What to give and what to print for the New Year

The New Year is not only tangerines and champagne, it is a wonderful occasion for gifts, both to yourself and those around you. We have prepared for you a brief guide to gifts from the field of additive technologies. New and already known popular products from different price categories.

Personal 3D printers

A 3D printer, if you do not consider commercial and industrial use, is a tool for materializing ideas in art or in everyday life. Toys, souvenirs, mechanisms, large-scale and radio-controlled models, robots, jewelry and useful trivia are tasks for a personal 3D printer.
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Hercules

• printing area: 180 x 180 x 180 mm;
• nozzle diameter: 0.4 mm;
• interfaces: USB, SD;
• price: 70,000 rubles ;
• to whom to give: to the lover of 3D printing, who needs a technique higher than the existing one.

In 2017, the "Hercules" was finalized, the changes affected the display and the print head. All the same reliable compact machine. Closed housing rail guides. And an attractive price.

Wanhao Duplicator 7 v 1.4

• printing technology: photopolymer (LCD);
• printing area: 120 x 68 x 200 mm;
• PC connection: USB + HDMI;
• price: 31900 rub. ;
• to whom to give: to an amateur who needs to print small products with high precision - figures, decorations and the like.

“Wanhao” for this year has released several versions of the budget photopolymer printer, working on LCD-technology. In the current modification improved cooling, improved electronics. A gift to anyone who wants to print with high detail.

Wanhao Duplicator i3 Mini

• printing area: 120 x 135 x 100 mm;
• nozzle diameter: 0.4 mm;
• interfaces: USB, microSD;
• price: 16500 rub. ;
• To whom to give: to those who want to get acquainted with 3D printing, not immersed in technical subtleties.

An entry-level printer with a small print area and no heated table. Unlike popular designers, it comes in assembled form. Suitable for exploring 3D printing.

3D scanner

The bulk of 3D-scanners refers to high-precision professional equipment with a corresponding cost. There are also simpler devices that can be used in everyday life for scanning relatively large objects.

3D Systems Sense Next Gen

• scanning area: up to 200 x 200 x 200 cm;
• accuracy: 900 microns;
• scanning in color: possible;
• price: 36290 rub. ;
• to whom to give: in need of a means of digitizing physical objects, people and furniture, for example.

Hand scanner Sense is designed to scan people and other objects of similar dimensions. The device itself is compact, the software is not difficult to master.

3D pens

Inexpensive compared to a 3D printer, a gift. A 3D pen is not just a toy; with some perseverance and dexterity, it allows you to create beautiful things. Utilitarian use of it, too, there will be, paired with a 3D-printer - to correct printing flaws, fill the seams when connecting elements of large models.

Funtastique neo

• nozzle diameter: 0.6 mm;
• working temperature: 130-230 degrees;
• Power: 5V 2A;
• price: 4900 rub. ;
• to whom to give: to a creative person who appreciates neat elegant tools.

A 3D pen that looks like an ordinary fountain pen or liner. Compact case without large sags and protruding parts, a miniature OLED-display showing the current mode of operation.

Myriwell RP100A

• nozzle diameter: 0.7 mm;
• working temperature: 60-230 degrees;
• Power supply: 12V 3A;
• price: 2662 rub. ;
• to whom to give: a child for creativity, a 3D printer for utilitarian use.

Not the most modern, but already proven model from the budget segment. Light, well in the hand. There is no indication of the mode, but the temperature can be set using the adjustment screw.

Consumables

The most affordable gift for a 3D print lover is a reel of interesting plastic for decorative or engineering parts, depending on the printer’s priorities.

Filamentarno! Ceramo

• printing temperature: 250-260 degrees;
• table temperature: 100-110 degrees;
• net weight: 750 g;
• price: 2890 rubles. ;
• to whom to give: to the person who prints decorative objects - sculptures, dishes, dolls.

Solid dense filament, imitates ceramics. Well subjected to mechanical post-processing, from coarse grinding to polishing. Heat resistant - "holds" up to 102 degrees.

Rec Friction

• printing temperature: 235-245 degrees;
• table temperature: from 35 degrees;
• net weight: 500 g;
• price: 2990 rub. ;
• to whom to give: print mechanical parts - gears, pulleys, levers, traction.

Filament based on polyamide, has anti-friction properties, high wear resistance and resistance to temperatures over 100 degrees. In print, simpler than classic nylon.

BestFilament BFlex

• printing temperature: 220-250 degrees;
• table temperature: 80-90 degrees;
• net weight: 500 g;
• price: 1490 rubles. ;
• who to give: useful for both decorative and engineering purposes.

Flexible material suitable for printing gaskets, dampers, wheels and similar units. Does not apply to very soft flexs, stiffness is enough to work with Bowden extruders.

REC PLA

• printing temperature: 190-230 degrees;
• table temperature: up to 60 degrees;
• net weight: 750 g;
• price: 1490 rubles. ;
• To whom to give: to the owner of any 3D printer using FDM technology with a bar of 1.75 mm.

The easiest to print material. Yellow PLA is useful when printing souvenir dogs, white - snowflakes, green is indispensable for Christmas trees.

BestFilament ABS

• printing temperature: 220-270 degrees;
• table temperature: 90-110 degrees;
• net weight: 1000 g;
• price: 1390 rub. ;
• who should give it to: a 3D printer who can work with ABS and has a printer with a heated table.

ABS has noticeable shrinkage, requires heating of the printing platform. For high-quality printing of large objects need a closed camera. Of the advantages - ABS is inexpensive and well subjected to mechanical and chemical processing.

What to print for the New Year

If you already have or will soon have a 3D printer, it is logical for the New Year to print something related to this holiday.

The symbol of the year according to the eastern calendar is a dog on a pedestal. Printed without support, complex elements are missing. May be of any color, provided it is yellow. You can download it on Thingiverse .


If only white plastic is available, it doesn't matter. You can make snowmen, snow maidens and snowflakes from all stocks. If you are a fan of "Star Wars" - for you a collection with the appropriate color. Pay attention to the links in the description - there are several sets. Here




Green plastic - trees. Geometric and customizable - there is . Similar to the crystal - too . If you have not yet printed a tree with eyelets - we recall, here it is .

Difficult choice

If you intend to make a gift associated with 3D printing, but cannot decide on the choice of goods - give the donee the freedom of maneuver, present a Top 3D Shop gift certificate with a nominal value of 3,000 to 200,000 rubles. You can buy it here .


With the upcoming New Year, Top 3D Shop congratulates all present and future 3D printers and sympathizers, just creative people and those for whom additive technologies are not a hobby, but a profession.

We wish you success in your work and creativity in the coming year! And we will help by offering you equipment and consumables for solving various tasks and implementing the most interesting ideas.

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