3D printing a propeller


Tuesday 5th March 2019 Click to play

Here is how I printed a propeller for my mixer using my first budget insight-live.com/material/2158">3D printer. It has already been drawn using Fusion 360. The process involved choosing Make -> 3D Print, then selecting the propeller and clicking OK. This hands it off to Simplify 3D, the software that actually ran the printer. Within Simplify 3D the object can be positioned on the bed. A moving slider can animate how the printing will be done, layer-by-layer. Finally, after making sure it is connected to the printer, it is just a matter to click to initiate. That begins the process of preheating the printing bed and head, which took about 5 minutes. After that, the actual printing takes about 10 minutes.

Pages that reference this post in the Digitalfire Reference Library:

3D Printer, Propeller Mixer


This post is one of thousands found in the Digitalfire Reference Database. Most are part of a timeline maintained by Tony Hansen. You can search that timeline on the home page of digitalfire.com.