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3D Printing Zone
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3D Printing Zone is the podcast for people who make things with 3D printers: hobbyists, makers, designers, teachers and small businesses. Three episodes a week. Mondays round up the week's 3D printing news: new printers, materials, software, model sites and industry moves. Wednesdays and Fridays go deep on one topic: materials, slicing, design for printing, troubleshooting, multicolour, resin, and real projects, explained in plain English for a curious general audience. Australian-made, practical and honest about trade-offs. Brought to you by 3dprinting.zone, an Australian online 3D printing service. Upload an STL, 3MF, OBJ or STEP file and get a price in seconds, shipped Australia-wide. If you need custom 3D printing work done, visit www.3dprinting.zone.
Episodes
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The Bambu Lab Effect: How One Company Reset What a 3D Printer Should Be
In 2022 a two-year-old Shenzhen start-up founded by ex-DJI drone engineers put a printer on Kickstarter and raised about seven million US dollars in a month. Four years later Bambu Lab ships more entry-level 3D printers (under US$2,500) than anyone on earth, its model site MakerWorld claims ten...
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Silk, Matte, Glow and Speciality PLA: What Changes and What Doesn't
Walk into any filament shop, online or otherwise, and plain PLA is surrounded by cousins: silk, matte, glow-in-the-dark, wood, marble, carbon fibre, sparkle, rainbow, colour-changing, and the mysterious "PLA Plus". They are all PLA underneath, yet a silk vase and a matte figurine print, feel and...
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This Week in 3D Printing: California's Gun-Blocking Printer Law, Bambu's Matte PETG, Prusa Goes to 400 °C
The week of 26 September to 4 October 2026 in 3D printing, for makers and small businesses. California signed a law that will one day require printers to recognise and refuse gun files, Bambu Lab launched a matte PETG at the same price as its glossy one, Prusa put a 400-degree hotend on the Core...
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Printing Replacement Parts: Fix the Thing Instead of Replacing It
A dishwasher basket wheel snaps, a fridge shelf clip crumbles, the bracket on a roller blind gives way, and suddenly a perfectly good appliance is heading for the kerb over a few grams of plastic. This episode is about the most useful thing a 3D printer does in an ordinary home: making the small...
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MakerWorld, Printables and Thingiverse: Who Gets Paid and What You Can Print
Millions of free 3D models are a click away, but where do they come from, who pays the people who design them, and what are you actually allowed to do with a file once you have downloaded it? This episode walks through the big model sites, from Thingiverse's 2008 origins and 2026 rescue to...
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Buy a Printer or Use a Service: The Honest Cost Comparison
A capable 3D printer now costs less than a mid-range phone, so why would anyone pay a print service? And if services exist, why would anyone buy a printer? This episode runs the numbers properly: what an entry and mid-range machine really costs in Australia in 2026, the hidden costs nobody puts…
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Resin Printing Explained: Liquid, Light and the Finest Detail You Can Buy
Resin printers build objects upside down, out of a puddle of liquid, hardened one hair-thin slice at a time by violet light. The result is detail that filament printers simply cannot match: raised text a millimetre tall, tabletop miniatures with individual fingernails, jewellery masters ready for...
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Multicolour 3D Printing: How It Works and Why the Waste Bin Fills Up
Multicolour 3D printing looks like magic: one machine, one nozzle, and a figurine comes off the plate already painted. This episode opens the lid on how that actually happens, from the filament changers that swap spools hundreds of times in a single print, to tool changers that avoid the swap...
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3D Printing File Formats: Why 3MF Is Taking Over from STL
STL, OBJ, 3MF or STEP? The file you upload decides whether your print arrives the right size, the right colour and without a "non-manifold" error. This episode walks through what a mesh actually is, why a format designed in 1987 still dominates, and why the newer 3MF standard has quietly become…
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Layer Height Explained: What Finer Layers Really Cost You in Time
Two identical tugboats, same file, same printer, same plastic. One took an hour and a half to print, the other nearly three hours, and the only setting that changed was layer height. This episode puts real numbers on the most consequential trade-off in everyday 3D printing: how thick each slice…
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Infill Explained: What the Percentage Really Buys You in Strength, Weight and Cost
Every 3D print is mostly air on the inside, and one number in the slicer decides how much. In this episode we pull apart the infill percentage: what it is, why printed parts are not solid, and what dragging that slider from 15 to 50 to 100 per cent actually does to strength, weight, print time…
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Choosing a 3D Printing Material: PLA, PETG, ABS, ASA, TPU and Nylon Without Regret
A phone holder that slumps on a Sydney dashboard, a garden fitting that goes chalky in one summer, a "flexible" case that snaps: almost every disappointing 3D print is a material chosen for the wrong job. This episode walks through the six filaments you will actually meet, PLA, PETG, ABS, ASA…
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How FDM Printing Works: From Spool to Part, One Layer at a Time
Most desktop 3D printers are, at heart, a very precise hot glue gun on a robot arm. In this episode we follow a spool of plastic all the way to a finished part: what fused filament printing actually is, the handful of components that every machine shares, how a 3D model becomes thousands of lines...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
3D Printing Zone is the podcast for people who make things with 3D printers: hobbyists, makers, designers, teachers and small businesses. Three episodes a week. Mondays round up the week's 3D printing news: new printers, materials, software, model sites and industry moves. Wednesdays and Fridays go deep on one topic: materials, slicing, design for printing, troubleshooting, multicolour, resin, and real projects, explained in plain English for a curious general audience. Australian-made, practical and honest about trade-offs.
Brought to you by 3dprinting.zone, an Australian online 3D printing service. Upload an STL, 3MF, OBJ or STEP file and get a price in seconds, shipped Australia-wide. If you need custom 3D printing work done, visit www.3dprinting.zone.
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