Difficulties for using 3D printing in Schools

[ralphzoontjens]

1) If you are a teacher in a school working with 3D printing, what are the main difficulties for your students in using this tool?
Students at the design faculty I worked at were are well versed in 3D design, often a 3D printer is something students even invest in.
One of the reasons that they do is the difficulty in planning and reserving a printer at the faculty, especially when at the end of the semester there is a gold rush for having their prototypes printed at the faculty's high-end printer. Another task is to well advise and control the printability of prototypes, and the reasons why they are using the 3d printer.

2) if you are a teacher in a school working with 3D printing, what are the main difficulties for you to conduct your teaching program or classes?
Some of the 3D models I worked on were very advanced and required a lot of editing before being well printable that took much more time than planned.

[souza75]

3D printer just is a tool, so the course is more important for education.
Certainly, the printer must be easy-to-use and reliable.
Firstly we prefer to provide some DIY dismountable printer to help students to know how this tool works, then guide them how to use these tools.

[phongdw]

No school has enough money to invest in 3d printers

[3DPLUS]

I used to provide 3dprinter for some school in Vietnam. And the main key needed is SAFETY. So I chose the MINI PRINTER .


( in VN we call mayin3dmini ).

[HakuG]

Going to bring back this post because I'm curious. I built an online 3D Printing facility that allows anyone to start with 3D Printing without needing to buy a 3D Printer. Each student can be connected to a live stream of a 3D Printer. Is that something teachers would be interested in? I built the company to help people get started with 3D Printing.

-Harnek

[Chris889]

There are difficulties but everything can be overcome.

[Phill9001]

It is true, in 3D education there are a lot of difficulties