Pr-0 PrusaSlicer Foundations
About this Tutorial
About the tutorial
This course is intended for first time user of Prusa Slicer and/or 3d printing as subject. Self-taught users can also profit from the structure to consolidate essential concepts. There is a lot explaining while I gave some time for you to click around the software with me, thus gaining a first experience with its user interface and the tools that will help us to achieve a good 3D Print. We conclude the course by generating your first 3d printable file, known as GCode.
Skill level and duration
Level: First Time Users
Duration: A couple of hours tops!
In this tutorial you will learn
Download and Install
Setup your Printer
User Interface
First 3d Printable File, a Cube
The materials you will need
Your laptop with internet connection to download and Install Software during the course.
Tutorial content
• 4 Videos
• Full Tutorial Script
• Sample 3D Printable File
Why take this tutorial
PrusaSlicer is the 3D Printing software of Prusa, a great 3D Printer company and one of the Printers that we recommend. So its ideal if you are dealing with a Prusa Printer to use PrusaSlicer. So this course will help you start to understand 3D Printing Software, a particular way of production because we take a digital STL and create a guideline for a 3D Printer to make it physical. So this first look, of the user interface, the tools in hand and the configuration of 3D Slicing will be the start of the deep world of printing, trying and learning that is 3D Print.
1. Download and Install
Download PrusaSlicer for Mac or Windows.
2. Set up Printer
2.1. Configuration Assistant
Find the Configuration Wizard in Configuration.
Remove User Profiles.
Add your 3D Printer:
Select 0.4 Nozzle.
Verify the 3D Printer Brand in the LCD Panel.
Select Filament: PLA
Check all the Automatic Updates.
You can change the printer on the right side.
3. User Interface
3.1. What is Where
You can change the Options View between:
Simple
Advance
Expert
3.2. Navigation Tools
To Pan: Right Click.
To Orbit: Left Click.
To Zoom: Scrolling Ball
3.3. Setting Tabs
You can find the Settings Tabs in the upper part of the screen.
Plater
Print Settings
Filament Settings
Printer Settings
3.4. Viewing Modes
There are two sets of View of the model.
To modify the Solids: 3D Editor
To see the Slice Result: Preview Window
3.5. Object Tools
In the left side you can find the Tools:
Move
Scale
Rotate
To put one face on the Printer falt: Lay Flat
To Slice one solid: Cut
To Arrange Multiple Objects: Arrange
3.6. Object Commands
You can find the settings when you select the object in the right side.
You can set:
Position
Rotation
Scale
Size
4. First Cube
4.1. Add Shape and Modify
To add Shape: Right Click > Shape
To Scale: Scale Icon
4.2. Printer Settings
Change Print Settings: 0.3 DRAFT
Select Filament: PLA
Choose Printer.
Supports: None
Infill: 20%
4.3. Slice
You can find the Layer Selector in a right bar where you can view layer by layer the process.
You can find the Printer Route in the Lower Bar where you can see all the way of the printer.
4.4. Export
Insert your SD Card to your computer.
Export G-code.
Organize Filename.
Last Name _ Model Name _ Scale _ Machine _ Print Time
Eject and Print.
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