so you're looking to improve your blender 3d printing design skills through a couple of
exercises well these are the exercises that i wish i could have set myself right at the beginning
and not only that but i wanted to tell you both which videos you have to watch and how i approach
teaching these exact same skills over on maker tales academy where i have my paid course of how
to use blender for 3d printing so very quickly let me just tell you them so you don't have to skip
through this we have a usb holder a pencil pot then go and edit some stls then create yourself a
desk storage unit and a secret shelf those are my top five to jump in and get started with now let's
go through each one of them letting you know which videos and how i approach them over maker tales
academy so kicking things off we're gonna start with the pencil pot and the usb holder because
they're both very fundamental designs now i say this because it really covers the fundamentals of
blender covers the understanding of mesh extrusion insets precision snapping and all that so the
videos that you want to go through are videos 1 to 19 of my precision course here on youtube
it will take about four hours of full video length itself over on maker tails academy it's about one
hour and 20 minutes and you're learning throughout the entire time while actually doing the projects
you're gonna have to go through all one to 19 videos first without making anything
before you're able to tackle these two projects however video 19 of the free series is actually
a usb holder from there i would then encourage you to go and just edit some stls keep it simple
grab an stl and do a small little change to it now i have that both in the maker tales academy
and this is a free video here on youtube free video about six minutes long over on maker tales
academy we stretch it out a little bit more we go to 22 minutes as we cover a lot more while we do
little tweaks to this desk hook and really truly understand what is needed for 3d printing when
we're working with this then we're going to get a little bit more complicated with the desk storage
unit now over at maker tales academy it's a full in-depth guide about 41 minutes in length but i
think you've already got the knowledge between videos 1 and 19 to actually be able to pull this
off now it's going to be a little bit trickier because you're going to be working with multiple
objects here and it's got a lot to do with working with mesh in its rawest form but it's a great
challenge to take on and then lastly is the secret shelf the secret shelf is brilliant because when
it comes to 3d printing we're dealing with 3d printing tolerances all the time and the fact
that this needs to slide in and out smoothly and all the little intricacies of how exactly you're
going to screw this to the wall how exactly is the print orientation of this going to be it's a
brilliant project to really take on over in maker tales academy it's about 37 minutes in length
but for free i would tell you to go through videos 20 to 24 which is going to be about an hour and 12
minutes of more information to take on before i would advise going into the secret self project
but once you've covered that i would say you're at a really nice stable space to then take on the
more advanced projects over in maker tales academy just go and scroll down you'll see them there
or you can carry on the free course where i go and cover some advanced arraying as well as
some modifier stacking and a lot more from there there's many other projects you can go and take on
and i would really advise to pretty much go to any stl website see a design that you like and then
try and recreate it a huge thank you to my patrons you guys are absolutely awesome and without you i
truly would not have been able to make maker tales a big thank you to my vip makers jem oscarnak and
david fernandez and if you're enjoying what i'm making here i would love to have your support too
if you think i deserve it thanks for watching keep making and let the quest continue