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What is the course about?
This course will explain how to prepare files for desktop 3D printing with Ultimaker’s CURA software. We will explore the main tools of the program to enable you to create your own 3D prints using the software. We will demonstrate this workflow by setting up a 3D print file for a 1:2000 scale model of OMA’s CCTV building.
CURA is the most popular 3D printing software in the world. It’s free to use and it’s made by 3D printing company Ultimaker. CURA is converts your 3D objects into files for 3D prints, and creates files specifically for FDM 3D printing, which is the most common type of 3D printing currently used
What will you learn in each video?
- 9 tutorials
- 25 minutes
- CURA
CURA is the most popular 3D printing software in the world., It’s free to use and it’s made by 3D printing company Ultimaker. This lesson will examine what we can use CURA for and how to download and install it onto your machine.
This lesson will examine the user interface of CURA, and how to navigate around the build plate and 3D model in the main viewport.
CURA lets us set up a digital version of our 3D printer to write files specifically for our own 3D printer. This lesson will explore how to setup a 3D printer inside CURA.
This lesson will examine the typical steps for importing a 3D model into CURA and aligning it to our 3D printers print bed.
Slicing in CURA is the process of turning our 3D geometries into a series of layers to print on our 3D printer. Let’s create a basic setup for a first pass slicing our geometry for 3D printing. This lesson will examine how to slice, and how to visualise sliced layers to better understand how our file will print.
This lesson will examine the recommended print settings available in CURA, and how adjusting these settings will affect the way our object prints.
When 3D printing, you will often come across parts of your geometry that are hovering in mid-air with nothing below. These are conditions where we need to add something called supports. This lesson will explore different ways to add supports to your 3D print in CURA.
Once we have finalized our print settings, we can slice and export our file. This lesson will examine best practice for exporting files for 3D printing.
This lesson will provide a few helpful tips to ensuring your 3D print file from CURA runs successfully on your machine.
What are the learning objectives for the course?
- Understand what CURA is and what it can be used for
- Understand the CURA interface & 3D printer setup
- Have an ability to import 3D models into CURA and customize the recomended settings for 3D printing
- Understand how to export gcode for 3D printing