Courses & training
3D printing training for companies
The course takes place where the printing happens: at your machine, with your parts. Three formats from two hours to a full day, with a price, so you can compare scope and cost before the first call.
Who it is for
- Businesses with a printer that is not being used to its potential
- Workshops and maintenance teams producing parts themselves
- Development teams printing in house who want more out of it
- Businesses about to buy and looking for the right machine
Content
Your machine and its quirks
I go to the machine standing in your building: operation, maintenance, typical failure patterns, limits. If no machine is there yet, this becomes purchase advice based on what you want to make with it.
A close look at your parts
I take example parts from your production and work through how they can be optimised for printing: orientation, support strategy, where material can be saved and where it belongs. Deliberately not a CAD course: this is about the machine and the process.
The slicer down to expert level
From the basic settings to the parameters nobody else touches. Which value has which effect, and which combination solves a problem instead of creating a new one.
Materials for your application
Which materials suit your parts, where the differences lie, and what the choice means for production, post-processing and service life.
Three formats, three prices.
For most companies the half-day course is the right choice: two hours are usually too tight for your own failure patterns, and a full day only pays off once several parts, print profiles or materials come together. The content builds up, the larger format contains the smaller one. All prices are per course, not per person.
3D printing fundamentals
approx. 2 hours · up to 5 people included
CHF 490
Guide price per course
For teams starting out, or bringing existing knowledge onto one level. Afterwards the whole team shares the same basis.
Understanding the machine
- How an FDM printer is built and how it works
- Filaments and their properties: PLA, PETG, ABS and ASA, TPU
- What works well and what does not
Getting a model ready to print
- Basic slicer settings
- Part orientation, infill, wall thickness, layer height
- Where support is needed and where it is not
Reliable in daily use
- Recognising the common failure patterns
- What makes a print run through reliably
Two hours are for a shared basic understanding, safe operation and getting one model cleanly ready to print. Design, print profiles and systematic fault finding belong in the half-day course. I match the exact content to the machines you have and to where the participants stand.
3D printing in practice
approx. 4 hours · up to 5 people included
CHF 890
Guide price per course
For companies already printing who want more out of the same machine. This is the course I recommend most often.
Designing for print
- Wall thickness, overhangs and bridges
- Tolerances and fits
- Layer direction and mechanical load
- What the material means for the design
Slicing and process
- Layer height, line width, wall structure and infill
- Temperatures, cooling, speed and acceleration
- Support strategies and part orientation
- Weighing quality, strength and print time against each other
Troubleshooting instead of trial and error
- Warping, poor layer adhesion, stringing
- Under- and over-extrusion, poor surfaces
- First-layer problems, layer shifts
- Searching systematically instead of trying settings at random
This is not a CAD course: it is about the principles that make a part printable, not about operating design software. You can send failed prints, photos or documented cases in advance and I will build them into the course.
3D printing intensive
up to 7 hours, breaks not counted · up to 5 people included
CHF 1490
Guide price per course
Everything from the half-day course, with considerably more time on your own parts and your own printing setup.
In addition, as needed
- Materials in depth, including technical filaments
- Going through existing print profiles and improving them
- Analysing your parts: orientation, support strategy, strength
- Calibration and reproducible results
- Taking concrete problem cases apart together
All amounts without VAT, because none applies: Printerking is not liable for VAT. What is written here is what appears on the invoice.
What you take away
- A machine your team operates confidently and maintains properly
- Concrete improvements to your own example parts
- Slicer settings for your parts, not for sample models
What is added, and what is already included.
Larger groups
The prices above cover up to five participants. Above that a surcharge applies, because more people need more attention.
- up to 5 people
- included
- 6 to 7 people
- + CHF 150
- 8 to 10 people
- + CHF 300
- 11 to 12 people
- + CHF 450
- more than 12 people
- on request
From about ten participants I recommend splitting the course over two dates. On a single machine nobody gets their hands on it otherwise.
Travel
My central location in Root LU puts Lucerne, Zug, Zurich and Aargau within easy reach; I am glad to come further afield as well. The flat rate follows the distance from Root LU and covers travel time and vehicle costs for the journey there and back.
- up to 10 km
- CHF 60
- 11 to 20 km
- CHF 110
- 21 to 30 km
- CHF 160
- 31 to 40 km
- CHF 210
- 41 to 50 km
- CHF 260
- over 50 km
- on request
Incidental costs such as parking are not included; I agree them with you beforehand. Over a longer distance the half or full day tends to be worth more, because the travel stays the same and spreads over more hours.
The preparation is in the price
For the half-day and the full-day course I look at what you work with beforehand:
- Which printers you have
- Which slicer you use
- Which materials and print profiles are in use
- What you print for, and what goes wrong doing it
- The questions your people bring along
That is the difference between a course about 3D printing and a course about your 3D printing.
Something else?
The building blocks can be put together differently. People ask for, among other things:
- Creality Print, OrcaSlicer, Bambu Studio or PrusaSlicer in detail
- Materials and technical filaments
- Print defects and systematic fault finding
- Maintenance and calibration
- Designing for print
- Getting started with 3D printing in the workshop
Write down what your team should be able to do, and I will put the course together accordingly.
What the guide prices mean
The figures above are what you can budget with. Only three things shift them, and all three are on this page: scope, group size and distance. Write a line about which machine you have, how many people are taking part and what the team should be able to do afterwards, and a binding quote comes back with price, travel and schedule. If something comes up: cancelling up to seven days before the date is free of charge, after that half the fee applies, and the full fee if nobody attends. If I have to cancel, you get an alternative date or a full refund.
Who will be standing in front of your team
I teach 3D printing at FabLab Zug, to groups of every age and every level of prior knowledge. Before that I ran public courses at Bibliothek Zug for around two years. The Google profile holds 12 reviews averaging 5.0.
I am looking forward to the training with your team.
Better parts from the same machine.
Which of the three formats fits, and what it comes to with travel and group size, is set out above. Write a line about which machine you have and what you plan to do with it, and a concrete proposal comes back.
- Duration
- 2, 4 or 7 hours
- Location
- At your site
- Group
- Up to 5 people included
- Guide price
- CHF 490, 890 or 1490