Month: July 2015

Quick & dirty filament guide improvements

Jens Strümper  3D Printing, Articles, Uncategorized  , ,  Leave a comment

The other day I ordered a new 1kg spool of PLA for my Ultimaker 2 but didn’t  think of the spool being bigger in comparison to a standard 0,75 kg spool. I had printed / assembled some bearing supported spool holder + filament guide  to fix the prominent Ultimaker 2 filament guiding issues  just to realize […]

Creating holes in rectangular objects in Sketchup

Jens Strümper  3D Printing, Tutorials    Leave a comment

I had a hard time finding a simple way creating holes in rectangular objects or a cylinder and eventually attach a flange to it. The solution is quite simple. It will work with cylinders as too. Unfortunately  you can’t see the tools that I’ve selected in the tutorial below as Mac OS changes the curser while using the screenshot feature […]