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A global leader in large-format FFF 3D printing, BigRep strives to transform its user’s productivity and creativity with easy-to-use additive manufacturing solutions. With an aim to help companies accelerate innovation and rethink manufacturing, BigRep’s German-engineered 3D printers enable engineers, designers and manufacturers from start-ups to fortune 100 companies to go from prototyping to pro

duction faster, getting their products to market first. Through collaborations with strategic partners – including BASF, Bosch Rexroth, Etihad Airways, and Deutsche Bahn – BigRep continues to develop complete additive manufacturing solutions comprising of industrial 3D printers, software, and advanced materials. Founded in 2014, BigRep is headquartered in Berlin with offices and technical centers in Boston and Singapore.

27/08/2026

0 people in the room, and the print still lands on schedule. 👀

prints the structure for its exhibition stands in-house. Lenin's point about the machine: the print time estimate is accurate enough to plan a day around. Upload the job, come back, pull the part, load the next one, go home.

A time estimate is only worth having if you can trust it.

25/08/2026

190 fixtures for one prototype, and not one of them gets used twice.

Ford machined them from metal, up to three weeks each, then scrapped the set once the prototype was done. Now they print them. Hand jigs went from 8 to 10 weeks down to 2 to 3 days.



25/08/2026

Axios NYC has been printing its own patterns and its own tools since 2018. 🧰

They use 3D printing, and the Head of Design and Fabrication explains why:

“Allowing you to simply concentrate on the design to just improve the product, as opposed to just spending too much time fabricating for a concept.”

In wood, it costs a day of bench time and the material, so ideas get filtered before anyone tests them. Off a print bed, you look at it, say it needs to be this much bigger, and move on.

17/08/2026

2 materials, 1 exhibition floor that gets used again. ♻️

prints the decks for its own stands: PLA for the structure, TPU tiles on top so the floor has some give underfoot.

In the trade show industry the carpet is a single-use item. Laid, walked on, rolled up, binned. The flooring under it often goes the same way. These tiles go back out to the next show, and a damaged one is a reprint.

A room, a power supply, and two printers.That is Axios NYC’s plan for producing exhibition components closer to venues a...
10/08/2026

A room, a power supply, and two printers.

That is Axios NYC’s plan for producing exhibition components closer to venues around the world. Instead of shipping finished aluminum structures across oceans, founder David Yepez sees a model where the company sends files and prints near the venue. 🌍

The difference is scale. If one wall panel becomes 40 printed pieces, local production turns into another assembly job. The BigRep ONE’s 1 m³ build volume lets larger sections come off the print bed in one piece.

This works because Axios matched the process to the application: lightweight exhibition components with modest loads.

04/08/2026

4.5 kilos. That is a full four by eight foot exhibition wall, printed instead of extruded from aluminium.

The aluminium version weighs 20kg, and every one of those kilos gets paid for twice: once in freight to the show, once on the way home.

Axios NYC builds booths for their global clients out of New York, and prints the structures in-house on a BigRep ONE. Being able to say they have a solution to a problem and then just make it is the reason the machine is there.

Sound on for the extruder. 🔊

Plating doesn’t hide layer lines. It copies them.The metal skin on these is 25 to 250 µm, about two sheets of paper. It ...
27/07/2026

Plating doesn’t hide layer lines. It copies them.

The metal skin on these is 25 to 250 µm, about two sheets of paper. It follows whatever surface is underneath, so every ridge and every bit of roughness telegraphs straight through the copper.

Which is why the unglamorous step decides the result. FFF prints get sealed first, usually epoxy infiltration or v***r smoothing, then sanded and primed, and only then do they go in the bath. Skip it and the plating chemicals soak into the porous layers, outgas later, and lift the metal clean off.

Left: raw print. Middle: copper. Right: chrome over the top.

The shine is a side effect. What you’re actually getting is conductivity, EMI shielding, and a wear surface on a part that still weighs almost nothing.

Save this for your next finishing project. 🔖

31 hours left on this print. Nobody’s watching. 👀That’s the setup working as intended.Swipe for the five things that kil...
16/07/2026

31 hours left on this print. Nobody’s watching. 👀

That’s the setup working as intended.

Swipe for the five things that kill overnight prints (spool runout, clogs, first-layer lifts, calibration drift, zero visibility) and what actually fixes each one.

The honest part is automation doesn’t remove the operator. It moves their time from staring at layers to decisions and quality checks. The machine covers the night shift.

Full write-up on the blog, link in bio.

08/07/2026

What drew you into large-format 3D printing?

When you are printing at scale, choosing a layer height is a critical economic decision.A 0.1 mm change on a massive com...
03/07/2026

When you are printing at scale, choosing a layer height is a critical economic decision.

A 0.1 mm change on a massive component can mean the difference between a 12-hour print cycle and a 3-day machine commitment. For large-scale industrial projects, starting with a thick layer height (like 1 mm or higher) for internal structures or rough prototypes is often the most efficient strategy to keep machine time down. Save the fine resolutions exclusively for parts that require precise mating surfaces or high visual impact.

What is your threshold for print time versus surface quality on large prints? Let’s discuss below.

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