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 Threaded components, holes and bolted connections are integral to a wide variety of engineering parts that you make and work with every day — so [...]

Update: If you are interested in learning more about how different fills can strengthen your part in various ways and the science behind it, join us on June 21 at 11am EDT for a webinar (Register here)! Writer's Note: This is the second post of our two part series on designing the strongest possible parts with Eiger's [...]

Update: If you are interested in learning more about how different fills can strengthen your part in various ways and the science behind it, join us on June 21 at 11am EDT for a webinar (Register here)! Writer's Note: This is the first of a two part post about using Eiger's Isotropic Fiber fill pattern to make [...]

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 [...]

You may have already noticed that Carl Calabria keeps things organized here at MarkForged. He keeps the tools clean and organized; this both increased productivity and sets the tone for a clean, organized company culture. Carl is also a fan of constantly improving, so he designed this part to both organize the tool set used to maintain [...]

A Sandwich Panel is the composites version of an I-Beam. I-Beams are common members for building because they are very efficient at carrying bending and sheer loads along the plane of the web. The Flange on the I-Beam carries the load, while the web transfers the sheer stress. Metals beams are commonly used at a large scale, like buildings and load bearing frames. [...]