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# 3D Printing Drone case

For 3D printing the drone case we are going to use

The 3D-printing process builds a three-dimensional object from a computer-aided design (CAD) model, usually by successively adding material layer by layer

In this 3D printing process the 3D printer heats the 3D printing material so for 3D printing material many different materials can be used for 3D printing, such as ABS plastic, PLA, polyamide (nylon), after the material is heated the printer adds 2D layer by layer till it creates a 3D model

For 3D printing we had two softwares, but we can use either of that so the two softwares were **Solidworks** and **Flashforge**.

Solidworks will look something like this

![](https://2337796245-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LiHGnU31k3UMwGKWEZa%2F-LjUO6M9TM0Kqax_Cjkm%2F-LjUT4mZHSt4IkEsISqT%2FSolidworks.jpg?alt=media\&token=d44127b9-7dee-4783-a552-364d6ce921ec)

and Flashforge will look something like this

![](https://2337796245-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LiHGnU31k3UMwGKWEZa%2F-LjUO6M9TM0Kqax_Cjkm%2F-LjUTXFKmixbr6Qby0EV%2FFlashforge.jpg?alt=media\&token=aaecac09-49d1-4065-a792-66490a3860f8)

After you make the 3D object you have to add the supports for the 3D printing objects, if we don't add support to the 3D object then the melted plastic will melt downwards which is called as overhang and that would ruin the 3D object, so that is why we add supports to the 3D object

We have to Save the file in .STL format which the 3D printer will be able to import and in the 3D printer we have to add the 3D printing filament so that it can melt the material to make the 3D object, after that is done we will start the 3D printing process and then it will look something like this

![3D printing the Drone canopy](https://2337796245-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LiHGnU31k3UMwGKWEZa%2F-LjUO6M9TM0Kqax_Cjkm%2F-LjUXrK5cqQedNrE6kq5%2FIMG_20190709_171310.jpg?alt=media\&token=85704d1f-97b9-4c84-9d1c-a92e2c9524d5)

After 3D printing is done we can snap and remove the supports which we had given to the 3D object.