However, it’s missing something I really need now that I never thought I needed with my previous laptops: a good graphics card.So I taught myself the basics of computer hardware last year and put together a plan to build myself the ultimate PC! Up until this point, getting myself an actual PC seemed so far out of reach, I never considered it to be an option. Around $1100, it has 16 GB of RAM, an Intel Core i7, and a 1 TB hard drive. Then that hard drive died three days later, and we discovered the motherboard was faulty! Great!Well, need a new laptop again! I received this one for Christmas of that year:Which is the laptop I currently use. The hard drive died after not even one year of use, and my dad replaced it. Well, this guy didn’t last long, because he was a refurb (I advise against purchasing refurbished laptops). This one was a 2-in-1 touchscreen laptop, with an Intel i7 Processor, with 12 GB of RAM (I think) and a 1 TB hard drive. It survived two or three drops from a foot or two height, and also survived a full glass of V8 spilling into the keyboard.Then I started playing around with Blender 3D, FL Studio, and video editing, and the laptop inevitably started bogging down over time.Then I upgraded to this:Again, bought this with my own money: around $900.
It served me well for almost 6 years from 2011 to late 2016.Although it was old, this thing was durable AF. I believe this cost me around $500, which got me an Intel Core i3 processor and a whopping 4 GB of RAM, and a 500 GB hard drive. I was 11 when I purchased this:The HP Pavilion g6, super budget laptop, was my FIRST laptop I have owned. At what age did you get your first personal computer? Often they will have a printer or printers and people that know how to use them! You can likely get hands on experience. This can get some experience working with these materials and machine.If you have a Makerspace in your area, this could be the best source for information. It can be costly, but the have tutorials and design specs for several materials, as wells as info how each material is printer. You can get so work on designing for higher end machines by using a service like shapeways or ponoko.
I am personally a blender user primarily and can say that blender had been focusing on a lesson plan specifically on modeling for 3D printing recently.If depending on what you want. Remember that since your making something that will be real, look up, tutorial that focus on designing for 3D printing. YouTube has many tutorials to help learn any modeling package. Instructibles can give ideas for modifications or post print clean up, as well as see what others are doing with their printers.If you wish to design items, look into sketchup, fusion360, blender, or some other modeling package. In your interest in consumer kits printers or DIY 3D printers this is a great resource.Thingiverse is a good resource for things to print and to see what others are doing. It is becoming less relevant in some way but a great deal of innovation continue from there today. It may not be the simplest place to navigate but it is pretty much were the modern 3D printing movement stated.
That is a free update to everyone in the course.Depends on what you are doing.One of the more important resources is the reprap wiki and it's forum.
Hit render, and you will have the model in scale.Īt the downloads section of the course, you can get a PDF file explaining the conversion.Īfter that, we use Inkscape to make additional adjustments like creating a PDF file for print and add text labels. Create the equivalent model and match the camera scale to the object. After performing a conversion based on paper size, you will get a size in Blender Units. How can you set the scale? You have to draw the paper you wish to use for print, and based on that paper size we create an object in Blender with the proper dimensions.įor instance, we can get a paper in A4 size and choose a scale of 1:100. You will learn to export the file in SVG format and get it ready for print. If you are one of the students of our course about architectural documentation with Blender and Freestyle, we just updated lesson 07 showing the process to set up any drawing for print. You won’t get the same amount of features from a dedicated CAD tool, but it can help a lot.Īs a highlight, you can also get those renders and prepare them for print and set a scale to any render. It could be something simple like sketching a floor plan or also go for a full project. Using the precision modeling options of Blender, you can create technical drawings using FreeStyle tools. The NPR render engine that allows you to create cartoon style images is also a great feature of Blender. From all possible options to render architectural projects in Blender one that usually people forget is FreeStyle.
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