Primary Components of 3D Printers
3D Slicing
3D Printing Process
Key 3D Printing Facts
3D Printing Miscellaneous
100
This spool contains this plastic material used to 3D print.
What is filament?
100
This is the file type that we export from OnShape before we digitally slice the 3D object?
What is an STL file?
100
This is accomplished before printing so that the filament will properly adhere to the build plate surface
What is applying glue to the build plate?
100
These two 3D printer components get warm - hot in order for 3D printer to work as designed and should be handled with care/proper protection when printing or performing general maintenance and cleaning.
What are the build plate and print head/extruder nozzle?
100
This is 3D print error where the bottom of your 3D print bulges outwards due to the build plate being a bit too warm?
What is called Elephant's Foot?
200
These are used to control movement of 3D printer parts in the x, y, and z directions. Each of these turns either a belt or a big screw to move in one linear direction.
What are stepper motors?
200
This is the file type that is created after we slice the model in our Dremel Digilab Software that the 3D printer can read in order to generate a 3D print.
What is a .gcode file?
200
This occurs when the filament passes thru the Print head.
What is melting the filament?
200
PLA, ABS, & PETG
What are different types of filament?
200
The picture below is example of this kind of 3D print error when the print bed may be too cool.
What is 3D print not sticking to Bed/plate?
300
Object 4 displays this 3D printer component.
What is the Print head and nozzle (or extruder nozzle)?
300
The model you are slicing can be moved, rotated, dilated (enlarged or shrunk) & mirrored using tools located on this part of the Dremel Digilab Software interface
What is the left side of the interface/screen?
300
The task we perform any time we re-insert the build plate/print bed back into our 3D45 3D printers?
What is leveling the build plate/print bed?
300
3D Printers can't print in thin air, they have to print on to something below it. This is what the 3D printer prints on if there is overhang on the model.
What are supports?
300
3D printing is an example of this type of manufacturing.
What is additive manufacturing?
400
Object 1 displays this 3D printer component.
What is the Print Bed/Build Plate?
400
This is the part (or button) of the 3D Dremel Digilab Software interface is that what we click once we are done inserting and manipulating our models so we can begin to export the .gcode file.
What is the lower right portion of the screen or the "Prepare" button?
400
This device is what we save our STL and GCODE files to in order to transfer files from OnShape to laptop to the printers.
What is a USB drive?
400
This setting determines how dense you want the inside of your model (in a percentage of space filled up inside model)
What is infill?
400
The general process how a 3D printer works.
What is the general process of manufacturing that occurs by laying down many thin layers of a material in succession?
500
This spool of filament tells us it contains this type of filament.
What is PLA?
500
The purpose of slicing in the 3D printing process.
What is converting the file from a digital 3D model comprised of small triangles into layers or slices that a 3D printer can read?
500
These three functions can be performed using the front screen on our 3D45 Dremel 3D Printers.
What are a) leveling the build plate/print bed, b) changing filament, c) begin a 3D build/print?
500
STL or Standard Tessellation Language files is the file type that 3D digital models use. These shapes are what STLs are comprised of.
What are triangles?
500
This occurs when the filament is carefully deposited onto the build plate.
What is the filament hardens/reforms (after being melted)?