Costco on the East side

[Derrick Barnicoat]

All you need is a cad file. Most of the time you can just design what you need on the computer and render a cad file unless you are wanting to do a 3d copy of an object you already have. Also you can often find cad files of objects you might want to print online especially more common things. Most of the time though people just make custom cad files. I guess if you wanted to print something super intricate you might have to scan and duplicate a 3d object but most consumer grade 3d printers are not made to do the really intricate stuff anyway. The software to make cad files is pretty user friendly and not that hard to make really exact renderings of what you may want to print.