Cheater's Guide to 3D Print Designing!
Added 2025-01-18 22:15:59 +0000 UTCHey 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!
Comments
Diolch am y neges. Paid a poini am ddim byd, ti’n edrych yn brysur ar y fynud! Looking forward to the next video, it’ll be interesting to hear your take.
Anthony Jones
2025-01-29 09:54:48 +0000 UTCO 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!
Hands on Katie
2025-01-29 09:46:01 +0000 UTCGwaith 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!
Anthony Jones
2025-01-20 23:22:39 +0000 UTCAbsolutely, 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!
Hands on Katie
2025-01-19 08:32:41 +0000 UTCI'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.
John Dammeyer
2025-01-19 08:30:21 +0000 UTCLove Tinkercad too, it's great (especially for electronics fun!)
Hands on Katie
2025-01-19 07:11:51 +0000 UTCOh I love a good chamfer! 😂😂
Hands on Katie
2025-01-19 07:11:03 +0000 UTCGreat tip, there's lots of cool tutorials out there!
Hands on Katie
2025-01-19 07:10:47 +0000 UTCGreat to hear Greg, it's super fun once you're past that initial learning curve and it all 'clicks'!
Hands on Katie
2025-01-19 07:10:22 +0000 UTCHey, yes of course, I guess the easiest might be to just use YouTube downloaders which are easy enough?
Hands on Katie
2025-01-19 07:09:37 +0000 UTCHowdee. 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
Ken
2025-01-19 01:34:36 +0000 UTCThere is a good link to some Fusion tutorials in the useful links section on discord
Richard Payne
2025-01-18 23:21:21 +0000 UTCI 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!)
Greg Staten
2025-01-18 23:11:48 +0000 UTCThat maybe the most excited I've ever seen anyone over a chamfer
Simon
2025-01-18 22:37:32 +0000 UTCKatie told me you need 5 commands in fusion and she's right. Picked up and was designing in a weekend
Patrick
2025-01-18 22:36:35 +0000 UTCThat’s a really useful resource Katie thank you! A couple I didn’t know about in that list that I’ll be definitely using
Iain Hay
2025-01-18 22:32:43 +0000 UTCWorks quite well though!
Iain Hay
2025-01-18 22:31:39 +0000 UTCI still use Tinkercad and do the classic ‘cut and paste’ using the add and subtract tools to build my models. Classic 1980 stylee 😂
Bill
2025-01-18 22:21:44 +0000 UTC
