Learn how to design and 3D print with Tinkercad in this beginner-friendly guide. Step-by-step tips to turn your ideas into tangible creations.

I made some mistakes learning how to use the $300 Elegoo Centauri Carbon 3D printer, but it didn't take me long to make my first part.

Sending it to the printer That's the entire 3D design for this project. All we need to do is select it, export it as an STL file, and send it into Cura to be sliced for printing.

The most common reason an STL file may be not quite right is a mechanical connection where some piece isn’t quite as the designer expected, so the 3D model that interfaces with it no longer fits.

Learning to use a 3D printer for the first time is not complicated, but learning to do it well comes with a significant learning curve.

When you're done, click Design > Download for 3D Printing and you'll immediately get an STL file you can load into your printer.

Rather than change the home position on his Z axis, [Mikey77] used AutoDesk 123D to create 3D PCB designs. Each of his .stl files has a “spacer bar”, which sits at the bed level.

3D printing can be a fun and productive hobby and skill, but there can be a lot of confusion around the files involved. Here are some you should know about.

Github, everyone's favorite nerdery, added STL object file support - basically a system for uploading and rendering 3D models - in April. Now, however, they've improved their service with a system ...