E3D Making F'Uge Changes in 2026 - Education in Three Dimensions at FormNext 2025

Order E3D hotends and nozzles here: - https://e3d-online.com/ These guys were so much fun, this was in the final few hours of the last day of the show amnd we were all just broken. I always have such a laugh with the guys, absolutely excellent team with some wonderful products. This is a Formnext 2025 booth chat with E3D about something that sounds stupidly simple - a “bigger gap” - but is actually right at the centre of why modern printers keep claiming ridiculous print speeds that don’t always translate into real results. Everyone loves to talk about 500 mm/s, 600 mm/s, “ultra high speed”, and other numbers that look great on a product page, but if you’ve ever wondered what actually limits fast printing in the real world, this is one of the core answers. E3D are basically the people who have been making hotends and nozzle tech since the early “3D printers made of MDF and hope” era, and they’re still one of the few companies where the parts you buy often outlive the printer they were installed on. In this video I’m talking to Rory from E3D about their new high-flow approach called FUGE - and yes, it’s pronounced exactly how you think it’s pronounced. The goal here isn’t just “make a nozzle bigger”, it’s changing how heat gets into the filament fast enough to keep up with modern motion systems without turning your prints into molten regret. If you’re researching things like high flow nozzle, high flow hotend, volumetric flow rate, max flow, melt zone, or why your printer can move fast but can’t actually extrude fast enough to match it, this conversation breaks down what E3D is trying to solve and why. A lot of people are also searching for the difference between “speed” and “throughput” - because going faster is meaningless if the filament isn’t melting efficiently, if the extruder can’t push it with enough force, if part cooling can’t keep up, or if the motion system is just flexing around like a shopping trolley wheel. This is the part of the speed war that gets ignored when brands only talk about acceleration numbers. We also get into the wider “arms race” behind modern printers - how companies are trying to make sure they aren’t the bottleneck in the chain. Some are focusing on motion systems, some on lightweight toolheads, some on crazy part cooling setups like CPAP-style solutions, and E3D’s role in that ecosystem is making sure the hotend and nozzle aren’t the thing that forces you to slow down the moment you try to print anything substantial. If you’ve ever hit a point where faster profiles just lead to under-extrusion, weak layers, rough surfaces, or inconsistent results, this is the kind of engineering problem happening underneath that frustration. There’s also a bit of E3D backstory in here - why the company exists, what E3D actually stands for, and how their roots in education and early RepRap-era hardware shaped the hotends that became the default upgrade path for years. If you’ve used V6, Volcano, Obsidian, Revo, or any of the common E3D ecosystem parts, this will make sense as the next step in the same direction. The best part is that this isn’t a sales pitch for something you can buy today. FUGE isn’t fully out in the wild yet, and that’s made explicit. This is more of a “watch this space” chat about a technology E3D expects to roll into a lot of major printers across 2026 - which makes it relevant even if you don’t own an E3D setup right now. If you care about where high-speed printing is going next, and why the next generation of printers is going to need more than marketing numbers to actually deliver, this one’s worth watching. If this video helps you understand high-speed printing, high-flow extrusion, or why your “fast printer” sometimes still prints like it’s wading through syrup, please consider using the affiliate links below when you buy machines, filament, or accessories, since that directly supports the channel. ⭐️ Usual Link Block