onyx, you can 3D print threads. Both internal and external threads can be produced precisely and without support material. This is possible starting with a thread size of M8. For smaller threads, you can use [...]
In our current video series, we show you how to most efficiently integrate our Markforged 3D printers into your workflow. Today, we'll show you how to apply glue to the build platform before 3D printing. Please only use the glue stick recommended by Markforged, as it's non-smearing and also acts as a release agent. [...]
A few months ago, we launched Onyx, a rigid, professional-grade composite material for end-use applications. Onyx takes part dimensional stability and 3D print success rates to a whole new level. In this article, we'll explore this in more detail. Dimensional stability refers to how well a 3D-printed part retains its shape during the printing process.
For special aesthetics or for marking, 3D-printed components can be engraved and colored. The following article explains how to highlight an engraving or lettering using a wax crayon. 1. The Wax Crayon A wax crayon fills in worn-out engravings with a wax substance. One of the most well-known applications for the use of [...]
With the MarkOne, Rest Devices of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, was able to 3D print fiber-reinforced molds for their baby sleep monitoring system, thus improving production times and product features. Cost Time Aluminum $150.63 96 hours + shipping Markforged 3D printed $12.10 10.75 hours Restful sleep with Mimo For new parents, their baby's sleep is fundamentally important. Rest Devices wants to improve children's [...]
Students at Olin College are using the MarkOne to redesign a quadcopter landing gear for whale research drones. Cost Time Workshop - Aluminum $ 661.08 3-5 days + shipping Markforged 3D printed $ 34.79 19 hours A hard setback: The Snotbot hurtles down on the Ocean Alliance research boat. The operator does his best to [...]
Markforged Mechanical Features Most 3D printing plastics aren't strong enough for printing threads. Their yield strength is significantly lower than that of metals. Even fiber reinforcements don't protect against high wear. Precision and high connection strength can only be guaranteed with metal threads. We've already explained how [...]
This begins a series of articles about our new Mark X 3D printer (revised in 2021: the new name of the Mark X is X7). This post focuses on the new production monitoring feature. This is the first step toward closing the production loop for 3D printed parts. Why the loop needs to be closed: Ideally, there would be a [...]
