Love to see you getting into 3d printing, and that's a great choice!

My first experience of 3d printing was 2010 and I met up with a guy in Calgary off a WordPress forum who offered to show me around Calgary. He was a Solidworks expert and he got given an early 3d printer in exchange for feedback to the manufacturer. Weirdly instead of spools of filament it used sheets of thin plastic and each layer went down at once.