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3D Printing

Guide to support students using 3D printers in the Innovation Lab

Once you have your STL, you must prepare it in a slicer program to turn it into instructions that the 3D printer can understand. Almost all of the self-service printers in the Innovation Lab are Prusa Mk4 machines, which use a program called PrusaSlicer. This page will walk you through how to prepare a print in PrusaSlicer, then briefly discuss the exceptions for other printers at the end.

Importing Your File(s)

There are a couple of ways to get files into PrusaSlicer

  • Drag and drop - From a Windows Explorer window, you can simply drag and drop the file you want into the build area. Just make sure you've extracted any zipped folders first.
  • Add object - The Cube with plus-sign symbol on the top toolbar of PrusaSlicer will open an explorer window where you can navigate to the location of the item you want to import.

You can put multiple items onto the build plate at once. By default they will all be overlapping with each other at the center of the build plate, but you can click each on individually to move them out of each other's way.

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