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HP MJF Foundry Tooling

3D Printed Foundry Pattern Tooling Forerunner 3D Printing was approached by Great Lakes Casting about the possibility of using our HP MJF 3D printing process to produce HP MJF foundry tooling. Traditionally low volume or prototype tooling is made of Teak but GLC was looking for a method of producing this tooling faster and more […]

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Using Cerakote On 3D Printed Parts

Cerakote is a Polymer-Ceramic Composite coating and Cerakote on 3D printed parts is extremely durable due to this ceramic content. The unique formulation used for Cerakote ceramic coating enhances a number of physical performance properties including abrasion/wear resistance, corrosion resistance, chemical resistance, impact strength, and hardness. Each of these properties is rigorously tested to guarantee […]

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HP MJF 3D Printed Pressure Vessel

Testing Summary MJF printed PA12 parts have proven to be watertight without any additional post-process (unlike SLS parts that must be chemically sealed after printing). Therefore, MJF printed parts can be used as manifolds or pipelines that work with fluids, even under pressure. The purpose of this article is to document the experiments used for […]

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Holland 3D Printing Service

We are your source for Holland 3D Printing Services Conveniently located 40 min North of downtown Holland just off of I-96 in Coopersville. Forerunner 3D printing is your West Michigan source for making your prototype or low volume manufacturing parts a reality using 3D Printing. Let us help you figure out the best process to […]

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Heat-Set Inserts For MJF 3D Printed Parts

There are many different ways of adding threads to 3D printed parts, this guide specifically covers using Heat-Set Inserts for MJF parts. At Forerunner 3D Printing we run into assembly applications almost daily that require some type of thread when either designing our own parts or consulting on our customers designs. Of all the options […]

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3D Printing For Grand Rapids

We are your source for 3D Printing in Michigan Conveniently located 30 min west of downtown Grand Rapids just off of I-96 in Coopersville. Forerunner 3D printing is your West Michigan source for making your prototype or low volume manufacturing parts a reality using 3D Printing. Let us help you figure out the best process […]

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Forerunner 3DP / HP / Lubrizol Webinar Assets

You will find both the webinar recording (above) as well as the PowerPoint slide deck recapping the webinar “8 Robotic & Automation Applications Using Flexible 3D Printed Parts“ Here are a collection of links to other pages on the F3DP website that are relative to the topics covered during this webinar: Have questions? Our sales […]

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FDM Part Design Guide

These guidelines are to be used as a starting point in understanding the basic aspects of part design and preparation for FDM components. When designing a part to be built using FDM technology, build process must be considered. FDM is accomplished by extruding thin layers of molten thermoplastic layer by layer until a part is […]

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Frequently Asked Questions

How to contact us: You want to 3D Print something: What materials can you print in? What is your lead time? What kind of 3D CAD file do you need? I have a part but no 3D CAD model, can you print a copy? What color options do you have? What is the tolerance on […]

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E-Z Lok Inserts For MJF TPU 3D Printed Parts

There are many different ways of adding threads to 3D printed parts, this guide specifically covers using E-Z Lok Inserts for MJF TPU Rubber parts. At Forerunner 3D Printing we run into assembly applications almost daily that require some type of thread when either designing our own parts or consulting on our customers designs. This […]

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