Equipment/3D Printer

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The 3-D printer is an UP! (a slightly older version of the device currently available).

You can download Quickstart manual and latest driver software from pp3dp. PLEASE do read the manual before you have a play -- it's not totally obvious how to set up a print run.

Our printer has been modified to support solid 3mm ABS plastic sheets as the base. These are disposable; they have to be cut from the big sheet and drilled using the jig we have created. The bolted-down solid plastic dramatically reduces problems with warping, and it also saves time and material when printing: you should disable the automatic raft.

Consumables

One UK supplier of consumables is Cool Components

Software

Google Sketch up - sketchup.google.com/ with stl plugin

This plugin seems to work quite well www.guitar-list.com/download-software/convert-sketchup-skp-files-dxf-or-stl

However this program repairs any incomplete stl files www.netfabb.com/

Or this program http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/

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