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Introducing MatterControl
MatterHackers | Published May 18, 2013

A free app that lets you organize and manage your 3-D prints.

At MatterHackers we do a quite a bit of 3D printing, usually a variety of multi-part projects and on different desktop-models - so to maintain our sanity we've developed a little tool we call MatterControl. MatterControl allows us to streamline the operation of a reprap-style 3D printer. We just load the files (yes, 'files' plural) to be printed and hit 'print' until we are done. (More)

Have Printer – Will Travel
Roy Smith - Guest Contributor | Published May 15, 2013

The Smithbot gets hands-on, exploring the latest 3D printing controversy.

These days, if you own a 3D printer, you’ve probably been asked, “Have you printed a gun yet?”  If you’re at all like me, you’ve probably answered, “Are you out of your mind?? Of course I have!” (More)

Tips On Printing With PLA
Lars Brubaker | Published Apr 9, 2013

We get a lot of questions regarding printing with PLA, and have put together a collection of the best tips and tricks we have learned over the years. We hope this guide can get you the most out of printing in PLA.

We recently added a new support section to MatterHackers.com and wanted to highlight our article about printing in PLA.

Please have a look at our article, HOW TO SUCCEED WHEN PRINTING IN PLA. (More)