3D Printer Success: Best Practice Design Guides & Video

Download our latest Design Guides to help you best use your 3D printer for creating composite and metal parts for tooling, fixtures, and replacements. You can even print parts with complex geometries, such as shadows and holes. High performance, desktop industrial 3D printers like the Markforged Metal X work with a variety of materials, including composites (carbon fiber, fiberglass, Kevlar), stainless steels, tool steels (A2, D2, H13), superalloys (Inconel), and non-ferrous metals (copper, titanium).

• Design Guide for 3D Printing with Composites discusses material needs and behaviors, part design, continuous fiber fabrication, assessing properties of composite parts, fiber reinforcement, loading conditions, dimensions, surface area, overhangs, printer bandwidth, validating geometries, and more.

• Design Guide for 3D Printing with Metals discusses material selection, optimizing for printing, modifying overhangs to optimize supports, washing parts, reducing stress concentrations for sintering, machining and polishing sintered parts, and more.