This may be the start of a new series of “quick coffee break tips” – random tips to help in your 3D printing journey. Preview of 3d stl files in Windows File Explorer If your preview pane in File explorer is not already showing .stl or .3ml file previews in Windows (on Macs the preview […]
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So you bought a 3D printer … now what?!
How? A quick and simplistic overview of how 3D printing works is to think of it as a glue gun that is attached to a normal printer, then add the fact that you can stack layers of these prints on top of each other and that is how you print in 3D. So, you heat […]
3D Print Bed Build Plates
Here are some tips and thoughts about 3D print beds or build plates. This is based on a several years of printing experience with a Creality Ender 3 Pro that I have over time quite heavily modded (more on that in another article). Below then are my thoughts on three common print bed types that […]