We encourage our employees to create a 3D printed part on our printers every week. It provides a deeper understanding of the needs of our customers if we are a customer, too. Every Friday we take a break from work for Part of the Week where everyone showcases the parts they printed and we vote on which [...]

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 – [...]

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 [...]

[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 [...]

Dan Topjian, Sr. Application Engineer at MarkForged likes to keep things neat and ordered. While cleaning up the shop, Dan decided a reinforced nylon and Kevlar® cable clamp was exactly what he needed. Figuring that someone else must have solved this problem already he went to Thingiverse and found the Ratcheting Cable Clamp by MechEngineerMike. The design is great [...]

Ethan Steele is a sales representative here at MarkForged. He grew up in Massachusetts, went to California and then came back as an adult. He quickly noticed the devices that hold the gas pump handle open just didn't exist in Boston. In the winter, he was miserable standing out in the cold holding the [...]