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About 3D design and printing on this blog

Articles covering CAD, 3D printing processes, scanning and how digital models become physical parts.

Three-dimensional work sits in the middle of almost every project we run. A concept becomes a solid model, the model becomes a printed or machined part, the part gets tested and the findings go back into the model. The articles collected here cover that loop: which CAD approach suits which product, when SLA beats FDM or MJF, what tolerances additive processes actually hold, and how scanning is used to reverse-engineer an existing object.

Much of it is written for people making their first physical part. If you are choosing between printing in-house and ordering from a service, or wondering why a printed prototype does not behave like the production part will, the practical answers live in these posts.