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Last month, MakerBot unveiled MakerBot in the Classroom: An Introduction to 3D Printing and Design, a guide for teachers and students who have never used a 3D printer before.
This guide is a great resource for beginners.
It is broken down into three sections:
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- A primer on 3D printing technology – This section covers how MakerBot 3D printers work, technological terminology, and how 3D printing technology generally works.
- Explanations of how to download, scan, and design models to print – This section dives a little bit deeper into the process of 3D printing covering all the ways you can download, scan and design 3D models for a MakerBot.
- Classroom project ideas – This section features several different projects that bring 3D printing to life. Each project introduces a different free 3D design software tool and hwo to design an object using these tools, including OpenSCAD, 123D Design, Tinkered, and Sculptris. For example, the Make Your Own Country, which casts students as surveyors of a new land, starts in Tinkercad.
This guide is a great way to allow students to create original designs rather than simply downloading and printing files. Anyone can learn to create with 3D printing through project-based learning and experimentation!
You can download MakerBot in the Classroom for free if you’ve registered your MakerBot Replicator.
Don’t have a MakerBot? Feel free to download a free sample chapter and project here.
Give it a try and let us know how your projects turn out.
