On Thursday, May 20th 2021 the IEEE FWCS Computer Society presented “How To Do 3D Modeling For Fun And Profit”.

So what would you make if you could? Just in case you had not noticed, 3D modeling and 3D printing. For just a little bit over $100 you can buy a 3D printer. Great, now you’ve got a 3D printer, what are you going to print? If your life is anything like mine, you have 100’s of things that you could print if only you knew how. Let’s start with drawer handles. How about knobs for devices in your car? Replacement parts for all of the things that have either been broken or lost?

Let’s agree that if you could 3D print things, then you would be busy doing so. However, there is that stumbling block of just exactly how to create the things that you want to print. Who’s got the software to do this and, even if we had it, who knows how to use it?

Your local IEEE Florida West Coast Section Computer Society hears your need and we’ve got just the solution for you. Join us for an online seminar in which we show you how to use free (!) software to model anything that you want. Once you’ve modeled the thing that you want to design, you can then save it to a file, download it to a 3D printer and ta-da! You have the thing that you designed. It really is that easy and we’ll show you how to do it from start to finish.

A video of this seminar can be viewed here.

The seminar was presented by Dr. Jim Anderson.