One of the best parts about working for an industrial strength 3D printing company is that you always have access to create strong and functional parts whenever an idea strikes. Over the past two years, there's been a sharp rise in the prevalence of functional 3D printed parts showing up in our employees' lives – [...]
Today, we're excited to announce the release of the first new high performance material for our Mark Two Enterprise Kitcustomers — High Strength, High Temperature (HSHT) Fiberglass! This new fiberglass is twice as strong as our standard fiberglass filament and has a 30% higher heat deflection temperature (HDT) at 140 C, while remaining a more affordable option [...]
Well-designed jigs and fixtures enable efficient, lean manufacturing processes, but the engineering investment required to produce them can be limited to resource-constrained operations. Here, we show you how Markforged is using our Mark Two printers to improve our quality control processes by developing better manufacturing tooling with 3D printed parts. Standing behind every Markforged printer [...]
Here at Markforged, we're constantly subjecting our printers to a barrage of various testing. Our goal is to torture our printers in house harder than our most demanding customers. One of the ways we find new and complicated geometries to test is by integrating industrial strength 3D printing extensively in our in-house operations. Whether [...]
Update: If you want to learn more about designing flexural elements and living hinges, watch the webinar recording about designing flexural elements and living hinges! Original Post: MarkForged Mechanical Features [MMF] is a series of blog posts detailing best practices for designing common traditional engineering parts and mechanical features for composite reinforced 3D printing with MarkForged printers Welcome to [...]
[This post was written by Carl Calabria, our Senior Vice President of Engineering] Traditional woodworkers enjoy using dovetail and mortise and tenon joints to fasten pieces of wood together when glue alone will not suffice. I count myself among them. When it comes to non-critical projects where speed trumps elegance, I will reach for my [...]
Last Friday at our Part of the Week event here at MarkForged, one of our engineers showcased and won the weekly contest with his rendition of a quadcopter: Samrat leveraged the Hovership MHQ2 design from Thingiverse as a foundation for his quadcopter. He made some adjustments to the design: an increase in plate thickness by 2mm for more body stiffness and an [...]
3D printed soft clamping jaws for aluminum components. By day, Rob works as a mechanical designer in a machine shop specializing in industrial conveyor chutes and processing equipment. He designs in Inventor and CAM in HSM 2016. By night, Rob manufactures parts for RC cars, which he has sold online for the past eight years. Lately [...]
We've been talking about inserts a lot this week at MarkForged. The ability to add embedded hardware is one of the aspects of additive manufacturing that strongly differentiates it from traditional manufacturing methods. You can add magnets, RFID chips, hardware controllers or many other types of embedded hardware. A part Dan likes to use to demonstrate this ability during MarkForged [...]
Autometrix manufactures automated textile cutting systems, pattern design and pattern digitization software. The cutting systems are CNC based, boasting the smoothest, fastest motion control available. Autometrix machines are used all over the world to make clothing, sails, equipment insulation and much more. Autometrix uses the Mark One Composite 3D Printer for prototyping and plans to [...]
