PrintLab Classroom PrintLab Classroom 3D Printing Curriculum - Personal License
The PrintLab Personal License is an online learning platform for mastering 3D CAD and 3D printing. It offers a comprehensive course library, interactive tutorials, and real-world design challenges. Users can earn industry-recognized digital badges to showcase their skills. The license provides unlimited access for one year to all courses and certification opportunities.
- Access to comprehensive 3D design courses
- Earn verifiable digital badges
- One-year unlimited course access
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PrintLab Personal License
Empower Your Creativity and Build Industry-Recognized 3D Skills
The PrintLab Personal License is your gateway to mastering 3D CAD and 3D printing through an engaging online learning platform. Designed for designers and makers, PrintLab provides access to mini courses, guided projects, and open-ended challenges that inspire meaningful creation. Whether you're exploring the basics of 3D design in Tinkercad or Autodesk Fusion, tackling assistive technology projects, or participating in real-world design briefs, PrintLab empowers you to gain essential skills and industry-recognized credentials. The platform also offers shareable digital badges, perfect for showcasing your expertise on resumes and portfolios.
Key Features of the PrintLab Personal License:
- Comprehensive Course Library: Includes mini courses, design projects, and live challenges.
- Interactive Learning: Step-by-step tutorials, quizzes, and downloadable certificates.
- Industry-Recognized Credentials: Earn verifiable digital badges for completed coursework.
- Creative Freedom: Design solutions for real-world challenges with open-ended goals.
- 1-Year Access: Unlimited use of all courses and certification opportunities for one year.
Unlock Your Creative Potential with 3D CAD and Printing
Discover how to turn your creative ideas into reality using 3D CAD and 3D printing, while earning credentials that showcase your skills. Begin with foundational courses and advance through an extensive resource library filled with inspiring design opportunities.
- Build Foundational Skills: Learn 3D CAD, 3D printing, and design-thinking through step-by-step courses.
- Explore Diverse Applications: Gain insights into creating assistive technology, sustainable products, and more.
- Earn Industry-Recognized Credentials: Showcase your expertise with shareable digital badges.
Mini Courses: Build Your Foundation in 3D Design
Mini Courses are designed to help you master the basics of 3D CAD and 3D printing using Tinkercad or Fusion 360, both free for personal use. Through engaging video tutorials and step-by-step guides, you’ll develop technical skills and a solid understanding of design principles. Each course concludes with a quiz, and you can earn a downloadable certificate if you score over 70%.
- Learn the Basics: Gain foundational knowledge in 3D CAD and 3D printing.
- Earn Certificates: Validate your skills with certificates upon course completion.
- Flexible Tools: Use free and accessible software like Tinkercad and Fusion 360.
Projects: Guided Design for Meaningful Creations
Projects in PrintLab’s library take you through every step of the design process, focusing on real-world applications in assistive technology, STEM, and customized product design. These resources include detailed briefs, 3D design tutorials, and portfolio templates to help you document and showcase your creative journey. A blend of online and offline activities ensures a comprehensive and interactive learning experience.
- Hands-On Learning: Engage in practical projects that solve real-world problems.
- Structured Guidance: Follow detailed instructions and utilize helpful templates.
- Multidisciplinary Focus: Explore applications in assistive technology, STEM, and more.
Challenges: Real-World Competitions with Creative Freedom
PrintLab’s Challenges offer an exciting opportunity to address real-world problems with 3D printing. These global competitions, like the yearly Make:able assistive technology challenge, feature broad, open-ended briefs that inspire innovation and ingenuity. With complete freedom in product design and creation, participants can showcase their skills and compete for prizes.
- Creative Independence: Design your own solutions with no creative limitations.
- Global Recognition: Participate in competitions and gain visibility for your work.
- Exciting Opportunities: Compete for prizes and tackle real-world challenges.
PrintLab 3D Printing Certification Program
Earn recognized credentials in 3D CAD, 3D printing, and design innovation through PrintLab's comprehensive, tiered certification program. By submitting your work at each level, you can achieve open digital badges that are verifiable, shareable, and perfect for showcasing your skills on resumes, portfolios, and social media. Progress from foundational knowledge to advanced design-thinking and problem-solving as you work through this structured learning pathway.
Key Certification Levels:
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Level 1: Certified Maker
Complete and submit certificates from four mini courses to demonstrate essential 3D CAD and 3D printing skills and earn the Certified Maker badge. -
Level 2: Certified Designer
Advance your expertise by completing a PrintLab project and submitting your portfolio, showcasing proficiency in design-thinking and technical activities. -
Level 3: Certified Innovator
Participate in a design challenge to create solutions for real-world problems, earning the Innovator badge and mastering the entire design-thinking process.
Level 1: Certified Maker
Begin your certification journey by earning the PrintLab Certified Maker badge. This level focuses on building a strong foundation in 3D CAD and 3D printing. Complete four mini courses and submit their certificates to showcase your essential skills and knowledge.
- Foundational Learning: Develop essential skills in 3D CAD and 3D printing.
- Certificate Submission: Complete four mini courses and submit proof of completion.
- Earn Recognition: Achieve the Certified Maker badge to highlight your expertise.
Level 2: Certified Designer
Elevate your skills and earn the PrintLab Certified Designer badge by demonstrating proficiency in design-thinking, 3D CAD, and 3D printing. This level involves completing a PrintLab project and submitting a detailed portfolio documenting your creative process and technical abilities.
- Advanced Skills: Focus on design-thinking and technical application.
- Portfolio Submission: Showcase your project work and creative process.
- Industry Credential: Earn the Certified Designer badge to stand out professionally.
Level 3: Certified Innovator
Achieve the highest level of certification with the PrintLab Certified Innovator badge. This capstone step challenges you to participate in a PrintLab design challenge, where you'll use the full design-thinking process to create solutions for real-world problems faced by individuals or organizations.
- Real-World Application: Solve practical problems through 3D design and printing.
- Comprehensive Process: Demonstrate mastery of the entire design-thinking process.
- Top-Tier Credential: Earn the Certified Innovator badge to showcase your expertise.
3D Printing Course, Projects and Challenges
3D printing is making huge waves across every industry sector - and we believe anyone can learn how to use this exciting technology to bring value to the world. PrintLab guides people through the full creative process to make their own unique products - from personalized homeware to architectural models, assistive technology, and many other solutions that benefit from the customization that 3D printing offers.
Build Foundational Knowledge and Technical Skills
Begin by selecting mini courses to build foundational knowledge and technical skills. Begin by selecting mini-courses to build foundational knowledge and technical skills. After learning about the 3D printing process and industry, take on our 3D design mini-courses to learn how to design your own 3D models from scratch. Our courses teach you how to use either Tinkercad (beginner) or Fusion 360 (intermediate) software - both options are completely free for education.
Projects to Guide You Through the Full Creative Process
Projects guide you through each stage of the design process to make specific types of products in the fields of assistive technology, customized product design, and STEM. They include a brief, background information, 3D design tutorials, portfolio templates, and instructions on implementing various design methods such as user interviews, brainstorms, idea sketches, product evaluations, and more.
Courses and Projects Will Prepare You For Open-Ended Design Challenges
Challenges are global design competitions (with prizes!) where you will solve a real-world problem with 3D printing. Challenge briefs are broad and open-ended, giving you complete freedom in both the product created and the design process undertaken. Our first challenge is Make:able - a yearly assistive technology design competition. Additional challenges will be launched in due course.
Design Method Toolkit
The Design Method Toolkit is designed to be used whilst working on projects or challenges. It provides you with a range of step-by-step problem-solving and design activities that can be used at each stage of the design process – whether it’s to research topics, generate ideas, design prototypes, evaluate solutions, or present work. Although PrintLab projects guide you in using a pre-defined set of design methods, you can adapt projects by selecting your own methods and design process. The toolkit can also be used to tackle PrintLab’s Make:able Challenge or challenges in your own day-to-day life.
License Options
Personal License: (1 Year Access)
PrintLab's Personal License is for individual hobbyists, makers, and professionals. It provides you with 1 personal account and all the content/features listed in the table below.
Teacher License: (1 Year Access)
PrintLab’s Teacher License is for individual teachers and STEM instructors. It provides you with 1 teacher account and all the content/features listed in the table below.
Site License: (1 Year Access)
PrintLab’s Site License is for schools, libraries, makerspaces, and STEM organizations. It includes up to 6 x teacher licenses - each of which consists of all the content/features listed in the table below. *All licenses expire exactly 1 year after the first license is activated.