Hi everyone,

As in the title, I would start to learn how to design models for 3D printing and the basics about 3D printing, but I’m a total noob.

Do you have any suggestions about where to start?

Thanks everybody

  • madnificent@lemmy.world
    2·
    15 hours ago

    I have chosen all the different things in 3D printing than what you need. This is big picture.

    Most 3d prints are not food safe, but I guess that’s no big deal for decorative cakes. It is possible to make food safe prints.

    A resin printer will give smoother results for what I’ve seen but it is more messy with respect to material handling. This is probably what you should do in your case if you know you can handle less safe materials and ventilate correctly.

    The most common 3D printers deposit molten plastic. These are less messy but will yield less details. You can endlessly tweak and modify them.

    For modeling cartoon characters I would learn Blender.

    From Blender export to Cura for slicing into layers and commands the printer understand. Others exist, I doubt Cura does resin printers.

    • LukeSky@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      8 hours ago

      Ok, thank you very much. These prints will be used only to decore cakes and those cakes are only for photos and not meant to be eaten. So I will check Blender, do you have any suggestion from where to start (any YouTube channel, books, courses or guides)? And then Cura. Thank you again!