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A. 3D Printer and Modeling Resources
The information in this appendix is by no means complete. Thousands of websites
are dedicated to 3D printing, along with hundreds of topics and magazines and
enough software companies to fill a dozen pages. What I've done here is pull out
some of the ones that were most useful to me during the writing of this topic, as
well as resources that I believe will help point you in many more directions and
expand your own research.
Websites
• Official Printrbot Forum—Printrbot has its own Help site where users can
post questions and get help. If you've got a question about your Printrbot,
this is definitely the place to start: http://help.printrbot.com/ .
• Unofficial Printrbottalk.com Forum—The Printrbottalk.com Forum started
when Printrbot was raising funds via its Kickstarter program, and it has con-
tinued to be a great place for fans of Printrbot to gather and post photos, ask
questions, and more. There's a dedicated area just for the Printrbot Simple,
too: http://bit.ly/1c2XuyV .
• Fine-Tuning Your Printrbot Simple—A great forum discussion from prin-
trbottalk.com that offers some additional configuration for the Repetier soft-
ware, some slightly different than the official Printrbot documentation sug-
gests: http://bit.ly/15J7Gb7 .
• Additional 3D Forums—Here are links to some additional 3D forums:
• Soliforum— www.soliforum.com
• 3Dprinting-Forums— www.3dprinting-forums.com
• Make magazine 3DP Forum— http://bit.ly/1bNvXmE
• RepRap Forum— http://forums.reprap.org
• Shapeways—One of the larger online 3D printing services that will ship your
printed model to you. You can even set up a shop and sell items you've de-
signed: www.shapeways.com .
• Sculpteo—Another great online 3D printing service that will take your up-
loaded model, print it, and ship it to you. Also supports selling your creations:
www.sculpteo.com .