[3D Printing Guide 1.3] - Why do I need a 3D printer?steemCreated with Sketch.

in technology •  8 years ago  (edited)

Well that question is asked to me nearly on a daily basis... I think it is the most asked question when it comes to 3d printing on the whole world. People often think a 3D printer is some useless device nobody really need but when you realize what different products or parts can be printed it is just awesome!

So what shall I print with a 3d printer?

From affordable prostheses (for children and adults) to tools, art, products, parts, prototypes or some broken parts for your mixer in the kitchen. The possibilities are endless & I printed hundrets of things over the years - here are a few:

...or some other products or parts:

...or here you see some of my indoor racing drones:

Interested in 3d printed drones?
Join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PrintedQuads/

Do I not have to learn CAD?

Of course if you want to design your own products you have to learn drawing - there are nowadays a lot of different programms available... expensive ones or even good free ones. We will discuss the topic "CAD - Software" in a later article. The best is that you can use someone others design what people share and print them immediately. So there are so many usefull things out now today it what you only need to print. Look on Thingiverse - you could print for years products without draw one line: http://www.thingiverse.com/

Consider to get one - get that top 3d printer for 200usd


https://steemit.com/threedprinter/@hastla/3d-printer-build-the-tevo-tarantula-what-you-shall-do-and-faq

You missed the previous articles? -> here:
[3D Printing Guide 1.0 - Overview]
https://steemit.com/technology/@hastla/4j3h3c-3d-printing-guide-1-0-overview

So stay tuned for article 4 - greetings!


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Amazing! The future is now.

Yeah definately!

What kind of material does it use?

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

Hallo @hastla,

wieviele Farben kannst du drucken? Kann man beispielsweise Lego-Bausteine günstiger drucken als sie im Laden kosten?

Noch was anderes, nimm besser den steemit Tag raus, den mögen die SteemCleaners gar nicht unter Posts die nicht steemit-relevant sind.

Jetzt hab ich Dein Kommentar übersehen :-)

Also ob der preis mit Lego konkurieren kann müsste ich später nachsehen - die sind auch aus ABS (glaub ich). Also das kann gedruckt werden auch & kostet ca. 20€ / kg was ganz schön viel ist wenn man druckt. Glaub jetzt aber das die Bausteine in der Masse produziert fast billiger sind gekauft - weiters dauert der Druck eine schöne Zeit.

Are so many things we can doing with 3D printer!

But seriously is in important learn CAD, if not you only can print the things that others did and not gonna feel the emotion and pride of see something design by you coming real.

Agree - but people are scared from printing alone.... what I learned in my 30k people heavy fb group. So when you say them now that they have to build the printer (as otherwise the will never understand printing) and learn CAD all will step away in front :-)

What I found out - all what print learnt hat anyway. Thanks @jocra for your resteem, very happy!