3D Printing 101 – What is 3D Printing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxh9oXpxNn8& This is very late getting to you, and a bit out of order. The end of the 3D printing 101 series, the part where you get some hands-on with slicers and actually make something, I wanted to get out there first. Then, I went back and wrote the other chapters. As I do I’ll insert them into the youtube …

3D Printing 101 – Slicing a model

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7brUq9DOdY Slicing is the first step in the 3D printing process. For most FFF 3D printers the slicer is a piece of software running on a computer outside the 3D printer itself. Your computer. In this chapter we’ll go through the process of downloading, installing, and using the slicer to make a GCode file that the 3D printer can use …

3D Printing 101 – Slicer Settings

Click to play video Slicers are a very special piece of software that turns a 3D model into instructions that a 3D printer can follow to make a 3D print. Slicers do not generally create the 3D model, for that, you need a separate piece of software for CAD or 3D design. Or you can download the 3D model that …

3D Printing 101 – Anatomy of an FFF 3D Print

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HpHw4fbhUk So now that we’ve talked about the 3D printer, let’s talk about the anatomy of an FFF 3D print. Here is a 3D print stopped before it completed. Looking inside this print the parts of an FFF 3D print can be illustrated. FFF 3D prints are made in layers. The lowest layer is the first, the next layer goes …

3D Printing 101 – The FFF Process

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-e-SQk-wmM Your first 3D printer is likely to be an FFF or FDM, 3D printer. both work on the same principal, melting a material and depositing it in 3D space. In this chapter, we’ll be going into depth about how FFF 3D printers do their thing. The FFF 3D printing process actually starts with a piece of software called a …

3D printing 101 – Which 3D Printer should you buy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0VPHh7ifPk So you’ve decided that owning a 3D printer is for you. Excellent! Good choice. But don’t just go out and buy the first one that catches your eye. Do what your mama told you and look around a bit first. A little bit of research can go a long way to making a good decision. Of course I can’t …

3D Printing 101 – 3D Printing without a 3D Printer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhZJD5FnNJY If you don’t have a 3D printer you can still take advantage of 3D printing to make cool things and solve problems, and you don’t have to break the bank to do it. You just have to have a little bit of knowledge about 3D printing processes before starting. The key is the more you can do yourself, the …

3D Printing 101 – 8 Questions to ask before buying a 3D printer

https://www.youtube.com/watch/v8huw5MRU2E Code for 3D Printing Scholars: D:OLIYI’M D GWVODGO JWYU WV UA FTWK The first conversation between someone who does 3D printing, and someone who wants to do 3D printing usually follows a sort of pattern. Are you interested in 3D printing? Then perhaps this series of questions will tell you if 3D printing is right for you. Of course, the …

3D Printing 101 – Safety First

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FICKkseSMpk It’s important to realize that 3D printers are machines, and like most machines there are risks associated with their use. Most of these risks are minimal and the number of incidents involving 3D printing are low, especially compared with the number of 3D printers in use. However, unless you’re going to only use 3D printing services and let them …

3D Printing 101 – Introduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM-T0i-vbwY Aside: I hadn’t meant for this video to go up when it did. I accident used HitFilm’s direct upload capability, and I am not going to do that again. Not only did the update go up before I was ready to have it out there, it totally messed up settings on the video make it more trouble than it’s …