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Setting up Cura for beginner - 2020

  Setting up Ultimaker Cura 4.7 for beginner - 2020  About Cura software: Cura is the most commonly used slicer software for FDM 3D printing. It’s an advanced, open-source, and free to use 3D printing CAM software. It has more than 400 different settings to print  3D models. Not only cartesian system printers, but it also supports core - XY, delta printer, etc with great flexibility. Most of the printer specifications are predefined in Cura and also offer to set up custom printers - which one is great flexibility and helps full feature for enthusiastic people who would like to build their own 3D printer!! To install the latest version for windows, mac, or ubuntu, click here . Setting up cura : After downloading and installing cura for your suitable os version, it will show you a similar setting many while opening for the first time. You need to select your FDM printer from the given brand list. If your printer model is not displayed here, don't worry. You can also set up ...

Additive Manufacturing processes

  What is Additive Manufacturing? As the name suggests, Additive Manufacturing (also known as 3D printing) is a group of manufacturing techniques , which manufacture parts by adding successive layers of material with the help of computer control systems. Various materials that can be used in additive manufacturing (AM) are plastic, metal, concrete, also human tissue. In the additive manufacturing process, Computer-Aided Design (CAD) is created and utilized to manufacture 3-Dimension (3D) objects. Various CAD-CAM software is required to Design, Analyze, and Manufacture parts. Once CAD data is produced, Slicing software slices the design in different layers (as required by different  AM processes), and then data utilized to manufacture required material parts. Different terms like “3D printing” and “rapid prototyping” are also casually used to describe Additive manufacturing, but each one is a subset of additive manufacturing. Hence in the simple sense, Additive manufacturing te...