3D Printing

Getting Started

Starting with a new 3D printer can be exciting, but also scary! Here are some incredibly helpful links.

Fixes/Calibration

• My prints look like this, let’s fix them!
• 3D Calibration Guide: Excellent guide to calibrating your printer
• How to Calibrate Your Extruder: A little focused around Matter Controls, but show be helpful for most printers
• Layer Shifting Guide
• Unclog a 3D Print Nozzle
• Ultimaker Visual Troubleshooting Guide

Delta Printer Guides

• Generic Delta Printer Calibration or Rostock Calibration Guide
• Dimensional Accuracy for Delta Printers

GCode

• The 10 Most Common Commands in 3D Printing

OpenSCAD

• OpenSCAD Coding Guidelines
• Forum Post to Fix STLs using Meshlab

3D Rendering

The objective is to render STL into more realistic images. Currently focused around PovRay as a tool

• Models to be incorporated into PovRay
• Povray tutorial

3D Printers

• Creality
  • Ender 3: Our Main Go-To printer.
  • CR-10: If you need a bigger platform
• Rostock - A neat “delta” style 3D printer.

Accessories

• Ikea Lack 3D Print Enclosures: Really neat idea for enclosing your 3D printers using Ikea parts as a base.

CNC

• Interesting CNC Build using a wooden frame. Also uses Arduino to control electronics
• Easel: Interested web-based CAD/CAM for 2.5D modelling. Easy to use, and integrated into GRBL based controllers so that you can Mill directly from the web interface.