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Inside 3D Printing San Diego 2017 Recap

By Tracy and Tom Hazzard

WTFFF 501 | Inside 3D Printing San Diego

Is the 3D printing industry progressing fast enough? Is AI going to take the place of engineers and designers? Such questions were answered in Inside 3D Printing San Diego 2017. Although a smaller event compared to last year, it was the panel track and the attendees that pulled the event together and made the trip worth taking. Product designers and business owners from Idaho, Colorado and even Guatemala came in to learn what they need to explore and how they can expand in terms of software, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 3D Printers, 3D Printing Topics, Business, Designers, Education, Featured, Tips & Tools, Vol. 3, WTFFF?! Podcast, WTFFF?! Show Notes Tagged With: 3d printing podcast, 3d start point, 3d-printing, additive manufacturing show, Barbara Hanna, Braydon Moreno, CES, Collider, Cyant, feetz, form alloy, inside 3d printing, john hauer, lucy beard, makerbot replicator 2s, nora toure, sculpteo, shapeways, slant 3d, voodoo manufacturing, women in 3d printing

CAD Part Size vs. Actual 3D Printed Size

By Tracy and Tom Hazzard

WTFFF 480 | Actual 3D Printed Size

  In today's episode, Tom and Tracy Hazzard talk about CAD part size versus going to your actual 3D printed size. They discuss how and why this is a problem, and also provide some great tips and examples of what you can do to avoid this problem or how you can deal with it when such issues with actual 3D printed size arise.   CAD Part Size vs. Actual 3D Printed Size   We have had some requests for some more tech questions, tech topics. We've got a good one and it's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 3D Printing Topics, Education, Featured, Software, Tips & Tools, Vol. 3, WTFFF?! Podcast, WTFFF?! Show Notes Tagged With: 3d hubs, 3d print, 3D print files, 3D Printer, 3d printing podcast, Actual 3D Printed Size, CAD Part Size, CAD Part Size vs. Actual 3D Printed Size, sculpteo, shapeways, voodoo manufacturing

3D Printed Wedding Favors

By Tracy and Tom Hazzard

In today's episode, Tom and Tracy Hazzard share their experience creating 3D printed wedding favors for their daughter's wedding. They talk about how much time it took to create the designs, to test print and iterate, and to do the actual printing. They provide tips that you can apply to your situation if you ever have to 3D print wedding favors or things of that nature for yourself, a friend or relative, or for your business. They also explain how 3D printing has added a very personal touch to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 3D Printing Topics, Business, Designers, Featured, Tips & Tools, Vol. 3, WTFFF?! Podcast, WTFFF?! Show Notes Tagged With: 3d print, 3D print wedding favors, 3D printed wedding favors, 3d-printing, DB Creativity, voodoo manufacturing, wedding favors

3D Print Volume Discounts?

By Tracy and Tom Hazzard

WTFFF 446 | Volume Discounts

  In this episode, Tom and Tracy Hazzard talk about volume discounts in the 3D printing industry. They discuss how and why volume discounts are not applicable in 3D printing and additive manufacturing. They also talk about how shopper mindset has to change on this topic, and why that change is not going to happen overnight. Listen to the podcast here: 3D Print Volume Discounts? Today, we’re going to talk volume discounts. Do volume discounts exist or can they or will they exist in 3D … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 3D Printing Topics, Business, Featured, Materials, Retail & Services, Tips & Tools, Vol. 3, WTFFF?! Podcast, WTFFF?! Show Notes Tagged With: 3d modeling, 3d print business, 3D print design, 3d print podcast, 3D printed model, 3d printing podcast, 3d-printing, additive manufacturing, design experts, etsy, shapeways, volume discounts, voodoo manufacturing

Retail 3D Print on Demand is Here!

By Tracy and Tom Hazzard

WTFFF 322 | Retail 3D Print on Demand is Here!

A really exciting development in the retail 3D print world is a Lowes project called Bespoke Designs. It is a proof of concept kind of test run coming out of the Lowe's Innovation Labs which is right at their Charlotte offices and a partnership between a bunch of 3D printing companies, 3DShook, Voodoo Manufacturing, and then also Digital Forming which we couldn’t get them in time for this show but we are going to do a whole separate show because they need it. It is cool 3D visualization software … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 3D Printing Topics, Business, Designers, Featured, Retail & Services, Vol. 2, WTFFF?! Podcast, WTFFF?! Show Notes Tagged With: 3d print business, 3d print customization, 3d print on demand, 3d print podcast, 3d-printing, 3dshook, bespoke designs, design experts, digital forming, entrepreneur, exone, Jasmine Evans, Jasmine Griffin, lowe's, market proof, market testing, product design, product design manufacturing, retail 3D print, virtual inventory, voodoo manufacturing, voodoo mfg, zero inventory

3D Print Power Consumption – How Much Power Does a 3D Printer Use?

By Tracy and Tom Hazzard

WTFFF 262 | 3D Print Power Consumption

We are going to take a bit of a deeper dive into 3D print power consumption. We have been wondering about this for a while. We talked about it in passing but we did not have a lot of data. We also considered talking about this during Earth Week but it ended up getting bumped for another topic, which was Beer Filament. Filaments have a bigger environmental impact on 3D printing, than the electricity consumption. As we have been mapping out potential businesses involved in 3D printing, we have … [Read more...]

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