3D Printing Articles

Here are our top tips and tricks for 3D printing with PVA filament  PVA filaments allow you to print complex shapes and geometries that would otherwise be impossible thanks to dual extrusion and the way it dissolves in water. This leaves you with a very smooth and clean print compared to printing supports with single extrusion....

At our Print Your Mind online store, we make sure to serve all your 3D printing needs with a wide variety of state-of-the-art filaments. 3D Printing provides small companies, educators and home users their own means of manufacturing and greatly opens up their creative capacities. With that comes the need to properly store 3D printing materials.  ...

 Our list of the top 4 ways 3D printing is changing education   It is becoming more and more common to find a 3D printer in classrooms right here in Calgary, and also all across Canada. Teachers, educators, and professors can see the value in allowing their students to develop an idea into something they can actually...

Contributed by: Hui Jenny Chen, M.D. (Founder and CEO of 3DHeals) You can win a free ticket to the upcoming 3DHeals2017 Global Conference by entering at the bottom of this article. Why 3D Printing (and Bioprinting) will help healthcare with a quantum leap? Background: 3D printing (also known as additive manufacture) is technically “invented” in the 1980s[1]. It...

Contributed by Alex Burden: The Victoria Hand Project (VHP) is a not-for-profit company working to deploy 3d printed prosthetic hands to individuals in developing countries. By 3D printing the hand the costs are greatly reduced and it is now affordable to amputees in poorer countries. The project began as a Master’s project by the executive director of...

From Pond to Printer.....3D Printing with Algae and Other Sustainable Materials. Here at Print Your Mind 3D, we are always interested in break through innovations in the 3D printing world around making the industry more sustainable. This is a large focus of our Enviromakers initiative and why we are funding research to aid with recycling waste material....