What is the 3D printing community/group looking for?

Thanks you all for the feedback.  It seams like the majority of you said that having some sort of modeling tutorials would be beneficial.  What tools specifically as there is endless amount to choose from?  Your average user would probably use something like Autodesk 123D, OpenSCAD, TinkerCAD (Autodesk Owned also).  Now you get into more complex software such as Autodesk Inventor, Blender, Sketchup, Revit, 3ds Max, Onshape (my favorite non Autodesk product).  Let me know what i should focus on as I'm pretty fluent in most listed except Blender. 

Nate

Nate I am maintaining (at least I try) what I promised. I am starting - the first is already saved in draft - a series of articles to explore all the possible aspects concurring to reach a well 3D printed object. I use things and materials I have experimented, from the CAD approach (no matter what cad it is) up to the printer assembly or modding to get the better performances. It is not a easy job but to be honest I like to share it here, that IMHO it is the community that most deserve something like this. Sure many things are missed (for now at least, in future who can say?) especially related to the materials used. I have worked a lot with the ABS and recently almost only with PLA while in this moment I see that it is growing fast the offer of different kind of materials available on the market to produce specific 3D printed objects.

As a preview, the following image is the subject of this first article.

Enrico

Nate I am maintaining (at least I try) what I promised. I am starting - the first is already saved in draft - a series of articles to explore all the possible aspects concurring to reach a well 3D printed object. I use things and materials I have experimented, from the CAD approach (no matter what cad it is) up to the printer assembly or modding to get the better performances. It is not a easy job but to be honest I like to share it here, that IMHO it is the community that most deserve something like this. Sure many things are missed (for now at least, in future who can say?) especially related to the materials used. I have worked a lot with the ABS and recently almost only with PLA while in this moment I see that it is growing fast the offer of different kind of materials available on the market to produce specific 3D printed objects.

As a preview, the following image is the subject of this first article.

Enrico

I know another topic that i think would be beneficial would be the slicing program and all the settings that can make or brake a print.  I would say this was the biggest obstacle i had to overcome when I first got into printing.  Depending on the object being printed, using slic3r is beneficial but other times you might want to use Kisslicer.  Richard Horn did a great blog post a while back on the different slicing programs and how they generate tool paths that effect the quality of the print.

Nate

Correct Nate, this will be dedicated article, as need a series of specific consideration. Unfortunately most of the users does not consider factors that has serious influence on the sliding choices, coming from the physics of fluids, material characteristics and many other things.

enrico