The Ultimate Getting Started Guide To 3D Printing

The best place to start you on your 3D printing journey. The aim of the The Ultimate Getting Started Guide To 3D Printing is to simplify the startup of your printing process and shorten the learning curve from ordering your printer to first print and beyond.

Getting Started in 3D Printing

Getting Started Guide 0 – How to Start 3D Printing Quickly

Getting Started 0 – How to Start 3D Printing Quickly. A quick dive into equipment, tools, config…

Getting Started Guide 1 – How to Setup and Tune Your 3D Printer

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Learn To Cad Guides

Getting Started Guide 5 – Learn To CAD

–Fusion 360 has added STEP export back to their software. Diversification is needed but for…

Getting Started in Fusion 360

The purpose of this guide is to show that CAD is not as difficult as it appears to be by offering a…

Advanced Material Guides

Getting Started Guide 6 – Advanced Materials

So you’re ready to get deep into more complicated and durable materials? Stepping past the…

How to: Print Polycarbonate on a Stock(ish) Ender 3.

Deterrence Dispensed recommends PLA+ for most firearm-related projects. PLA+ is cheap, tough enough…

A Ferrets Complete Guide to printing with ABS and ASA filaments and vapor smoothing ABS or ASA Prints

By Ferretpass with huge help from Cathode_G What will you need to get started printing ABS or ASA?…

A Ferrets Complete Guide To Printing Reinforced Nylon Filaments.

By Ferretpass, with huge help by Polymaker for providing the materials I used in this guide. (And…

A Ferrets Complete Guide To Printing PETG Filament

By Ferretpass with huge help from 3d Print General and CTRL+Pew. A special thanks to Polymaker and…

Other Equipment, Process, and Machine Guides

55 Gallon Bullet Trap – How to build

Being able to step onto your back deck and magdump into the mountain side is truly a gift. Its a…

AG Cast: ECM: How I made Rifled Barrels in my Bathtub

FIND ME ON THE INTERNETS Been a rough past couple of weeks but school is done for now at least, Big…

How to add OctoPrint to your printer

If you’ve been printing for a minute now, you’re probably interested in not having to…

Calibration Tools and Utilities

Getting Started Guide Appendix – E-Step Calibration Calculator

For use with marlin-based cartesian (XYZ) printers to calibrate the stepper motor movement of X…

Getting Started Guide Appendix – Rotation Distance Calculator

For use with Klipper-based firmware. A simple calculator used to find the rotation distance for 3D…