{"id":575,"date":"2013-02-05T11:04:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T19:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wri3d.com\/main\/?p=575"},"modified":"2014-03-21T15:10:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T22:10:04","slug":"what-is-filament-for-a-3d-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"What is filament for a 3D printer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are new to 3D printing, here&#8217;s a quick description of printer filament.\u00a0 3D printers use plastic filament (think weed eater string) to print in 3D very much like your 2D paper printer.\u00a0 If you still can&#8217;t visualize what the 3D printer filament looks like, here&#8217;s a picture.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Premium-ABS-Filament-Blue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61\" alt=\"Blue\" src=\"https:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Premium-ABS-Filament-Blue.jpg\" width=\"446\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pretty much the 3D printer filament is like plastic &#8220;wire&#8221; that gets fed into the printer and melted and used to build 3D models.\u00a0 Most Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) printers print with ABS plastic (think Lego), as well as PLA (Polylactic acid), a biodegradable polymer made from organic material.\u00a0 In general, ABS filament is opaque and more malleable than PLA, while PLA is translucent and shrinks less than ABS.\u00a0 As you get more familiar with 3D printing, you will begin to get your own style and preferences for printing filament.\u00a0 In the meantime if you&#8217;re new to the scene, we suggest picking a few ABS colors you like and perhaps a roll or two of the PLA or other specialty filament.\u00a0 Personally, I like to start with black ABS and white ABS.\u00a0 I also like to use clear PLA.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s up to your taste, maybe you just want to print everything in neon green like my daughter!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are new to 3D printing, here&#8217;s a quick description of printer filament.\u00a0 3D printers use plastic filament (think weed eater string) to print in 3D very much like your 2D paper printer.\u00a0 If you still can&#8217;t visualize what &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/?p=575\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is filament for a 3D printer?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9PzL0-9h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}