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This here 3D Warehouse thing, I tell ya, it’s somethin’ else. Heard folks talkin’ ’bout it down at the general store. Seems like it’s a place where you can find all sorts of, whatchamacallit, drawin’s of things. They say you can use ’em to make your own buildings, and all sorts of other models. Sounds mighty complicated to me, but the young’uns seem to love it. They make models and upload them to the 3D Warehouse. All models they made appear in My Content. I don’t know what My Content is.

I reckon it’s like a big ol’ library, but instead of books, it’s got these, uh, 3D models. And get this, they say you can even sell your own drawin’s, long as you ain’t just sellin’ the ones you got from this here Warehouse place by themselves. You gotta make somethin’ new with ’em, I guess. That is what the young people say.

Now, they got all kinds of stuff on there. I heard tell of a fella who found a model of a lift, a simple one, mind you, but it could be used in any of them buildin’ models. And he used it in his own project, somethin’ about a fancy house he was makin’. He downloaded it. I don’t know how to download. But the young’uns know how to do it.

• They say there’s even a lift that moves up and down, just like a real one!
• And you can even choose what floor you want it to go to. Sounds like magic to me!
• There is a video to show how to use it.

Then there’s somethin’ called a stair lift, for old folks, they say. Now that’s somethin’ I might could use! You can change how many steps it’s got, and how fast it goes. But they say you gotta fix the stairs yourself. Nothin’ in this life is easy, I suppose. Maybe one day I can use it.

And cars! They got models of car lifts, like the ones they use down at the garage. This one fella, he was talkin’ ’bout a Mohawk brand one, all fancy with its posts turned sideways and what not. Said it made it easier to get in and out of the cars. I don’t rightly know what he was talkin’ about, but it sounded important. Car lift is important for mechanic.

There’s even a platform lift. I think it’s for heavy things. It looks very strong. It can lift very heavy things.

This here 3D Warehouse, it’s a whole different world. It is a website of searchable. It’s a place where you can find just about anythin’, far as these models go. And from what I hear, it’s only gettin’ bigger. More and more folks are puttin’ their own drawin’s up there, sharin’ ’em with everyone else. The world is changing.

One more thing the young’uns was talkin’ about, somethin’ called “Z-hop.” Sounds like a dance move to me, but they say it’s how these 3D printer things work. Makes the, uh, the printy head thing go up a little bit, or maybe the bottom part go down. I don’t know. Don’t rightly understand it, but they say it helps with the printin’.

The extruders can lift. I think it is to avoid crossing outlines. I don’t know what it means. But if the extruders can’t avoid it, it will lift. There are also G-code Offsets and Z height adjustments. I don’t know what they are. But they are something about lift. There are some people talking about adding Z-lift on last layer retraction. It sounds like they are talking about how to make the lift better.

They can also start printing at height. But the Z axis should move first. They also want Z lift on long travel moves. It sounds very complicated. I can’t understand it. But the young’uns can understand it. They can use the 3D Warehouse to make many things. The young’uns are very smart. They can use the new things to make the world better.

Well, I reckon that’s about all I know about this 3D Warehouse. It’s a lot to take in, that’s for sure. But it’s interestin’ to hear about, even if I don’t understand half of it. The world keeps on changin’, and I guess we just gotta try to keep up, best we can. It is good for the young’uns to learn new things.

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