The biggest breakthrough in the stream of design has been 3D printing. Product development, which used to take months or years in the past, can now be accomplished in a matter of days thanks to 3D printing.
Designers today need to have the ability to design for manufacturing as it is the need of the hour. Almost all the mainstream design tools allow designers to convert their files to a 3D printing ready .STL format, and it is very important that you know this before going in a for a design tool.
Blender 3D is probably the only free to use and open-source design tool that allows you to export your design in the .stl format which can be used for 3D printing.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Blender 3D for 3D printing.
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Open the Blender 3D application on your Desktop/Laptop.
Create a new file and save it with an appropriate name.
