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

Nate1616

I just wanted to get the communities opinion on what would be of useful content to have.  With the 3D Printing 101 courses being put on hold because of unfortunate events i would be willing to put something together.  Now this could be anything related to printing.  From how-to, maybe new product reviews, training courses...  Let me hear your thoughts.

 

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  • The actual 3D printer, from a hardware perspective, isn't something I feel I'd need a whole lot of education with. Where I get stuck is more to do with modelling the prints on the computer, rather than the actual process of printing them out. because of this, I don't really feel like I could justify buying one.

     

    Some guidance, courses, hints, tips, advice and all the rest in this respect would be immensely useful to me, and would probably remove my barrier to actually looking at buying (or maybe making) one.

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  • The actual 3D printer, from a hardware perspective, isn't something I feel I'd need a whole lot of education with. Where I get stuck is more to do with modelling the prints on the computer, rather than the actual process of printing them out. because of this, I don't really feel like I could justify buying one.

     

    Some guidance, courses, hints, tips, advice and all the rest in this respect would be immensely useful to me, and would probably remove my barrier to actually looking at buying (or maybe making) one.

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  • in reply to spannerspencer

    A 3D printer is a bit like a microwave oven - until you get one it is hard to visualize how useful it will be. So on the motivation side, just assume it is going to be much more useful than you can currently visualize.

    On the learning curve side - mechanical CADD generally has a lot of legacy baggage making it cumbersome - a lot of steps to do anything and a lot of remembering how and what to do. I tried many CADD packages over the years and always ran into a big problem - I didn't use them enough to remember how to be efficient so every time I needed to do something it was a frustrating exercise of muddling around trying things and looking up things. I wish the interface was a efficient as Corel Draw. Anyway the (free) package I use now is 123D Design because the user interface has been minimized to an extremely small number of tools and commands - which I can pretty much remember. And if I forget, the re-learning curve is very fast. It is not immediately obvious how capable the package is because many or most of the functions in other packages seem to be missing. However it is almost always able to achieve the same results - just takes a little more thought, which I enjoy (usually).