You don’t need to sign in or have a buddy if you’re just starting or retrieving a 3D print.
You may use the shared SD cards and adapters in the lab. Files will be deleted periodically. When preparing a gcode file, the file name should include your first name so we know who is printing what.
If a print is obviously failing, you may stop it. You may also wish to clear the print bed and restart the print.
Never walk away from a broken printer. If a printer is damaged, please try to repair it yourself. If you don’t know how, please ask someone on staff to help.
You may remove finished prints from printbeds, and set them on the table nearby.
Academic use only. No tchotchkes, no production runs.
Long prints (more than 4 hours) should be avoided during peak demand times (~10am-10pm).
Watch the first layer to make sure the print starts successfully. Afterwards it’s fine to leave printers unattended.
No experimental filaments (without special permission). PLA only.
Parts to characterize printer perforance:
Applications and limitations
1. Parts for devices:
2. Making things additively that cannot easily be made subtractively:
3. Making things additively that could easily be made subtractively:
4. Educational and art objects:
Frogs, scanned with photogrammetry, 3D printed, and painted 2018-2020 by Mara Laslo and collaborators at Natural History Museum.