Featured Resources

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  Getting Started: 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… Read More

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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… Read More

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  3D Printing Industry Secrets

  GrabCAD is very excited to announce that we’ve reached 6 million members in the GrabCAD Community! As a way of saying “Thank You”, we interviewed a few of our engineers at GrabCAD and Stratasys and collected their best advice for 3D printing. Our engineers share their tricks on support removal, color swatching, and even their favorite 3D print projects. But that’s not all. This eBook also shares career advice for students just entering the real world. Advice on how to work in teams, how to listen to customer feedback and more! Click here to download

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  Exploring 3D Printing Solutions

  Are you part of an engineering team striving to bring products to market faster? Or are you a product designer looking for greater innovation or customization? Maybe you’re an educator hoping to boost engagement in the classroom through exciting new projects? No matter what sparked your interest in professional 3D printing, this guide can be your starting point to understanding this ever-evolving technology. We’ve set out to save you hours of research and boiled it down to a single comprehensive eBook. This ebook will help you find the right questions to ask while providing information about each technology to lead you down the correct path. Click here to download

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  3D Printing VS. CNC Machining

  To all of you who are thinking about whether 3D printing makes sense for you, there is a lot to take into consideration when designing and developing your product. When designs are still fluid and specifications are in flux, two common choices arise: 3D printing and CNC machining. Both can meet your needs, but which one do you choose? We’re here to help. We’ve set out to save you hours of research and boiled it down to a single comprehensive eBook. This ebook will look at both technologies strengths and identify when is the right time to use each process. Click here to download

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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.