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6 Tips To Make Your Designs Perfectly 3D Printable

By Caleb Kraft

Caleb Kraft

I get ridiculously excited seeing people make things. I just want to revel in the creativity I see in makers. My favorite thing in the world is sharing a maker's story. email me at caleb (at) make.co or You can find me on tiktok, talking about my animals at TikTok

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For many folks the journey with a 3D printer follows a familiar path. You get a machine, you download a bunch of files to print, you get bored with that, you discover how hard designing things really is. Alan Mandic has some tips for you to bring your own custom designs to a more professional […]

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How To Choose The Right 3D Modeling Software

How To Choose The Right 3D Modeling Software

By Caleb Kraft

Caleb Kraft

I get ridiculously excited seeing people make things. I just want to revel in the creativity I see in makers. My favorite thing in the world is sharing a maker's story. email me at caleb (at) make.co or You can find me on tiktok, talking about my animals at TikTok

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“Which 3D modeling software should I learn?” That’s a really tough question to answer! There are so many options, from simple to complex, free to thousands of dollars. The best choice depends on your personal style of creation. If you break it down that way, you end up with some pretty well defined categories. There […]

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How To Convert Your 3D Scan To Something Usable In Fusion 360

How To Convert Your 3D Scan To Something Usable In Fusion 360

By Caleb Kraft

Caleb Kraft

I get ridiculously excited seeing people make things. I just want to revel in the creativity I see in makers. My favorite thing in the world is sharing a maker's story. email me at caleb (at) make.co or You can find me on tiktok, talking about my animals at TikTok

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One of the more frustrating experiences in digital fabrication is getting your first 3d scanner and finding out that scans are not actually that useful for cad. At least they’re not that useful if you don’t know how to turn them into something that you can edit. The channel Product Design Online has come to […]

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Parametric Containers for 3D Printing in Blender

Parametric Containers for 3D Printing in Blender

By Caleb Kraft

Caleb Kraft

I get ridiculously excited seeing people make things. I just want to revel in the creativity I see in makers. My favorite thing in the world is sharing a maker's story. email me at caleb (at) make.co or You can find me on tiktok, talking about my animals at TikTok

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Using geometry nodes, this tool creates custom enclosures in a snap!

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How To Use AI To Build Optimized Models In Fusion 360: Generative Design

How To Use AI To Build Optimized Models In Fusion 360: Generative Design

Lydia Sloan Cline

By Lydia Sloan Cline

Lydia Sloan Cline

teaches Fusion 360, 3D printing, SketchUp, and board drafting at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. Her previous works include 3D Printing with Autodesk 123D, Tinkercad, and MakerBot; 3D Printing and CNC Fabrication with SketchUp; 3D Printing Projects for Makerspaces; and Architectural Drafting for Interior Designers, 3rd Edition.

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Autodesk recently added a futuristic function to its Fusion 360 design software. The new Generative Design workspace uses cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) software that designs mesh and T-spline models with parameters that you provide. It’s called generative because the software generates dozens or hundreds of solutions from those parameters. If you don’t like any of […]

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CAD In Blender Is Here

CAD In Blender Is Here

By Caleb Kraft

Caleb Kraft

I get ridiculously excited seeing people make things. I just want to revel in the creativity I see in makers. My favorite thing in the world is sharing a maker's story. email me at caleb (at) make.co or You can find me on tiktok, talking about my animals at TikTok

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From what I understand, there have been ways of doing CAD in Blender, but recently CAD Sketcher has been released to the public which really opens up Blender to do some fancy CAD stuff. for those who are unfamiliar, let me break down why this is important. Typically CAD or Computer Aided Drafting has been […]

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Check Out The New <strong>3D</strong>EXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Makers

Check Out The New 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Makers

By Caleb Kraft

Caleb Kraft

I get ridiculously excited seeing people make things. I just want to revel in the creativity I see in makers. My favorite thing in the world is sharing a maker's story. email me at caleb (at) make.co or You can find me on tiktok, talking about my animals at TikTok

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SOLIDWORKS has announced that they have a new offering, specifically for makers! You can now get 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Makers, a whole suite of cloud based tools, for $99 a year. Let’s take a look at some of the awesome stuff that comes in 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Makers. First off, you receive 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS, which […]

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