I have mentioned it already in one of the earlier posts of the 3D printing series, but now I’ll be going into a bit more details about the software and how to get it ready for use specifically for 3D printing. SketchUp is a great tool to get started with basic 3D modeling for use with your 3D printer. All that is needed only if you don’t already have the required skillset for 3D modeling, if you do, then you can probably just skip this post.
Then if interested you can continue building on top of that and go to the more complex stuff, it is up to you, but you need to start from somewhere. Of course you will not be making complex and very realistic 3D characters for use in movies in a couple of days, I talking about much more basic things as a beginning. That is a new skillset that you need to acquire and the nice thing is that the basics are actually not that complex and you can quickly get into it. In order to do that however you will need to know how to make virtual 3D models of the things that you need to use the 3D printer for building. You design it, you print it and there it is doing something useful already and it all happens in a couple of minutes or hours, depending on what you do. The best thing about having a 3D printer at home is that you can quickly design new things that you may need at home and then start using them, it could be something basic, it could be something more complex… it does not matter. Surely there are already a lot of 3D models available for you to 3D print and use, but that is not the whole idea of the 3D printer and is most certainly not the best way to take advantage of one. 3D printer manufacturers conveniently forget to mention that it will be good to have at least some basic 3D modeling skills in order for you to be able to create things that you can them print on the 3D printer they sell you. With the boom of interest in 3D Printers in the recent years and these devices getting widely available and at attractive prices for home users one of the most overlooked things is that you will need some skills to properly use these devices. These are people with the right set of skills needed to create a product including 3D modeling that use the 3D printer as a helpful tool.
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