3D printing by Layo Animals

What is a 3D printer?

animal200606 — 2019-11-19 11:58:01 UTC

A 3D printer is a machine capable of replicating 3D designs, creating pieces or volumetric models from a computer-made design.

Or:
A 3D printier is a machine cappable of creaating whatever you want based on a 3D design.

Easy figures that can be printed (Thingiverse).

animal200606 — 2019-11-19 12:03:49 UTC

3D printing test

Files recognizable by the printer

animal200606 — 2019-11-19 12:11:38 UTC

STL (acronym from English "Standard Triangle Language") is a computer-aided design (CAD) computer file format that defines geometry of 3D objects, excluding information such as color, textures or physical properties that do include other CAD formats.

Or:
A file used to represent a design.

Programs for 3D design

animal200606 — 2019-11-26 11:45:17 UTC

Ones of the best 3D designing programs are the following.

SolidWorks:
It's a profesional 3D designing program.
Tinkercad:
easy program for beginers.
Freecad:
More advanced than tinkercad but it's free.
Sketch up:
program used for designing houses.

Slicing programs

animal200606 — 2019-11-28 07:26:53 UTC

Each 3D printer works with a special program that slices the STL and converts it into a Gcode that the printer recognises.
Slic3r:
Program used to gerate G-code.
Cura:
similar to slic3r.

Types of 3D printers

animal200606 — 2019-11-28 07:43:22 UTC

there are several types of 3D printing:
FDM:
-Delta: Works with 3 arms.
-Polar: Works with one arm
-Cartesiana: Works with two arms that work in x and y
SLA
works with resin
SLS
Works with powder
SLA example