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Learn 3D Print Modeling Tools and How to Use Coding for 3D Print Design

Alena Berezina of SelfCAD, Dr. Laura Taalman (aka mathgrrl), and Will Co of CoKreaate.

 

Learn tactical design skills from three 3D print design experts, a designer, a mathematician, and a business owner, in Advanced Design for 3D Printing on June 18.

In the first session of our live online event, you’ll hear from Alena Berezina, chief designer of SelfCAD, a fully-featured browser-based 3D modeling and slicing software. During this session, the audience will be able to choose a model they want to see designed and Alena will show you how to create it from scratch with basic shapes, 3D sketching, FreeHand drawing, shape generator, and other features of SelfCAD. You will learn how to create and modify advanced designs for 3D printing quickly and effortlessly.

Here are some potential objects that you could choose from:

 

By popular demand, we’ve invited Dr. Laura Taalman (aka mathgrrl) back to speak in our second lives session of our Advanced course. Dr. Taalman, a professor of Mathematics at James Madison University, will speak about how to use coding language and generative design for 3D printing. She’ll also show you the latest tools and how they are impacting the future of design.

By the end the week-long workshop, you’ll create your design and be able to submit it into our design contest. The winning design will be selected by a few judges from our team and our partners at CoKreate — and then printed and shipped by CoKreaate. At the end of the live session on June 18, we’ll have Will Co, co-founder of CoKreaate on camera to answer any burning questions you may have about the contest. We’ll be asking him some questions about the materials he’ll print the winning design with and his experience running a 3D printer business.

>> Register now for Advanced Design for 3D Printing

Need some fundamentals before you take this Advanced classed? Join our Beginners class on June 11.

Following our Advanced class, you’ll get to apply your design skills in our Essentials of 3D Printing with Metal. Join us on June 25 for this interactive one-week course.

Bundle the courses for discounts and completely immerse yourself into the 3D print world. Take one, two, or all three courses and get applicable 3D printing skills for your upcoming ventures.

Thank you to our Beginner Design for 3D Printing and Advanced Design for 3D Printing sponsor, SelfCAD, for the support.

 

 

*The winning design may have to be modified based on the expertise of the designers at CoKreeate. The designers will work with the winner to perfect the design under CoKreeate’s guidelines. General sizing guidelines: Sandstone: 7x7x7 inches, FDM: 8x10x8 inches, and Resin: 7x7x7 inches.

 

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Interview with Gina Scala of Stratasys on 3D Printing in Education

Gina Scala is in charge of marketing Stratasys’ education efforts. She also is in charge of marketing the company’s entry-level F123 series 3D printers.The education market is huge for 3D printing. Far from formalized education and 3D Printing is a wide open subject. In our podcast we discussed it at length. Will it have an impact on education? On what level? Will it only be available to high school students? Kindergartners? Will it be the path through which 3D printing gains in broader adoption or a fad? We spoke to Gina to find out what she thinks and what Stratasys is doing on education.

What’s happening in 3D printing education? 

Where we are seeing growth is in design schools, art schools, and in medical. A lot more areas are now taking an interest in 3D printing. They are integrating technology into curriculums and into their offerings. At the University level, people are looking at planning 3D printing more.

At some universities, they now have so many 3D printers that they use online maps to find all of the printers on campus. For the past years, there was organic growth all across the campus. Now we’re seeing universities looking more at growing intentionally. They’re looking at their needs and requirements more and are then deploying printers across campus or in labs.

We’re also seeing more and more graduate programs in 3D printing emerge as well. 

For a university should I put a 3D printer on every desk, use a cluster or a lab with a bunch of different technologies in it? 

it depends on your needs. Rapid Prototyping labs tend to have higher rates of technicians, so, for now, they have the highest productivity. Deployed printers that are used for a very specific thing do well also.

For a university that is just getting started the most important thing to do is to not have just one champion. You really will need two to three. I also wouldn’t recommend getting 40 small printers. Instead get one printer that gives you reliability and control, like the F120. You know it’s going to run and its simple to use. When you reach 70% productivity on that printer then get the next one. 

For what levels of education is 3D Printing suited?

The first 25 F120’s went to high schools. Here they’re used as shared resources. They can let people focus on the learning and logistics of 3D printing without having to fiddle with the printer.  Ease of use, plug, and play. Load your part and go. As time goes on the technology will get used more useful at lower grades.

Is lack of CAD ability holding 3D printing back?

Design for Additive Manufacturing is prerquisite to using these tools for advanced uses. This does mean that for some applications there is a barrier point. The knowledge and skills are technology are getting easier to use all the time. At some CAD packages have gotten simpler through things such as giving you primitives to use. 

an F120 and a F370

What are some new things that you’re seeing? 

Microfluidics is something that we’re seeing emerging applications in. We now have Advanced FDM in GrabCAD Print. This lets you change advanced settings such as infill/texture in Print without you having to go back to CAD. In jigs in fixtures for example on the manufacturing line, a worker could easily fix a fixture in the file in GabCAD.

We’re doing a lot of material innovation on the F123 series with things like TPU and a lot more will be coming to that platform. It is the most deployed 3D printer that Stratasys has ever had. They are more plug and print machines that make it easy and efficient for you to work with them. With a steel frame, linear rails kevlar belts and things like controlled airflow across the chamber, pound for pound they’re superior to the competition. 

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Learn 3D Printing from Design Thinking Pros Who Are Making an Impact

Allen and Diana Arseneau of Jamber and Jordan Lang, Industrial Design Lead at Propelland

Discover how to design for 3D printing with a human-centered approach from speakers who have set out to use 3D printing to improve the world.

In the first session of our online Beginner Design for 3D Print course on June 11, you’ll hear from Allen and Diana Arseneau, founders of the Jamber mug. Back in 2013, the couple was inspired to create an ergonomic mug design after seeing Allen’s elderly grandfather with arthritis struggle to take a sip from a cup. Today, they’ve reengineered a 3D print cup design that is easy and comfortable to hold — especially for those with physical challenges. In our course, they will talk about using a human centered approach to create a great design for 3D printing. Featured in Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe, get excited to hear what design tips this couple has for you.

In our second session of our Beginner course, Jordan Lang, Industrial Design Lead at Propelland, will show you his product design and prototype work in 3D printing. With a background in industrial design, he blends UX/UI design, prototyping, strategy, and visualization to make an impact with his work. During his online session, he’ll give real case studies from the Propelland studio, provide tactical skills from 3D printing design software, and show you how to create designs that make an impact on the world.

>> Register early for discounts for Beginner Design for 3D Printing

Following the Beginner course, join our Advanced Design for 3D Printing course starting June 18, where you can hone your skills and submit the design you’ve been working on into our contest. The team at 3Dprint.com will vote on the best design, and the winning design will be printed by CoKreeate, a 3D Printing & Scanning services company. *

Following our Advanced class, you’ll get to apply your design skills in our Essentials of 3D Printing with Metal. Join us on June 25 for this interactive one-week course.

Bundle the courses for discounts and completely immerse yourself into the 3D print world. Take one, two, or all three courses and get applicable 3D printing skills for your upcoming ventures.

Thank you to our Beginner Design for 3D Printing and Advanced Design for 3D Printing sponsor, SelfCAD, for the support.

 

 

*The winning design may have to be modified based on the expertise of the designers at CoKreeate. The designers will work with the winner to make the design perfect under CoKreeate’s guidelines. General sizing guidelines: Sandstone: 7x7x7 inches, FDM: 8x10x8 inches, and Resin: 7x7x7 inches.

 

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March 3DPrint.com Crash Courses: Sign Up Now with the Early Bird Rate

Want to learn 3D printing online? Throughout the month of March, we are running one-week intensive online courses for all levels. Register today—it’s the last day to get the early bird rate.

March will be full of 3D printing madness here at 3DPrint.com. Over the course of the month, we are offering four interactive online workshops that each include 90 minutes of two livestream sessions with Q&A. The dynamic programs for each course will be filled with expert advice on key principles, case studies, and interactive lessons from industry leaders. Courses include:

Here are a few highlights from two of the sessions:

In the second session of Advanced Design for 3D Printing, speaker Dr. Laura Taalman (aka mathgrrl), a mathematician and 3D designer, will go over coding for 3D printing. She’ll show you what tools are out there and how they impact the future of design.

 

Frank Medina Ph.D., consulting technical director at EWI and associate professor of mechanical engineering at UTEP, will cover key considerations for printing in metal in the second session of Essentials of 3D Printing with Metal. He’ll share current technologies and materials, processing factors that impact resolution, potential flaws and porosity, and methods to achieve desired surface finish, durability, and reliability in service environments.

 

As we continue to add to the speaker rosters, so stay tuned!

The courses are cumulative, so you can take one, two, three, or all four courses depending on what you want to learn for your 3D printing ventures. Take advantage of early bird rates and register now.

Thank you to our Beginner Design for 3D Printing and Advanced Design for 3D Printing sponsor, SelfCAD, for the support.

 

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Learn 3D Printing Design Principles from Wayfair’s Senior 3D Designer, Jordan Pelovitz

Join our Beginner Design for 3D Printing crash course on March 5 to learn from Senior 3D Designer of Wayfair, Jordan Pelovitz. At Wayfair, an e-commerce home goods company, Jordan leads a team that creates home furnishing models using Autodesk’s 3DS Max. Wayfair uses 3D modeling in place of traditional photography for generating 2D images for its catalog of products featured on the popular website.

Speaker Jordan Pelovitz

The company has become so good at creating these 3D models, it even launched Wayfair 3D University, the industry’s first comprehensive curriculum of 3D-modeling standards tailored for home furnishings suppliers and manufacturers.

In addition to this work at Wayfair, for the past five years, Jordan has taught CAD and 3D printing at a makerspace called HATCH, an initiative of the Watertown Free Public Library in the Boston area. With his free time, he develops curriculum and webinars for 3D printer companies and works as a freelance product designer, where he often uses his 3D printing skills to create client projects. His projects run the gamut from automotive, lighting, and even a 3D printed skull implant design.

Caption: From “Designing a Skull Implant with Game Art Tools” by Jordan Pelovitz on his personal blog.

We are excited to hear Jordan’s expert insight on 3D print designing and modeling in the first session of our Beginner Design for 3D Printing crash course. In Jordan’s kickoff session, you’ll learn to think like a designer and get an in-depth overview of ways to approach designing basic shapes for 3D printing. Additionally, you’ll also see a demonstration of Tinkercad, an easy-to-use 3D modeling program that allows you to turn your idea into a design for a 3D printer. In the second session of this course, you’ll learn 3D printer preparation programs and how to use them. You’ll hear case studies of difficult to plate models and discuss different orientations for different results.

Beginner Design for 3D Printing is the first of a series of four crash courses we are leading in the month of March. Our cumulative crash course series includes:

Bundle the courses for discounts and have an entire month immersed in the 3D print world. Take one, two, three, or all four courses and get applicable 3D printing skills for your upcoming ventures.