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How to Store Markforged 3D Printing Materials

How to Store Markforged 3D Printing Materials How to store Markforged 3D Printing Materials. Are you struggling with wet material? Are your prints failing? Wondering how to make your 3D printing materials last longer? We've got the answers here. Just like you have to properly store aluminium and steel, materials for 3D printers [...]

Best Free 3D Printing Design Guides

Best Free 3D Printing Design Guides 2025 These are the best free 3D printing design guides available in 2025. If you're looking for a cheat sheet for additive manufacturing best practises, you've come to the right place. To help you find what you're looking for we've curated three of them, with summaries of [...]

Inspecting Parts with the Markforged FX10

Inspecting Parts with the Markforged FX10 GET IN TOUCH GET A SAMPLE What is Eiger Inspection? Inspecting parts with the Markforged FX10 is easy! Eiger is Markforged's dedicated 3D printing software, designed specifically for Markforged 3D printers and materials. It has facilities for managing printers, part [...]

Incorporating Nuts and Thread Inserts in 3D Prints with Markforged

Incorporating Nuts and Thread Inserts in 3D Prints with Markforged We're Mark3D UK Limited - The UK's #1 Markforged Partner - and we often get asked questions like ‘how do I incorporate a nut or insert in my 3D print’ and 'is it possible to 3D print threads in my part'? It's [...]

Can you break a 3D printed part?

Can you break a 3D printed part? [Video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmuC5ysw_v0   Can you break 3D printed components? Most people still think of toys or just-for-fun parts when they hear the words "3D printing". Some think of prototyping, but modern 3D printing has gone far beyond that. High-strength components, robotic grippers, assembly [...]

Hollywood Propmaster [Video] 3D Printing with Markforged

Hollywood Propmaster [Video] 3D Printing with Markforged Thingergy is one of the most in-demand Hollywood prop shops in the industry, and has worked on countless prestigious projects including Star Wars: Kenobi, The Umbrella Academy, Stranger Things, Westworld, and more. In this 6 minute video, self-titled “Big Cheese” at Thingergy Frank Ippolito shows off [...]

Fibre Override Sketching – New Eiger Tool

Fibre Override Sketching - New Eiger Tool One of the greatest strengths of Markforged technology is the ability to reinforce 3D printed objects with secondary materials, such as fibreglass, carbon fibre and Kevlar. These continuous fibres – as opposed to chopped fibres – give printed objects more rigidity and strength than traditional [...]

Tech tip: Setting different settings packages within a component

Tech tip: Setting different settings packages within a component Reasons & Advantages Composition of a setting package How do I proceed? (step-by-step instructions) The final component Reasons & Advantages When it comes to 3D printing, it is always necessary to optimize the settings for the production of [...]

Manufacturing mechanically and thermally resilient components with industrial 3D printing

Manufacturing mechanically and thermally resilient components with industrial 3D printing Choosing the right 3D printing material is also particularly important in additive manufacturing! Which technical properties are particularly important for my application? What do the terms bending strain and bending stress as well as tensile strength mean? How important are chemical, mechanical, [...]

Fieldmade AS and Mark3D UK Announce Strategic Partnership Agreement

An exciting new collaboration agreement between Fieldmade AS, the experts in mobile additive manufacturing, and Mark3D UK Limited, the UK’s largest Markforged reseller will provide local supply and support for the NOMAD® Lightweight (LW) range of portable 3D printing solutions throughout all sectors of the UK economy. Lillestrøm & Birmingham – October [...]