Printing with X3D Premium Twinkling Filament

/ 11/13/2016
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">T</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">o celebrate the arrival of our new X3D premium twinkling filament, we’ve created a How To article!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">X3D Twinkling Filament is a great way to add that extra sparkle to your 3D print! It's made of a Polymer composite <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">PLA</span> material, with a higher strength and toughness in comparison to regular <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">PLA</span>. It is also biodegradable, has a low shrinkage rate along with good rigidity. Printed objects will have a twinkling sparkle, giving that extra something to your print. Like <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">PLA</span>, twinkling filament is tough, odourless, with low shrinkage, good rigidity and no heated print bed necessary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recommended nozzle temperature is 190-220℃ along with a printing speed of 50-60 mm/s. Recommended heat bed temperature is 50℃ (a heated bed is not necessary however) along with keeping your printer fans on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The X3D formula is RoHs compliant and tested for quality on all our X3D range of 3D printers. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">X3D Premium</span> is the professional filament of choice. It also comes with a no fuss return or refund guarantee.</span></div>
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| Extrusion Temperature | 190-220<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">℃</span> |</div>
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| Print Bed Temperature | 50<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">℃ </span>(Though not necessary) |</div>
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| Speed | 50-60 mm/s |</div>
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Printing with X3D Premium Twinkling Filament

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3D Printing helps lead the alternative energy movement

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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">3D printing can be a force of good in many of life's areas. From 3D printing prosthetic limbs to creating food that could feed thousands, there seems to be no limit to the impact 3D printing can have on the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Now 3D printing is being used to battle climate change and global warming. A previous blog entry details the use of <a href="http://x3dprinting.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/3d-printing-joins-fight-to-save-our.html" target="_blank">3D printing to help regenerate coral reefs</a> and now there is even more that can be done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Wind energy development has been gaining momentum due to 3D printing as they are less expensive to manufacture and prototype, leading to faster product development. This also applies to solar power design, which coincidentally is the fastest growing source of energy production. Solar </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Solar panels are faster to produce and easier to install thanks to 3D printing and nanotechnology. <a href="https://3dprint.com/14885/3d-printing-solar-panels/" target="_blank">Researchers in Australia are currently working on 3D printing solar cells directly into the surfaces of buildings. </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px;">Dubai has taken a keen interest in 3D printing and are aiming to make the city-state one of the ten most sustainable cities in the world by 2020. Dubai has been printing solar panels as well as investing in other waste reducing, energy saving infrastructure.</span></div>

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The Pokémon Go craze has arrived

/ 7/15/2016
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">For those 3D printing enthusiasts out there, there is no better time to start printing Pokémon products for yourself as well as friends and family. There are a plethora of ready made 3D files on Thingiverse. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Thingiverse user </span><a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/FLOWALISTIK" style="font-family: helvetica;">FLOWALISTIK</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> has created low-poly versions of the starter Pokémon </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:319413">Squirtle</a></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">, <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:323038"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Charmander</span></a>, <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:327753"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bulbasaur</span></a> and <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:376601"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Pikachu</span></a> respectively. There are also 3D files of <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:411193">Pokéballs </a> that open, complete with stand</span> by <a href="http://intentional3d/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">International 3D</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">X3D has a wide variety of filament colours in PLA , ABS and other specialty plastics that can be used to print your favourite Pokémon. What’s more, we currently have a 3 for 2 deal: <a href="http://www.x3d.com.au/" target="_blank">Buy 2 rolls of X3D premium filament and get another roll free! </a></span></div>
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The worlds first 3D printing restaurant

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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Currently operating in Venlo, the Netherlands, Food Ink will pack up shop and travel to London in late July. The pop-up gastropub lets diners eat in a 3D printed environment with the majority of the restaurants furniture (including 3D printed stools by architect Arthur Mamou-Mani) instructed via 3D printing.</span></div>
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3D Printing joins the fight to save our coral reefs

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The dangers of coral reef bleaching are upon us. The rising water temperatures due to global warming are cooking coral reefs and in turn, are eroding their colour and very life. Ecologists are racing to save coral reefs before they are lost forever, and one viable solution is 3D printing.<br />
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Coral reefs are home to algae, zooplankton as well as a variety of sea creatures. Coral reefs help support a quarter of all ocean life as well as helping guard against coastal erosion.  The algae living inside coral supplies nutrients that helps create its vivid colour. Unfortunately radical cuts to carbon pollution will do little to slow their demise as a warming of only 1.5% will put 90% of coral reefs at risk.<br />
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When stressed coral ejects its algae and turns white (coral bleaching.) If this continues for an extended period of time, the coral then dies. Our unusually warm waters have caused mass bleaching worldwide. Adding to this dilemma is carbon pollution which have turned oceans more acidic, making it harder for coral polyps to absorb calcium and become the coral we all know and love.<br />
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Baby coral are drawn to healthy white or pink coloured reefs with crevices and holes where they will be safe from being destroyed or eaten by predators. 3D printers are looking to recreate these environmental properties with 3D printed sandstone. Others have 3D printed artificial coral made of calcium carbonate. This coral would slowly dissolve in the reef and in turn make the surrounding waters less acidic.</div>

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3D printed prosthetic that could bring back the sense of touch

/ 6/09/2016
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the past prosthetic limbs were clunky and limited in function. Thanks to 3D printing, prosthetics can easily be made to custom fit its user as well as be designed for greater mobility and more complex functions such as playing sports. Now a group of researchers from various Australian institutions are taking it a step further to help restore ones sense of touch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A collaboration between the <a href="http://www.unimelb.edu.au/"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(45, 163, 242); color: #2da3f2;">University of Melbourne</span></a>, the <a href="https://www.uow.edu.au/index.html"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(45, 163, 242); color: #2da3f2;">University of Wollongong</span></a>, and several other institutions coordinated by <a href="http://acmd.org.au/"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(45, 163, 242); color: #2da3f2;">St. Vincent’s Hospital’s Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery</span></a> are studying the way the human arm communicates signals to the brain. They intend to reproduce that signalling process artificially.</span></div>
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3D printed prosthetic that could bring back the sense of touch

In the past prosthetic limbs were clunky and limited in function. Thanks to 3D printing, prosthetics can easily be made to custom fit its user as...

3D Printing enters the Victoria's Secret Runway Show

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Duck is given 3D printed prosthetic feet

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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Phillip the duck is waddling again thanks to his new 3D printed prosthetic feet, After losing his feet to frostbite, Phillip the duck was going to be put down until Middle school teacher Jason Jischke called Phillip's rescuer Rabe-Harrison, to let her know his class was working on printing Phillip replacement feet.</span><br />
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It took six weeks of testing to get the prosthetic feet just right for Phillip. They used TPE flexible filament which can be stretched up to to twice its original length before returning to it's original form when released. Phillip the duck is getting used to his new 3d printed feet at an animal sanctuary north of Milwaukee.</div>
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Phillip the duck is waddling again thanks to his new 3D printed prosthetic feet, After losing his feet to frostbite, Phillip the duck was going to...

Printing with Nylon

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<b>Preorder our new X3D Nylon filament here: <a href="https://www.x3d.com.au/store/product/29276-x3d-premium-nylon-white-1-75mm-b-1kg-b-">https://www.x3d.com.au/store/product/29276-x3d-premium-nylon-white-1-75mm-b-1kg-b-</a></b></div>
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Nylon is a stronger, durable and more versatile alternative 3D printing material to your regular PLA and ABS. It is low friction coefficient with the strength of injection molded parts. Flexible when thin and with the ability to bond incredibly well, Nylon is great to print functional parts with (such as hinges or gears.)</div>
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Nylon needs an all-metal hot end in order to print at temperatures above 240 C. A heated bed is also recommended as nylon has a tendency to warp like ABS.</div>
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As nylon absorbs water from the air you must make sure that it is dry before you print. Dry nylon prints smoothly with a glossy finish. When water absorbed nylon is printed, the water in the filament causes air bubbles during printing that prevents good layer adhesion, weakens the part and ruins the surface finish.</div>
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To celebrate the arrival of our new X3D Nylon filament, we’ve created a How To article! Preorder our new X3D Nylon filament here: https://www.x3d.com.au/store/product/29276-x3d-premium-nylon-white-1-75mm-b-1kg-b- Nylon...

3D Printing Basics

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3D printing has taken the world by storm in the last couple of years with its promise of revolutionising the way we think and the ability to create tangible objects without any traditional sculpting or engineering skills.</div>
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<b>How do filament 3d printers work?</b></div>
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Filament 3D printers slowly draw the printed design into existence layer by layer. one slice at a time (think how one layers icing on a cake.)</div>
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The printer extrudes filament out of a heated nozzle, producing an even thinner cord of filament. The nozzle moves over the print bed surface and draws the outline of your creation. It then fills this outline and moves onto the next layer.</div>
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Due to the materials heat, it bonds to any filament already laid down, forming a solid slice of material. This technique produces a surface with slight grooves within each layer. These can be removed via sanding, polishing or using an acetone solution on the object.</div>
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Filament 3D Printers can struggle with overhanging shapes since it is building on top of a layer below. This is why supports are used, that can be snapped or dissolved off afterwards.</div>
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The most common type of 3D printing filament. PLA has the virtue of being odourless and low-warping. It eco-friendly, biodegradable and is a corn starch based plastic.</div>
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Available in a wide range of colours it also comes in both 1.75mm and 3.0mm sizes. But is not as strong a build as its main alternative, ABS. PLA can be used on all filament based 3D printers and requires no heat bed. <a href="https://www.x3d.com.au/store/product/19900-x3d-premium-pla-1-75mm-b-1kg-b-" target="_blank">If you are looking for superior print quality at an affordable price then look no further than X3D Premium PLA Filament.</a></div>
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ABS has rapidly been gaining ground as the filament of choice for 3D printers It is a multi-purpose strong material (think Lego) and is ideal for fully usable parts. Products made with ABS are very durable, withstand a wide range of temperatures, and tend to be more flexible/less brittle. <a href="https://www.x3d.com.au/store/product/19903-x3d-premium-abs-1-75mm-b-1kg-b-" target="_blank">Check out the X3D ABS premium range for a professional looking finish.</a></div>
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It is advised to use ABS with a heated print bed (80-120º C) as the filament will struggle to adhere to the print bed without it. </div>
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Like any chemical or plastic it is important that filaments are used in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions. Secondly only buy from a manufacturer whose filaments are RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) certified. All X3D Premium filaments are RoHS certified.</div>
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PLA does not emit dangerous fumes like ABS and is the filament of choice to use around school children. </div>
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1.75mm and 3.0mm are the two common diameters of 3D printing filament. The majority of 3D printers are designed to work with only one diameter filament. Check your printer specifications to determine find out which diameter is compatible with your printer.</div>
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The tighter your filament diameter tolerance is, the more consistent your printed results will be. All of the filaments we sell are manufactured with a tolerance of at least ± 0.05 mm to ensure accurate, more stable prints with consistent feeding.</div>
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In comparison to coils, spools are more easier to work. This is because they can be mounted conveniently as well as being able to distribute filament to your printer in a consistent, even manner.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">A new literacy program is being included in the curriculum of Australian schools as of this year. In an effort to keep up with other countries the Australian government has begun funding STEM.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span></div>
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STEM allows students to innovate, creating prototypes and products they design via 3D printing. The plan is to expose children to the innovative technology so it will help them in future jobs. STEM engages children in play-related activities, integrating skills early and making it fun to learn.</div>
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It offers an incredible experience by creating enthusiasm and increasing the knowledge needed for STEM orientated careers and more complex jobs. Students have been able to create space based observatories, robots to be used in international competitions, as well as building race-able F1 cars amongst other things.</div>
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Find out how to get started with the UP Plus 2 3D Printer, a favourite amounts Australian schools:  <a href="https://www.x3d.com.au/store/product/19945-up-plus-2-3d-printer">https://www.x3d.com.au/store/product/19945-up-plus-2-3d-printer</a></div>
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Introducing the Ultimaker 2+ Series

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The latest version in the Ultimaker series, the Ultimaker 2+ features powerful innovations thanks to Ultimaker and its user community. The new upgrades make this printer even more impressive and easier to use.</div>
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Check out the <a href="https://www.x3d.com.au/store/product/25652-ultimaker-2-" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Ultimaker 2+</a> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">or for a larger build volume, have a look at the </span><a href="https://www.x3d.com.au/store/product/20096-ultimaker-2-extended-" style="font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank">Ultimaker 2 Extended+</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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