About TRIDYsign
An independent publication about 3D printing, written from Mexico, with specifications that cite their source and prices that carry the date they were verified.
Publication founded in 2026
What TRIDYsign is
TRIDYsign is an editorial publication about 3D printing: printers, materials, software, printable files, troubleshooting, and the calculators you need to decide well. Everything is published in Mexican Spanish and in English, and every page declares where its claims come from.
We do not sell printers or materials, we are not a reseller, and we are not affiliated with any manufacturer. We are a publication, not a shop with a blog.
Who it is for
We write with four specific people in mind:
- Somebody about to buy their first printer who cannot tell whether the cheap machine will serve them or ruin their weekend.
- Somebody already printing who hits a defect they cannot name: elephant foot, warping corners, a first layer that will not stick.
- Somebody setting up a workshop or a small business who needs real cost-per-part numbers, not brochure promises.
- Somebody teaching 3D printing in Mexico who needs Spanish material that is not a machine translation of a US channel.
Why it exists
Because there is no independent 3D printing publication in Mexican Spanish with explicit editorial standards. What exists is plentiful, but it splits three ways: shop catalogues dressed up as guides, machine translations of English-language outlets that ignore Mexican pricing, shipping and warranty, and videos where the judgement is real but never written down and impossible to check.
The practical result is that somebody in Culiacán, Puebla or Mérida makes a several-thousand-peso decision using information with no date, no source and sometimes no author. That is what this site tries to fix: not by being more enthusiastic, but by being checkable.
The consequence is that we are slower and publish less. A figure we cannot stand behind does not get published, and a gap is shown as a gap.
How we work
Three rules govern everything on the site, each developed on its own page:
- Every figure declares its evidence level: verified, manufacturer figure, measured by us, or editorial analysis. See the editorial methodology.
- Every page states whether we tested the machine hands-on or the analysis rests on documentation. See the review and testing policy.
- Every substantive correction is logged with its date in the article itself. See corrections.
Who writes here
Article bylines link to this section. If a name is not listed here, it has not written on this site.
Redacción TRIDYsign
Collective byline of the editorial desk
Redacción TRIDYsign is the collective byline of the editorial desk. It is used when a piece is written, reviewed or updated by more than one person in-house, and when the content is a compilation of verified data — material data sheets, temperature tables, the glossary, prices in Mexican pesos — rather than one person's analysis. Every published figure carries its evidence level and its source: 'verified', 'stated by the manufacturer', 'tested by TRIDYsign' or 'editorial analysis'. TRIDYsign is a new publication; we do not attribute to this byline any years of experience, degrees or credentials we cannot demonstrate.
Areas of expertise
- Verification of manufacturer data sheets (Prusa, Bambu Lab, Elegoo, Anycubic, Fillamentum, UltiMaker)
- 3D printing materials documentation: temperatures, densities and drying
- Bilingual technical glossary, Mexican Spanish / English
- Licence and rights register for every file and asset we link to
- Mexican pricing and availability: MXN, tax invoicing (CFDI), warranty and retail channels
Mesa de Materiales TRIDYsign
Editorial role: materials, safety and calculators
Mesa de Materiales is the editorial role responsible for everything involving filaments, resins, safety and numbers. Its job is to read the manufacturer's original data sheet — not another site's copy — record where every temperature, density and drying time comes from, and leave the field blank when the manufacturer does not publish it. It also defines the formulas behind the cost, filament, resin and power-consumption calculators, which are published openly so anyone can check them. It does not issue medical or industrial-hygiene advice: when a material carries real risk (resin, styrene from ABS/ASA, isopropyl alcohol) it points to the manufacturer's safety data sheet and the applicable standards.
Areas of expertise
- Reading and cross-checking technical data sheets (TDS) and safety data sheets (SDS)
- FDM printing parameters: nozzle and bed temperature, enclosure and drying
- MSLA resin printing: exposure, IPA washing, curing and responsible disposal
- Densities and per-part cost calculation in Mexican pesos
- Power consumption and how it translates into the CFE tariff the reader enters
Mesa de Diagnóstico TRIDYsign
Editorial role: troubleshooting and calibration
Mesa de Diagnóstico is the editorial role in charge of the failure library: warping, first layers that will not stick, stringing, under-extrusion, layer shifts, clogs, and the failures specific to resin. Every entry follows the same structure — symptom, causes, fixes ordered by effort, prevention — and is checked against the manufacturers' public documentation before publishing. Search aliases come from what people in Mexico actually type, in Spanish and English, not from manual translations. When a fix depends on the printer model, the entry says so instead of generalising.
Areas of expertise
- Diagnosing FDM and MSLA print failures from the visible symptom
- Calibration: bed levelling, Z-offset, flow, retraction and temperature towers
- Extruder, nozzle and build-surface maintenance
- Real Mexican search vocabulary, bilingual Spanish/English
- Cross-checking against public documentation from Prusa, Bambu Lab, Elegoo and Anycubic
How this is funded
Some outbound links to shops may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to the buyer. It is explained without euphemism in the affiliate disclosure. We accept no paid content or sponsored mentions inside guides, and no commercial agreement includes copy approval.
How to reach us
For proposals, questions or complaints: hola@tridysign.com. To report a factual error there is a dedicated route on the contact page.
We are especially interested in hearing from people printing in Mexico: what you can actually get, at what price, with what warranty, and what broke. That knowledge is published nowhere, and it is the reason this site can add something.