Makerspace Guide

Pfeiffer Library hosts several pieces of equipment in the Makerspace that are available for use by students, staff, and faculty. These include:

• An Anycubic Photon Mono X2 Resin 3D Printer
• A Cricut Explore 3
• An HP DesignJet T230 Poster Printer
• A Cold-Press Laminator
• A Comb Document Binding Machine

Below you will find links to our how-to guides for getting started with each of these unique machines!

Resin printing is an exciting process, but there are a few things that you'll need to know before you dive in.  This guide is meant to provide a roadmap to success as you plan your first 3D print.

This guide contains the following:

• Repositories of 3D Designs
  Links to third-party collections of 3D designs.


• Tools for Creating Designs
  Links to design tools


• How to Guide
  A detailed walkthrough of the process of converting an STL file found or created using the above links into a physical object!


• Help
  General help and contact information for the library.

Some things to keep in mind as you consider what you would like to print:

• Pfeiffer Library owns and operates an Anycubic Mono X2 resin printer with a build volume of 7.74'' x 4.83'' x 7.87''. Designs that are larger than this will need to be divided into multiple prints and may incur additional costs.
• Although cured resin prints are safe to touch, resin-printed objects are not food or aquarium safe.
• Cured resin is relatively sturdy, but not quite as robust as the vacuum-formed plastic of Legos or action figures. 
• Designs that include a large number of thin parts are more likely to break -- both during the printing process and with handling afterwards.