Introducing MakerBot Print 4.3, MakerBot Connect, and MakerBot for Onshape

At MakerBot, we’re continually improving the customer experience with product updates to streamline your workflow and ensure you get the best prints—every time.

Today, we’re bringing even more value to the MakerBot experience with new feature enhancements for speeding up print times and optimizing materials—including our all-new real ABS material for METHOD X.

Update: Now you can manage both MakerBot and UltiMaker 3D printers in a single platform using UltiMaker Digital Facotry. Find out more here or get started today with Digital Factory!

Accelerate your printing with MakerBot Print 4.3

From Cloud-enabled management to animated print previews, MakerBot Print already streamlines any 3D printing workflow.

With our latest update, MakerBot Print 4.3 brings new feature enhancements for significantly increasing the speed of your print on METHOD 3D printers, which will help engineers get from CAD to part even faster.

MakerBot METHOD Series Features

METHOD X Support The newly-launched METHOD X with higher chamber temperature and support for true ABS material is available on the latest MakerBot Print 4.3.

New features include:

• Optimized parameters for MakerBot ABS material
• Balanced and solid print mode for MakerBot ABS
• Support for new extruders 1XA and 2XA
• Offline METHOD X archetype configuration lock to ensure there is no mismatch for extruders and materials

To learn more about METHOD X and the METHOD series, visit the MakerBot product page.

Taper-In Support (Beta)

A brand new PVA support structure that will dynamically taper-in and morph into a smaller base. This smart support structure will save the users time and money with each print! In our internal benchmarking, we have seen print time reduced by up to 50%.

Additionally, the time savings is further compounded during dissolution of PVA due to the reduced support material. Keep in mind that time and cost savings will be dependent on the geometry of the print and other settings used, but we expect users will see a significant improvement.

Taper-in Support is currently in beta but will appear as a default feature in the near future.

Dissolvable Support and None

Under Support Type there are two more options: Dissolvable Support and None. Dissolvable Support uses the traditional columnar support type that METHOD users are accustomed to. None will turn off supports and the print will not print with PVA or SR-30.

Printer-agnostic Features

Support for New CAD Files Formats An update of the HOOPS converter will allow us to support the latest updates to the major CAD files including:

• MakerBot (.makerbot) – All Versions
• STL (.stl) – All Versions
• Solidworks (.sldprt, .sldasm) – 97 to 2019
• CATIA (.CATDrawing, .CATPart, .CATProduct, .CATShape, CGR) – Up to V5-6 R2018 (R28)
• IGES (.iges, .igs) – 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
• Inventor (.ipt, .iam) – Up to 2019
• JT (.jt) – Up to v10.2
• Parasolid (.x_b, .x_t, .xmt, .xmt_txt) – Up to v31
• ProE/Creo (.asm, .neu, .prt, .xas, .xpr) – Pro/Engineer 19.0 to Creo 5.0
• Solid Edge (.par, .asm, .pwd, .psm) – V19-20, ST – ST10, 2019
• STEP AP203/214 (.step, .stp, .stpz) – AP 203 E1/E2, AP 214, AP 242
• Unigraphics/NX (.prt) – V11.0 to NX 12.0
• Wavefront Object (.obj) – All Versions

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

Scale to Max – When users rotate a part and select scale to max, the part may go out of the printer’s boundaries. End of life printers:

• MakerBot Replicator 2, Replicator 2X, and Replicator Mini (not Mini+) 3D printers will no longer be supported on future versions of MakerBot Print.
• MakerBot Smart Extruder (not Smart Extruder+) will no longer be supported on future versions of MakerBot Print. Click here to download the last version (4.3) of MakerBot Print supporting the above printers and extruder. This version will not prompt the user to update each time there is a new version of Print available.

Download MakerBot Print 4.3