I use 3D printing in a number of ways:
For my landscape series I print out shapes that have been designed and manipulated in Rhino or Fusion 360. I use a Tinkerine 3D printer and it uses strictly PLA filament. This gives me consistency in my designs and predictability in their output; it also prints at a high resolution- though I do quite a lot of sanding to the plastic before I make molds. Once I have a collection of prototypes I can make rubber molds which I pour with microcrystalline wax to produce the object. From there I use the traditional lost-wax process to cast the shapes in Glass.
For my landscape series I print out shapes that have been designed and manipulated in Rhino or Fusion 360. I use a Tinkerine 3D printer and it uses strictly PLA filament. This gives me consistency in my designs and predictability in their output; it also prints at a high resolution- though I do quite a lot of sanding to the plastic before I make molds. Once I have a collection of prototypes I can make rubber molds which I pour with microcrystalline wax to produce the object. From there I use the traditional lost-wax process to cast the shapes in Glass.
I also use 3D printing to experiment with simple shapes. I use this way of working to produce the geometric shapes in my botanical series.
