Featured Resources

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  Getting Started: 3D Printing with VeroUltraClear

  When you’re trying to create glass-like 3D printed parts on your Stratasys PolyJet printers, VeroUltraClear™ should be your material of choice. This PolyJet material is the clearest 3D printing material on the market today. VeroUltraClear can be used for an array of clear 3D printing needs, including: Form and fit testing Simulation of transparent thermoplastics Concept modeling Design verification of clear parts VeroUltraClear parts are fabricated using a digital material made of VeroClear™ and VeroUltraClear materials. Printed parts automatically have a core made of VeroUltraClear and a VeroClear coating. To ensure that you get the best print possible, we’ve compiled a guide that reviews: Printer settings Orientation recommendations Post-processing tips Download this VeroUltraClear Best Practices Guide so you only get the best results. In addition, we also created a tutorial to walk you through the initial setup process: How to 3D Print with VeroUltraClear Note: VeroUltraClear is supported on Stratasys J7 Series or J835/J850 3D Printers Questions? Check out the Stratasys Support Center

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  Best Practices: Setting Up a 3D Printing Shop

  A poorly organized shop can waste time and lead to expensive accidents. In addition, the average shop of engineers and one operator wastes $15,000 a year updating Excel documents, communicating via email, and getting lost in order paperwork. With all the pressures listed above, it’s no surprise that these pressures lead to poor communication and workflow. We at GrabCAD understand these problems and all that goes into running your shops. Between managing employees, to managing work orders, to managing all the 3D printers – there’s a lot to juggle in a single day. That’s why we created this eBook. This eBook will provide best practices on how to run your 3D printing shop: How to organize your workspace How to choose a work order management software How to improve workflows with departments and employees Click here to download A 3D Printing Management Software like GrabCAD Shop can rid shop owners of productivity pains. GrabCAD Shop helps simplifies the hassle of receiving and requesting, tracking, managing, and fulfilling work orders by providing a seamless all-in-one workflow solution.

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  The Ultimate Guide to Starting and Running Your Internal 3D Printing Shop

  When was the last time you processed a new work order and thought, Wow, that was easy? It’s probably no secret to you that running an internal 3D printing shop and managing orders isn’t always a walk in the park—there are frustrations and inefficiencies for you, the shop operator, and for the engineers and designers who order from you. Those challenges can take many forms, but the bottom line is this: the current (typical) workflow for internal shops is too manual. We estimated all the waste this process causes and, for the average shop of one operator and about ten engineers and designers, as much as $15,000 and 10-20% of the operator’s time gets wasted on inefficient order management. When you look at all the pains, challenges, and waste inherent in the typical shop management process, it’s obvious there has to be a better way. And that’s where an internal work order management solution comes into play—a solution like GrabCAD Shop. This whitepaper offers everything you need to know about our cloud-based production management software, GrabCAD Shop, and how to start and run your own internal shop, including: How GrabCAD Shop benefits internal 3D printing model shops, university and high […]

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  Getting Started: PolyJet 3D Printing Materials

  Your 3D prints are only as strong, as flexible, as soft or as smooth as you make them. When it comes to PolyJet 3D printing and prototyping, it’s crucial to make sure you are working with the right materials to get the look, feel and function you want. Below, we explain the various PolyJet 3D printing material options and when you should use certain materials to get the results you want. Whether you’re looking for the strongest 3D printing material or the most flexible, there’s a material for every scenario. 3D Printing with Rigid Opaque and Transparent PolyJet Materials This tutorial gives you tips for how to use various rigid materials on Stratasys PolyJet printers. This includes the entire Vero family, as well as the VeroClear, VeroFlex, and VeroVivids. Vero: this photopolymer offer strength, stiffness and versatility in blue, white, black, gray, cyan, magenta and yellow. It’s ideal for 3D printing accurate parts for testing and surgical planning. Vero materials are also offered in clear, flex. VeroClear (RGD810) is a transparent PolyJet photopolymer for clear acrylic simulation. It offers strength and stiffness and can even blend with other materials. It’s ideal for form-and-fit testing of see-through parts. VeroFlex: this Vero […]

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  Getting Started: 3D Printing in Color

  3D printing in color gives you the ultimate control over your prints and the Stratasys J735 and J750 deliver full-color capabilities and color gradients. The tutorials below will teach you how to ensure you get the color you want every print. Soft Proofing Have you ever run into the expensive problem of seeing that the color you selected on your computer monitor doesn’t match the color on your 3D printed part? This happens because computer monitors use the RGB color gamut while both 2D and 3D printers use the CMYK color gamut. Each gamut has its own slightly separate range of colors. The following tutorials will help you navigate this problem using Adobe Photoshop®. Part 1: This tutorial is an introduction to Color Proofing. You’ll learn what to do when the color you print doesn’t match the color you chose on screen. Part 2: This tutorial will show you how to install the appropriate Stratasys profile onto your computer and use it to soft proof in Adobe Photoshop®. This will help you match your design expectations with the colors that are possible to print. Part 3: This tutorial goes in more depth on setting up a soft proofing workspace in Adobe […]

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  GRABCAD Print: The Why

  Before we officially launched GrabCAD Print, we wrote monthly “teaser” blogs that either described something that frustrated us about the current 3D printing process or alluded to a feature that would appear in the Beta release. For the sake of argument, let’s say that you didn’t read every single teaser blog over the course of five months. No problem. We’ve compiled those blogs here so you’ll have a metric ton of context before you dive in and download GrabCAD Print. Go on. Get after it.