EFL Filament Lab

Multi-Material Printing With Carbon Fiber Nylon...

You slice a PA-CF part, hit print, and six hours later you're fighting for your life with a pair of pliers. The supports fused to the part like they were...

Multi-Material Printing With Carbon Fiber Nylon...

You slice a PA-CF part, hit print, and six hours later you're fighting for your life with a pair of pliers. The supports fused to the part like they were...

How to Store Carbon Fiber Nylon: Dry Boxes, Des...

You dried your nylon spool for six hours, printed a perfect part, and shut down for the night. Tomorrow that same spool prints stringy, blobby, and weak. It's not your...

How to Store Carbon Fiber Nylon: Dry Boxes, Des...

You dried your nylon spool for six hours, printed a perfect part, and shut down for the night. Tomorrow that same spool prints stringy, blobby, and weak. It's not your...

Flow Rate Calibration for Carbon Fiber Nylon: F...

You slice a carbon fiber nylon part, hit print, and the walls come out puffy. The top layer has gaps you can see daylight through, and the first layer looks...

Flow Rate Calibration for Carbon Fiber Nylon: F...

You slice a carbon fiber nylon part, hit print, and the walls come out puffy. The top layer has gaps you can see daylight through, and the first layer looks...

First-Layer Adhesion: Z-Offset and Squish Setti...

Your first layer looks like a washboard — or the part peels off the plate halfway through the first outline. You've leveled the bed twice, and it's still wrong. Nine...

First-Layer Adhesion: Z-Offset and Squish Setti...

Your first layer looks like a washboard — or the part peels off the plate halfway through the first outline. You've leveled the bed twice, and it's still wrong. Nine...

Best Infill Patterns for Carbon Fiber Nylon: Wh...

You switched to carbon fiber nylon for strength. Then the part still flexed under load, or the print took fourteen hours and a third of a spool. Nine times out...

Best Infill Patterns for Carbon Fiber Nylon: Wh...

You switched to carbon fiber nylon for strength. Then the part still flexed under load, or the print took fourteen hours and a third of a spool. Nine times out...

Why Your Carbon Fiber Filament Keeps Clogging (...

The Print Dies at Hour TwoYou are three hours into a PA12-CF part. The first layers look perfect. Then the extruder starts clicking, the nozzle stops pushing plastic, and by...

Why Your Carbon Fiber Filament Keeps Clogging (...

The Print Dies at Hour TwoYou are three hours into a PA12-CF part. The first layers look perfect. Then the extruder starts clicking, the nozzle stops pushing plastic, and by...