Intro to 3D Design and Printing for the Absolute Beginner

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OUR MAKERBOTS USE PLA

PLA, or Polylactic Acid 1 SPOOL COSTS $43

1 spool prints 392 chess pieces

This name tag took 11 minutes

This little guy took 45 ABOUTOUR

MAKERBOT

Software

Tinkercad:

browser based

FREE as in beer

integrates with Thingiverse

easy

Software

Software

Tinkercad:

Utterly reliant on Internet connection

Not precise

Engineers will hate you

Was almost killed off last year

Software

123D DESIGN ONLINE

Google SketchUp requires download

Software

Google SketchUp has awesome warehouse

Software

Software

Software

1. Tries to sell you stuff all the time2. Pro versions are very expensive3. Learning curve steep for casual

users4. Hard to make smaller objects

Makerware: slices up your object and sends it to the Makerbot MakerWare is not a

design program.

The object is built from the bottom up, one sliver at a time.

Software

Thingiverse

clearinghouse for the 3D designs of others.

Allows you to download and alter according to Creative Commons licensing.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:130412

GETTING STARTED

Create accounts with TinkerCad and Thingiverse

Sign-up can take a few minutes to

process!

Sign-up can take a few minutes to

process!

Try these training programs!

Return to Tinkercad and Select “Create New Design”

Practice dragging Geometric shapes onto the Workplane

Practice changing your view using your mouse and the onscreen tools.

Download for 3D Printing as STL

USING MAKERWARE Uses algorithm slices your digital file into very thin layers to prepare it for 3D printing.

SIMPLE TO USE3 Buttons, 2 that actually do something helpful.

ADD brings your file into the program.

ADD brings your file into the program.

Navigate toyour file

ADD brings your file into the program.

Navigate toyour file

Put the object on the platform

Rafts and SupportsShould be removed from the project when it is finished printing.

Supports help prints with extreme overhangs. If you have an overhang that extends out at greater than 45 degrees, then you need a support.

Rafting helps with uneven shapes or prints that have trouble sticking to the build plate

ADD brings your file into the program.

Navigate toyour file

Put the object on the platform

The Magical Preview Button!

IMPORTANT!

Click MAKE to preview

ADD brings your file into the program.

Navigate toyour file

Put the object on the platform

ALL these presets can stay the same.

These are up to you

ADD brings your file into the program.

Navigate toyour file

Put the object on the platform

The Magical Preview Button!

Won’t effect prints in progress

The Magical Preview Button!

How long will this take?

What this thing will actually look like!

What was promised on Thingiverse.

What the preview told me.

FAIL!

ADD brings your file into the program.

Navigate toyour file

Put the object on the platform

The Magical Preview Button!

Do it! You know you want to.

MAKERBOT MAINTENANCE

Wonky PLA load

Unaligned platten

the 2 things that cause the most problems are:

MAKERBOT MAINTENANCEThe 2 things that cause the most problems are:

Unleveled build plate

• Wedging

• Velcro-ing

• Misalignment

Bad PLA Load

• Air Printing

• PLA feeder Clicking

• Filament wadding at head

MAKERBOT MAINTENANCE

Wonky PLA load

trim the end of the filament before loading and don’t be afraid of pushing too hard when loading.

Staff can’t load and unload spools. The color that is on is the color your print will be.

MAKERBOT Digitizer

MAKERBOT Digitizer

MAKERBOT Digitizer

1.

2.Each pass takes 9 minutes

3.Combining multiple scans makes better prints

4.Works with MakerWare

Makes a 3D Scan of an object.

• Getting feedback from participants

Make your survey:simplerepeatableproblem solving

Fill out a survey, get a free print!

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