8. Printing Your 3D Models

In This Chapter

Image What is a 3D printer?

Image Creating an STL file

Image Melting that plastic

Image Moving the nozzle

Image Using software to control a 3D printer

Summary of 3D printing

Up to this point, you’ve been designing 3D models using Tinkercad ...

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