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Materials & Resins

Guides to 3D printing materials — metal powders, resins, filaments, and technical ceramics: properties, real-world uses, and how to choose the right material for your part.

LPBF AlSi10Mg aluminium 3D-printed part — Additive Plus

AlSi10Mg vs Ti-6Al-4V vs Inconel 718: An LPBF Alloy Selector

September 29, 2026

How to choose between AlSi10Mg, Ti-6Al-4V and Inconel 718 for laser powder bed fusion — on temperature, mass budget and...
Powder flowability: recoater blade spreading metal powder into a smooth layer

Powder Flowability in Metal AM: What the Tests Really Tell You

September 24, 2026

Flow is easy to measure and hard to act on. The funnel tests, the Hausner ratio, the shape parameters behind...
Metal powder characterization: macro view of spherical gas-atomized particles with satellites

Metal Powder Characterization for Aerospace Qualification

September 22, 2026

Particle size, morphology, flow, density and chemistry — the five property families behind a qualified LPBF build, the standards that...
PETG

PETG Filament: Properties, Printing and When to Use It

August 27, 2026

PETG filament is the material most engineers reach for once PLA stops being enough. It prints almost as easily as...
Carbon fiber filament banner: spools of carbon-fiber filament and a printed matte-black bracket on a navy studio background with gold glow

Carbon Fiber Filament: Grades, Printing and When to Use It

August 13, 2026

Carbon fiber filament is a thermoplastic loaded with chopped carbon fibres — usually 10–20% by weight. Those fibres do one...
3DCeram M.A.T. FFF printer in a lab with silicon carbide filament spools — silicon carbide 3D printing

Silicon Carbide 3D Printing: How 3DCeram Prints SiC

August 12, 2026

How 3DCeram 3D-prints silicon carbide via FFF, the properties you get, and where dense SiC parts earn their place.
Real white zirconia 3D-printed ceramic openwork lattice part on dark studio background

Ceramic 3D Printing: Materials, Process & Applications

August 9, 2026

Ceramic 3D printing builds dense technical ceramics — alumina, zirconia, silicon carbide — layer by layer, in geometries no green-machining...
Nylon filament spool and 3D-printed nylon sample parts

How to Print Nylon Filament: Grades, Drying and Settings

August 3, 2026

How to print nylon filament: drying, temperatures, choosing PA / PA-CF / PA-GF, and where nylon earns its place.
Parts injection-molded and cast in ALTANA Cubic Ink Mold 400 VP printed tooling

The ALTANA Cubic Ink Resin Line: A Guide to the Industrial DLP/LCD Range

July 31, 2026

ALTANA’s Cubic Ink is a line of industrial UV-curable resins for DLP, LCD and mSLA 3D printing — built for...