hey its andy, and today i'm going to showyou guys a method of 3d printing without actually owning a 3d printer. now before we begin, i want to give you guys a little disclamer about his projcet. its a very fun way tobuild something and 3d print. but you're not going to get the quality and precision yousee with traditional 3d printers. that being said its a great project for almost all ages.lastly, depending on what you're trying to make, this method is very time consuming butyou will see what i mean later. for now, i suggest setting aside 2-3 hours to work onyour project. to begin your project were going to need some materials. you will need somecardboard sheets which can be either brand
new, or recycled cardboard. a bottle of glue,elmer's glue will do fine, im using tundra brand glue. an exacto knife or hobby knifeof your choosing, and a spare blade. you are also going to want to have some spray adhesive,3m or elmer's brand will do. you will also want to go ahead and download 2 things. onebeing 123d. make. which is a program designed and made by auto-desk. and a .stl file whichwe can find on thingiverse. to go any further with this project, you are going to need an.stl file. a .stl file stands for stereo-lithography file, and you can find one by going to thingiverse.com.so to get your file, open up your browser and connect to thingiverse. make sure to leavea comment thanking the designer and when were all done, make sure to go back and click imade this. once you found your model, you
can click download and begin the next process.and if you have not found your model yet just go ahead and pause the video to continue yoursearch. hopefully you have downloaded 123d. make already, and if you haven't you can gotheir website or click the link in description to download it there. now after you have downloadedthe auto-desk 123d make program from their website get your .stl file ready because weare about too need it. i chose to use a top hat octopus. now the program were using isvery powerful and has many tools. you may want to check out some of the tools, but fornow im only going to show you the main basic parts, so that you can begin your 3d printingprocess right away. once you have the program running. you need to click import to bringyour model into the view. browse until you
find it and then click open. after a few secondsa program will have given you plenty of options too chose from but for now, were only goingto be using the object size and construction techniques sections. you can begin the slicingprocess by scaling the model to your liking. but be careful not to exceed 8 inches becausethats the average printer sized paper. after you have scaled your model chose stacked slicesunder the constructions techniques drop down bar. here we can change the orientation ofeach cardboard layer and get a rough estimate of what the final piece will look like. atthis point, i chose to leave the orientation how it is. but you can change it to howeveryou like by dragging the arrow. once you have finished orienting the piece, click get plansand then print to have a copy of the plans
printed out. you can do this for as many modelsas you want to make. were all finished in the program now but i suggest leaving it openso you can follow the assembly steps located under the assembly steps tab. so were backin the garage now and were ready to start the modeling process. go ahead and apply alight coat of spray adhesive to one side of the cardboard sheet. then let it dry for afew seconds. after that, take your template and press it firmly across the cardboard sheet.make sure you rub it so that it has a smooth finish. at this point, you can either presentthis as a present, and have them make the final model. or you can start cutting andmaking the model yourself. were almost done now, and all we have left to do is cut ourcardboard sheet up and glue it together. now
i found the easiest way to do this is by leaving123d open on one monitor and referring back to it as you cut. now im going to go aheadand start this and ill see you guys afterwards. alright guys, after about an hour of gluingand cutting cardboard i have created my "3d printed octopus" like said earlier, this printingprocess wont be giving you a 50 micron resolution. this thing is cool, but its not going to bea million dollar prototype. you can do this same process with any other models on thingiverseas long as the program can load it. i had some trouble loading this, but i didn't havetrouble with my t-rex. i dont know what the reason is behind that its just how the programwas. it took me maybe a minute or two to actually load this model in fully. but besides printingsomething just like this you can also print
some really cool models like this. this dinosauris a buff t-rex and hes awesome. a little suggestion before you go ahead and start doingthis yourself. any of these weak parts such as the tail and neck. take glue and drip itover allowing it to hardens. his tail can not be bent this way a whole lot. becausei put glue around this whole section. of course it can be bend, but just right about hereis where it stops bending and its more hard. thank you guys so much for watching my video.make sure to subscribe to stay up to date.
3d models for printing free,i plan on uploading videos every tuesday morning.dont forget to check out my twitter, instagram, and website because i also post what im workingon that doesn't happen in the video and those are exclusive content for those platforms.thank you all for joining me in this video.
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