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3D Printing for FIRST Teams (4 of 8)

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3D Printing for FIRST Teams Authors: Kari Karwedsky, PTC , and Colm Prendergast, Mentor for FIRST Robotics Competition Team 1965 3D Printing Work Flow The 3D Printing Work Flow that we use is composed of 7 steps.   Step 1: Design your part using PTC Creo. Step 2: Export Model from PTC Creo in .stl format. Step 3: Prepare Model and Generate g-code file (or equivalent) for the printer. Step 4: Prepare and Level the 3D Printer Build Plate. Step 5: Load printer filament. Step 6: Print Model. Step 7: Clean up printed model. In this blog post, we will look more closely at Step 2. 3D Printing Step 2: Export Model from PTC Creo in .stl format. Once your model is completed it needs to be exported from PTC Creo before it can be printed. There are several file formats that can be used for this and PTC Creo supports a wide variety of industry standard file formats. You should check the file formats supported by your printer software before exporting your model. We are using the STL format. ST...
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3D Printing for FIRST Teams (1 of 8)

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This is the first entry of an 8-part series. Each entry will be published Tuesday, so be sure to look each week for the next post! 3D Printing for FIRST Teams Authors: Kari Karwedsky, PTC , and Colm Prendergast, Mentor for FRC Team 1965 Many FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST Robotics Competition teams now have access to a 3D printer thanks to the generous donations of suppliers, but now what do you do with it? To get started, it’s probably a good idea to just tinker with it making something like a pencil cup to get a feel for how the printer works. But after that, how do you decide what makes sense to print for your robot? In this blog series we’ll review a robot design (by FRC Team 1965) that has several components that were 3D printed. This robot was specifically built to test the capabilities of 3D printing techniques. We will then walk through the 3D printing workflow used. We will discuss guidelines for deciding which parts might be good parts to consider 3D printing for your...
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FIRST Tech Challenge Social Media tips, tricks, and guidelines

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You’d be hard pressed to find someone these days who is NOT using at least one social media channel some of the time. It is one of the ways that modern humans are connecting with each other and sharing information. Businesses and organizations have also found it useful in sharing news and/or tips or tricks.  At FIRST Tech Challenge , we use social media to share information and resources, but most importantly to keep our community connected. We know lots of teams are using it, too, to share what they’re doing, to spread the word about FIRST , and to help promote their team.    To that end, we’ve pulled together a few recommendations to help you use your social media to achieve your team’s goals. This document, FTC Social Media Guidelines and Recommendations , is on the FTC Team Resources webpage under "Outreach and Marketing." In the guide, we briefly walk you through the process of planning out how you would like to use social media and also discuss ways to ensure suc...
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