Christmas Gift with 3D Printing
One distinct yearly issue that we all go through is when it comes to special occasions, countless hours are spent on looking for an appropriate present for our loved ones. In an attempt to create more personalized gifts, I chose a more creative option to 3D print my own presents. Thingiverse and Myminifactory offer some pre-existing designs and files to print. This process took some time but the effort spent on the computer searching for suitable presents felt more worth while than going out store to store. After choosing to print a Santa with his sleigh and reindeers, I was so happy that the whole 3DF team all helped me in the process of making the perfect gift. The first step was to download the files in its .stl format. I had technical help from Jacky-our Principle Consultant, to look over the file to ensure its printability and appropriate size dimensions. In this case, red was the only spare filament I had. Therefore we all collectively decided to print all the parts in red and to use a post processing method to change the colors of particular pieces. Once all the pieces were printed, Adrian proceeded with cleaning up the…
