Additive Manufacturing – Part 2, by M.
…which is a text document. After uploading the text document to the printer either via a direct USB link or a sd card, you then can select the file in the printer screen and begin printing. It should also be noted that in many cases one will not even have to design anything with CAD, as there are plenty of online repositories of CAD files that are freely shared which can be downloaded now and stored on a hard drive or DVDs for use in the future. The following is a list of some popular hobbyist additive manufacturing websites: Thingiverse – This is the most popular database of stl files for 3D printing. Nearly anything you want can be found here. The issue is that the website is horribly run and has many issues. It is necessary to download the brave internet browser and download the Thingiverse Downloader extension by…