Intro To 3d Printing For Mac

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Have you always wanted to learn about 3D printing? This course is for you! We have taught over 5000 people the basics of 3D printing in our live classes, now enjoy our acclaimed instruction from the comfort of your own home! The presenter, Nick, is an acclaimed public speaker, and the lectures in this course are both informative, but easy to follow. The videos in this course go into:.

  1. Cost Of 3d Printing
  2. 3d Printer History

MacInspires’ locally owned & operated stores features acclaimed educational programs for all ages as well as efficient repair services that are trustworthy & guaranteed. MacInspires instructors and technicians inspire and solve problems while promoting the values of STEAM Education – Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Math. Aug 21, 2018 - Not all 3D modeling software is available for every operating system. The Ranking: 3D Modeling Software for Mac Users. The two most used 3D modeling software programs for Macintosh devices are freeware program Blender (score: 80) and freemium software SketchUp (75).

What is a 3d printer

The basic terminology of 3D printing. Descriptions of the major types of 3D printers, and their prices. A comparison of costs to run each printer, and when it might be better to outsource your printing to an online service bureau. A discussion on the health effects of 3D printing in your home.

Dedicated videos on the top software you can use to easily create 3D models. A dedicated video on photogrammetry: Use just your cell phone to make a 3D model!. The workflow from going from a pencil and paper design drawing to a 3D model, then to the slicing software, and finally to a print This course will help you be literate about 3D printing so you can talk to your friends or children, and gives you ideas on how you can use 3D printing in your own life. Also, it is important to note, that the instructors in this course really care about helping you, our students.ask us questions and we will help you! We want you to be very satisfied with this course! Happy creating! Nick has earned the respect of his colleagues through hard work, dedication and vision through his 15+ years in the high-tech industry.

Graduating from UC Santa Barbara with an English Major, he was hired into Sun Microsystems during the dotcom boom, and has held a number of technical roles at Sun, and more recently, at Oracle translating complex technical architectures into understandable ideas. Nick's skills go deep into both the technical understanding of the industry and the mechanics of 3D printing, and how this industry has the capability to inspire the world for the better. Nick co-founded 'HoneyPoint3D' in 2013 with his wife, Liza. HoneyPoint3D offers classes for all skill and age levels, rapid prototyping, 3D Modeling, Scanning and Printing Services.

Considered a 3D Printing retail expert, Nick has been interviewed on CNN, RT Television, San Francisco Business Times, KGO, most of the Bay Area newspapers and many more. Nick is one of the co-authors of the #1 best selling 3D printing book on Amazon, entitled 'Getting Started with 3D Printing' published in 2016 by MAKE Media.

Students are given a VeggieMake (a toy that turns produce into a cute character) – but the pieces don’t attach to the produce. Therefore, students will have to design pins. This works well because it is an easy project with minimal emotional investment plus the small pins are fast to print and students can make changes quickly. It reinforces the idea that 3D printing is useful for quick prototyping and creative iterations. The VeggieMake also encourages students to use ugly fruits and vegetables. Print Settings Printer Brand. VeggieMake was designed as a teaching tool to introduce 3D printing and 3D design.

We designed the parts with three things in mind: the parts needed to be easily 3D printable by any printer, they needed to be printable without support structure, and they needed to be quick prints so that multiple students could share in “VeggieMaking” with a single 3D printer. We used SolidWorks to design the VeggieMake features (eyes, nose, mouth, feet, and hands). These parts were designed using advanced 3D modeling techniques, and are not intended to be changed by introductory students. We designed the VeggieMake pins using Tinkercad. We chose to use Tinkercad because we feel it is the best platform for learning introductory 3D design.

The pins were designed using a box stretched to become a long square, then adding a roof on its side to become a sharp point to insert into the produce. One trick that we used on the pin design was to cut a small slit on the end of the piece that inserts into the VeggieMake features. This small slit is helpful to add some flexibility to the pins so that they will be a nice snug fit in the features.

Search “VeggieMake” on Tinkercad to download our adaptable design and create your own pins! Overview and Background 3D printing technology is best used for prototyping ideas but we have observed that many students want to design the perfect piece for 3D printing. We’ve designed an exercise that is fun but reinforces the idea that ‘failing fast’ works to improve your ideas.

Lesson Plan and Activity Activity Introduction Introduce the idea of iterative design and prototyping. Although it is tempting to ‘just do it once’, it is difficult to accomplish your best work on the first try. Design, like learning, requires use to re-work our ideas. It is important for teachers to provide feedback to students throughout the process. The VeggieMake encourages students to use ugly fruit and vegetables.

What To Do Have one person from each pair (or group of 3) choose an ugly fruit for their creation Hand out one set of VeggieMake parts to each pair (or group of 3) and ask them to start making creatures. They will quickly determine that they can’t attach the pieces. Explain that each group will need to design a pin that will attach the pieces to the produce. (If don’t do the measure extension) Explain that the holes are designed to be 4 mm x 4 mm but due to imperfections with 3D printing, there will be variation in the hole size. Have the students draw ideas for a pin.

Encourage them to do more than one type. Depending on the age group, insist that the pen and paper design include measurements.

Cost Of 3d Printing

Introduce TinkerCad: Students can work through the tutorials available Shortcut: 1. Show the students how to drag and drop a square and then change dimensions. Add a triangle and group it with the square to make a ‘house’. Can add a hole to create a door in your house.

Students start creating! As students finish their designs, they download them as STL files. Explain how to slice the designs so they are ready for 3D printing. This is a good time to discuss how 3D printing is a layering technology.

3d Printer History

(If you need to save time, you can do the introduction of 3D printing before Tinkercad and have all the slicing done by teacher.) The first designs should be sliced at 300 nm (coarse) to make printing faster. Print first version of student designs. Only do one pin until the students have shown that their design works in more than one VeggieMake piece. These prints should be fast (less than 4 min) but it is a good time to break if needed. Students try out their design and make changes if needed. Encourage them to keep optimizing their design.

Once students know their pins will work in more than one VeggieMake piece (to account for 3D printing variability of holes), they can print 8 copies at a finer slicing (200 mm works well). This is also a good place to break and provide the set of pins to students at a later time.

Note: give students a chance to watch the 3D printing of their work. Key Questions How does 3D printing work? Why didn’t my design work on the first try? Duration One hour is sufficient for basic activity and it can be broken across several classes (e.g. Design on paper could be homework). If add in optional activities like precise measurement and/or new pieces, can be 2 to 3 hours.