My First Month with the MakerBot METHOD - GrabCAD Blog

As most of you know, the GrabCAD Marketing team received the MakerBot METHOD last month. I was really excited to start using it but I’ll admit, I’m a MakerBot newbie. Below, I share my experience and offer some tips so you (spoiler alert) enjoy the MakerBot as much as I did. Unboxing & Loading Materials Unboxing the printer was simple and quick to do. Even setting up the printer itself was easy. All I had to do was follow the onscreen prompts and load up the material. When loading up the printer materials into the machine, however, I didn’t know that there was some grey material that you had to purge FIRST, until you get to your actual material. Tip: You have to let this material run for about a minute or two until you get your material or support. MakerBot Software After the material was ready, all I had to do next was download the MakerBot software, which I was really happy about because it supports Mac. I simply made a MakerBot account and then linked my account to my printer. Next, I downloaded a few STLs from the GrabCAD Community and was able to print these models quickly […]