Learning Opportunities

3D Printers for Educators - Intermediate

Presented By

David Harmon & Greg Theron

Series Sessions

Date Time
Thursday, March 03, 2022 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Location

Computer of your choice -, Online, AB

This workshop builds on the fundamental skills presented in the “3D printer workshop for educators”.  Join us as we expand on 4 main areas of 3D: 

1. Advanced Slicers and Settings 

  • Use case for different slicers 
  • Limitations of FDM 3D prints 
  • Common Failures and how to troubleshoot them 

2. 3D modelling 

  • TinkerCAD and Fusion360 for education 
  • How to start and where to take it 
  • Practical 3D modelling  

3. Do's and Don’ts 

  • Print management 
  • Maintaining a healthy print farm 
  • Managing print queues for students  

4. 3D printer firmware  

  • Different type of firmware 
  • Why upgrade and change firmware 
  • Managing, editing and uploading firmware 

Through the combination of all these skills you will learn the practical management and use for 3D printers in the classroom. 

Computing Requirements 

For this session a laptop (PC/Mac) will be required that is running the most current version of operating system (windows or osx).  We will be installing the following software some of which is graphic intense so a laptop with a discrete graphics card is recommend although the integrated graphics with an intel i5 processor or better will work. 

 Course Software 

  • Cura 4.4 
  • Prusa Slicer 2.1 
  • Fusion360 
  • VScode with PlatformIO  

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