Airwolf 3D Co-Founder Erick Wolf often describes his company as “a hot rod shop that builds 3D printers.” If you’ve ever visited Airwolf 3D, you know this is an accurate description. Most days, a project car sits in the middle of our warehouse, flanked by the shipping and RMA departments and mere feet away from […]
Airwolf 3D Intern Prescott Campbell has been busy helping the rest of the Wolfpack design and print custom parts for the company’s project car, the Dodge SRT Hellcat Challenger. Check out how he accomplished his latest project, re-designed speaker covers customized with the “AW3D” logo. The stock speaker cover in the SRT Hellcat Challenger works […]
Here at Airwolf 3D we love using a large 3D printer. No more having to print a large-size object in several parts and assemble them. Not with the AXIOM 20. This ultra-tall, big 3D printer makes it so easy to print flawlessly in over 40 different materials, including high-temperature, industrial-grade polycarbonate and polypropylene. It was […]
Airwolf 3D Intern Prescott Campbell is back with a new project: custom 3D-printed coat hooks for the Hellcat, one of Airwolf 3D’s favorite project cars. In the SRT Hellcat Challenger, the two hooks for hanging clothes above the rear windows are made of black Polycarbonate-ABS. Because I’ve been tasked with creating custom parts for the […]
If you follow us on social media (or on the 405 freeway in Southern California), you’ve surely seen our newest and most exciting project car: The Airwolf 3D Hellcat. At any given time at the Airwolf 3D building, you’re likely to hear the thundering rumble of the modern muscle car’s supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 before the […]
What’s old is new! The classic Airwolf 3D HD series printers are back and better than ever! If you’re on a budget, don’t go for a cheap 3D printer, chose one of our most successful series of 3D printers now available with the same Direct Drive technology that catapulted the AXIOM series to award-winning success. […]
As new, lower cost desktop 3D printers have made their way into the market over the last few years, more and more of them claim to print polycarbonate successfully. While the technology certainly has improved, the fact still remains: The Airwolf 3D AXIOM series is the only desktop 3D printer on the market under $50,000 […]
Signal Tide Is A Sound and Extraterrestrial Radio Installation That is Out of This World! Berlin-based artists Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty are interested in processes, sounds, and movements that come close to imperceptibility, and the ways in which this material can be transformed through layering, rhythm, pattern, and repetition. In this project, they decided […]
Ready to take your 3D printing to the next level? Get superior performance, reliability, and service when you trade in an old 3D printer* for a new Airwolf 3D AXIOM. You get what you pay for Did you buy a low-cost 3D printer, only to find that it doesn’t have the ability to do everything […]
Airwolf 3D is excited to release its newest product: ASA filament for 3D printing. ASA 3D printer filament is often compared to ABS because its chemical properties are very similar. Both materials are incredibly strong, long-lasting, and can be finished with an ultra glossy shine using an acetone vapor treatment. What is ASA 3D printer […]
Looking for 3D printers in Southern California? The Airwolf 3D Wolfpack is incredibly excited to find a new home in our very own building located at 11208 Young River Avenue in beautiful Fountain Valley, CA. Since we left Erick and Eva’s garage back in 2012, we’ve experienced explosive growth and found ourselves needing to move […]
If you’re familiar with 3D printing, you know that it’s easy to generate plastic waste — especially if you’re a prolific 3Der. When you combine failed prints, re-designs, used support material, and even printed objects you simply no longer need or want, it’s not uncommon to start building up a collection of plastic waste that […]
Want to create your own custom 3D-printed logo spinner? Airwolf 3D Summer Intern Kevin Coulson, a second year engineering major at UC-Berkeley, walks you through the process of designing and 3D-printing your own customized fidget spinner toy. At this point, everybody knows what a fidget spinner is and how they’re typically designed — one bearing […]
Airwolf 3D Summer Intern Prescott Campbell is a junior at Corona Del Mar High School in Newport Beach, CA. With his passion for cars and experience using Airwolf 3D printers on his school’s robotics team, Prescott joined the Wolfpack to help work on custom 3D-printed parts for the Dodge SRT Hellcat Challenger. His first project? […]
The newest member of the Airwolf 3D CARBONITE series has arrived in the form of carbon fiber reinforced ABS! An engineering grade filament that is excellent for a wide variety of professional applications, ABS CARBONITE prints much like regular ABS, but offers some additional benefits. Like our carbon fiber reinforced Nylon and carbon fiber PETG, […]
Airwolf 3D Art Director Ruben Zeledon may be a talented graphic designer and videographer by day, but he’s also a rockstar by night. Lead vocalist and guitarist for Demiurge Prototype, Ruben’s guitar of choice is an unusual 7-string guitar that was custom-built for him by ES Guitars. When he couldn’t find a replacement for a […]
Meet the newest material to join our lineup of engineering-grade 3D printing filaments: PETG CARBONITE. Like the other carbon composites in our CARBONITE series, PETG CARBONITE boasts superior strength, a low tendency to shrink or warp, high printability and a beautifully even-textured surface finish. There are a lot of fans of 3D printing with PETG […]
Have you ever tried doing what you thought would be a quick, easy, small print, but ended up with a failed part? It’s not uncommon for 3D printer users to see success printing larger models, only to be surprised by how difficult it can be to print a small part. The fact of the matter […]
What is the strongest 3D printer filament? Airwolf 3D CEO and Co-Founder Erick Wolf gives a rundown on the results of a 3D printer filament strength test featuring PLA, ABS, Nylon, and Polycarbonate. This blog post was adapted from the video, What is the Strongest 3D Printer Filament? and is part of the series, Hooked […]
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Hooked on 3D Printing is a new series from Airwolf 3D where we will test the strength of popular 3D printing filaments. To get this project done, we enlisted the help of one of our newest Wolfpack members, Kevin Coulson. Our intern for the summer, Kevin is a second year student at the University of […]
Kick off the July 4th weekend with new 3D printing grab bags! Have you been wanting to try a new 3D printing filament? Or curious about our best-selling Wolfbite formulas like Nano, the highly popular 3D printing adhesive for PLA? This is your chance to save some money and start experimenting with all kinds of […]
As the leader in multi-material desktop 3D printing, the Airwolf 3D Wolfpack decided it was high time to put some of our favorite materials to the test — a 3D printing filament strength test. How Did We Test 3D Printing Filament Strength? We spend a lot of time touting the impeccable quality of the Airwolf […]
There’s a new force in education — and it’s ready to take the country by storm! Meet “S.T.E.A.M Mobile,” a learning experience on wheels that even sports its own classroom 3D printer. What is S.T.E.A.M Mobile? A project launched by the National College Resources Foundation (NCRF), S.T.E.A.M Mobile is on a mission to “reach and […]
Since its beginning in 2013, the ocMaker Challenge inspires our schools and community with deeply innovative student inventions that are designed to “solve a problem, need or want.” And this year’s ocMaker Challenge certainly did not disappoint. With over 200 entries, this year was the event’s largest ever and the impressive levels of sophistication and […]
Get in on this 3D printer sale now and take advantage of one of our best deals of the year! Our AXIOMs’ hot ends aren’t the only things reaching high temperatures out there. With hot summer days comes the super hot Summer 6-Pack Sale from Airwolf 3D! For a limited time, if you buy an […]
Want a great deal on a classic 3D printer? Get an Airwolf 3D XL printer while you still can! Only the second model of 3D printer to be released by Airwolf 3D, the XL hit the market in 2013 with the largest ABS build platform in its class. Four years later and we STILL manufacture […]
Like many parents of school-age children in California, Troy Peterson’s daughter came home needing help with her 4th Grade project: Build a model of a California Mission. Troy’s daughter was assigned Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, an elaborate historic landmark in San Gabriel, California. Founded by Junipero Serra in 1771, the mission is known for its […]
Airwolf 3D Co-Founder/CTO Erick Wolf kicks off Project Mustang 5.0 by repairing a leaky heater core with a custom-made 3D-printed polycarbonate part. Project Mustang 5.0 is the most recent addition to Airwolf 3D’s stable of cool American cars. Being the car nuts that we are, the Mustang is the perfect addition as it is a […]
Can you 3D print in polypropylene? Yes, you can now with Airwolf 3D’s polypropylene filament and Ultra, a brand new Wolfbite solution formulated specially for use with polypropylene applications. Did you know that only three different plastics make up over 66 percent of the TOTAL high performance plastics used in cars? Chief among these plastics, […]
