Little by little it stays the idea of the Windows 8.1 Start Menu ButtonSince this element, despite being very important to those who have missed it since Windows XP, the interest of many people is trying to know the new features that Microsoft has proposed in this operating system and in its new update.
We want to recommend that you review the article where we mentioned 10 of the most important features of Windows 8.1, which according to Microsoft, we will not stop using them at any time thanks to the benefits it offers to its users. Among them, it is worth highlighting a very important one, which refers to 3D printing; but Why is this feature so important? Simply because Microsoft has placed it as a native feature, which means that additional drivers should not be required when installing a 3D printer.
Download a free 3D printing app for Windows 8.1
If you buy a 3D printer, it could be said that the manufacturer would have to provide you with the respective management software for your device. But if this situation does not occur, it is not to worry, since Microsoft has placed the drivers to work natively and thus, the device is easily recognized; What about the software? Well at the same you can easily download it from the Windows Store.
Once you have started Windows 8.1, you should only go to the Windows Store tile, placing in the search space the name of the application that Microsoft offers completely free, which is 3D Builder.
Once you have located it, you just have to clic on the Install button and wait a little while until it is downloaded and incorporate into the operating system; After a short time you will receive the message that the tool has been installed correctly.
You only have to press the Windows key to go to the Start Screen of this operating system; You will be able to see that the 3D Builder tile is not present in it, so you will have to click on the small inverted arrow that is located towards the bottom left. With this operation, all the applications installed in the operating system will appear, and the one we have selected on this occasion must be chosen.
Running 3D Builder on Windows 8.1
Well, we could make a PIN in the application so that it place their respective tile on the Home Screen; at the moment, we just double-click it to run.
The interface is user-friendly, where we will be offered a large number of objects that we could choose from through their different categories.
If we click on one of them, it will automatically appear in 3D space, where we will have to place it in the place that we consider necessary.
To add other 3D objects, we just have to click with the right mouse button anywhere, with which two options will appear in the lower left, which will allow us:
- Add objects as files hosted on the hard drive.
- Add objects from the library we saw earlier.
We can add any amount of 3D objects, having to order them as we have projected.
At the top is a circle shaped like a compass (so to speak), where there are the different options to modify each of the 3D objects that we select; the functions are proposed as easy-to-recognize icons, with which we could:
- Scale to each object
- Rotate it at any angle.
- Move them to any position
In the lower part the options will appear each time we click with the right mouse button; among them, there is the option of Save to the scene and Print to the object that we have created. At that moment a sidebar will appear on the right, where we will have to choose the printing properties.
More information - The 10 best features you'll appreciate in Windows 8.1
Download - 3D Builder