What happens when you do real drop tests on 3d prints? Do they bend, do they break, do they shatter? In this video we'll find out by testing different materials and designs at several DROP heights.

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I see a lot of testing videos, some of them are useful to compare materials against each other, but they're not as useful when you want to apply them to real designs. If we want to protect something, should we use ABS? How about PETG? Or Maybe you're the PC type. I have an okay sense about each of the materials, but I couldn't tell you which material was best to protect expensive equipment, and which material could take continued abuse and not just break after one drop.

This video is dedicated to doing realistic dop testing to see if we can get some real answers to those questions so we have a better idea of how to design 3d printed parts, and that we also have a sense about which materials perform the best under which conditions.

In the previous video, we tested only PETG, it has a good reputation for being flexible, but it also has this other very strange property of becoming brittle and fracturing at a certain point. In this video we're going to see if we can figure out the right mix of flex and strength for that material so we can use it and have the confidence that it'll do the job.

Which material do you think will perform the best? Check out the video for all of the details, it was a lot of fun, and I learned quite a bit. Let's just say that it isn't all about the size, there is more to it than that.

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