Cheater's Guide to 3D Print Designing!
Hey all,
Know quite a few of you have asked about this as a general topic, so I thought I'd throw a quick crash course video together on how to create your own custom 3D Prints!
And I'm building out a resource library of all the cool generators I find, so check this out too as I'll keep adding to it!
https://handsonkatie.com/makers-library/
Hope you enjoy!
The Quick & Dirty Guide to Making Custom 3D Prints! (YouTube)
Comments (14)
Gwaith ardderchog, Katie! This popped up on my feed last night and I was actually surprised that it wasn’t just another generic Fusion tutorial, but something more more thoughtful and overarching. I ended up staying awake way too long watching your other videos and your viewpoint and content is refreshingly different. Your video on what 3D printer to get was hands down better and more thoughtfully put together than the generic “get a Bambu Lab” (although I’d love to know your thoughts on the recent controversy). Then there’s Neogrid, Underware… It is also really lovely to have a Cymraes pumping out all of this great content! Looking forward to what’s ahead. Daliwch ati i fod yn rhyfedd!
O Anthony! Diolch yn fawr iawn am dy eiriau caredig! Mae’n ddrwg gen i i mi fethu dy neges pan wnest ti ei hysgrifennu – digwyddais i ddod ar ei thraws heddiw! Funny you should mention the recent controversy! In pondering that, it raised some very interesting thoughts about the broader area of open vs closed source. So at the last moment I've decided to change my plans for this week and will be trying a slightly different sort of video - a more philosophical one which I hope you will enjoy and might even answer some of your questions directly! Diolch eto am dy nodyn!
I've never been able to get my head around Fusion360. I use AlibreCAD and there's a low cost Alibre ATOM version which can also do all the things that Katie describes. It's worth downloading the free version just to see if it works for you. I'm not sure if it's a left/right brain type of issue but I've had friends who have struggled with Fusion but find Alibre easy. OTOH, Alibre cannot convert STL files to STEP files while Fusion360 can. At least the non-free version can. And so many of the really great 3D prints out there unfortunately are only STL files. Superb job on that video Katie.
Absolutely, these are really just generic concepts, they should work in almost any decent CAD application! If it wasn't for my multi device making, then Fusion would be overkill for me!
Howdee. Recently bought a 3D printer and was wondering if this episode is downloadable so I don’t need YouTube all the time. The way you presented it sounds easy but want easy access to refresh my memory. Thanks for your continual inspiration
Hey, yes of course, I guess the easiest might be to just use YouTube downloaders which are easy enough?
I downloaded the free version of Fusion 360 months and months ago and have yet to spend much time with it. You've inspired me to start learning it with your five command sets! (Though I have to admit the main reason I haven't started using it yet was due to your rules of 3D CAD!)
There is a good link to some Fusion tutorials in the useful links section on discord
That maybe the most excited I've ever seen anyone over a chamfer
Oh I love a good chamfer! 😂😂
Katie told me you need 5 commands in fusion and she's right. Picked up and was designing in a weekend
That’s a really useful resource Katie thank you! A couple I didn’t know about in that list that I’ll be definitely using
I still use Tinkercad and do the classic ‘cut and paste’ using the add and subtract tools to build my models. Classic 1980 stylee 😂
Works quite well though!