BigRep Industrial 3D Printers

Picture this: a client calls you with a request for a custom 24-inch-diameter clear globe light fixture. It needs to mimic glass, refract light beautifully, and be ready for an event with a deadline that's breathing down your neck. You could try to source it somewhere, but the lead time kills you. You could piece it together in sections made with a standa...

ASA and ABS are two of the most closely related engineering-grade filaments used in FFF printing. They print at similar temperatures, share comparable price points, and are regularly specified for the same categories of industrial parts. On the surface, the choice between them can seem like a minor technical detail. It rarely is.

The factor that se...

The bottleneck in many sand casting workflows isn’t the casting itself, it's the pattern.

A traditional wooden or machined-metal pattern can take weeks to build, run into the thousands of dollars, and require a skilled patternmaker to make it. Those people are getting harder to find every year. And every design change sends you back to the bench to...

Ask ten engineers what "resolution" means in 3D printing, and you'll likely get ten different answers. That's not because they're wrong - it's because the industry itself uses the term inconsistently.

Manufacturers advertise resolution figures that sound impressive but rarely map to what you'll actually see on a finished part. For manufacturing pro...