Desktop Manufacturing Comparisons @Circadea

Laser CNC 3D-Printing Scanning Workflows

                                                                                                                     
Designs  Stl files
Scanning for Input
Turntable
Tripod For Device
3d Sitelist
3dCourse
Desktop Mfg
Ceramic 3d is grow exponentially.

Heat Cured Plastics and Ceramics
Printed Metal

Laser Engrave
CnC Route
Cnc Mill
3D Print


Materials Economy
                                                                                                                               


Glass
Scrap Wood
Cans
Trees
Cardboard
Paper

Dollar Store Items
Cutting Boards
Foam
Cardboard

Scrap Metal  Materials Selector



Welding
Plasma Cutting
Cut off
Drilling


CNC machining Job Shop
Emachineshop  2 weeks lead time
Emachineshop Linux Minerva
Osx wine


Viewer  Stp Step Files
AutoCAD, Fusion 360, CATIA, Solid Edge, NX, Creo, FreeCAD, TurboCAD

xometry Tools
Fusion 360
Free Cad Parametric

Sketchup
Free Cad Old
I have read that a number of SketchUp Pro users use FreeCAD for the
conversion of STL -> STEP.
I have sketchup downloaded (but not installed). If you post your file I'll install
 sketchup and export your file as a .dae (collada) file, which FreeCAD supports as an import type.
Sketchup TinkerCad
Best free Cad OSX
Linux box with free cad for file conversion.
Online Convertings STL to STEP
Online converters






3d Printing




Laser Cons
Smell
Maintenance
Limited to advertising and non functional parts?
Kitchen Gadgets
Personaliztion
QR codes


Laser Pros
Cheap Materials
Recycling


3d printing pros.
integrates with making difficult parts
multi materials

3d printing cons
lag time in materials
costly materials
need machine that can handle nylon
wheel of materials