ABS has a reputation for being one of the more difficult filaments to work with. Even experienced makers often throw up their hands and stick to PLA or PETG when ABS refuses to behave. The usual ...

One of the biggest issues that plague the desktop 3D printing world is a pesky nuisance known as warping. Warping is due to Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene plastic (or or ABS as it's commonly known) ...

3D printing is a big deal. It enables the average person to quickly whip up a fix for something around the house, a cool toy, some functional equipment for hobbies, or even rapidly prototype a new ...

I got a free roll of ABS with a 3D printer I bought recently. It is natural colour ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene). ABS, I believe, was one of the original 3D print filaments. It has a ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MakerBot, a Stratasys company (Nasdaq: SSYS), today introduced a new game-changing solution that significantly simplifies 3D printing with ABS polymer material by ...

I have been printing bungs for a Swiss ball – the big plastic exercise balls the size of a Space Hopper – from which the a friend lost the bung. It took three goes to get the size right – tapered fit, ...

A lot of the ‘prosumer’ – for as much as I hate that word – 3D printers out there like the Makerbot Replicator and countless other Kickstarter projects only officially support PLA filament. This has a ...

A few years back, there were some studies on the chemical and particle emissions coming out of the hotends of 3D printers. Although they galvanized a lot of people in the community, the science wasn’t ...