Data Competency: 3D Printing

You'd like to learn about 3D modeling and printing to materialize work-related tools or your creative ideas?

Since 2012 when 3D printing became affordable at home with printer DIY kits, it allowed to speed up rapid prototyping processes significantly, allowing everybody to materialize ideas within hours to three-dimensional objects.

During two sessions of 4h each, this course first introduces the participant gently into the creation of three-dimensional models with Blender for 3D printing.

It follows an introduction into the required preprocessing step of the model, the so-called slicing. It describes the subdivision of the the volumetric model into two dimensional layers or slices. In case of the most popular and cheap printing method, the fused deposition modeling (FDM), the slices are the optimized tracks for the printing head of the 3D printer which extrudes hot plastic. This way, the volumetric model is slowly assembled by adding layers of plastic on top of a heated printing bed.

The participants will then be familiarized with the usage and handling of a 3D printer by the example of one of the most popular models, a Prusa MK3S. At the end of this course, the participants will be given the opportunity to print their own 3D model which they had created during this course.

This course does not require any prior knowledge in 3D modeling or printing. The course language will be English.