Name: 3D Printing at DoES Liverpool: Getting started
Start: 2026-03-07T13:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-07T17:00:00+00:00
Location: DoES Liverpool

3D Printing at DoES Liverpool: Getting started

Let's get started with the basics of 3D design and printing so that your ideas can come to life on the DoES Liverpool machines
About this Event

3D printing offers designers, creators, makers and hobbyists a powerful addition to their toolkit. This workshop has been specifically designed for absolute beginners to start bringing their ideas to life on the 3D printers at DoES Liverpool.

During the 4 hour course, we’ll cover the following topics:

Basic components and operation of a filament 3D printer
Filament materials
Apps for creating and editing 3D models
Optimising designs for printing
Useful sites for downloading existing models
Post-print and complementary processes
Tips, tricks and common problems

The course assumes general computer skills, and experience with some form of computer graphics (even drawing in Powerpoint) is very helpful.

To get the most from the workshop, attendees will require their own laptop and an SD card (full size) for transferring files to the 3D printer.

By the end of the course, attendees will be able to create their own basic designs and use the filament 3D printers at DoES Liverpool.

Please note that since prints typically take several hours to complete, we will not be printing out your own designs at the workshop; the idea is that you can come back to DoES and print your own :-)