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What is 3DPrintModels project?

This project is aimed at providing instructions for machine builders and makers so that they can find accurate resources to build individual parts, to assemble, and to calibrate machines. Hence it aggregates resources for people with very limited resources (like Cuban makers) to build their own 3D printers with the minimal number of (cheap) components and material. Solutions cover a wide range of possibilities so that people can get started quickly according to eventual availability facing scarcity.

The key values of this project are:

• A list of tools needed in a Fablab, both generic and serving to specific purposes
• A curated selection of parts, instructions and resources compiled across open source projects needed to build digital manufacturing tools
• Parametric designs of each tool including:
  • Detailed geometry of single parts
  • Bill of materials (a.k.a BOM)
  • Parameters for satisfying a wide range of models and product families tested and used in practice to assemble real machines
  • Parameters to position machine tool at a given spatial configuration

Parametric libraries

The following part and tool libraries are powered by OpenSCAD:

• Extrusions library provides a common entry point for instantiating 3D models for well known extrusions (e.g. uprights), accessories, as well as an easy and flexible API to connect them altogether to form complex structures e.g. (machine) frames, ceilings.