If you have just obtained your 3D printer and have an idea of something to print, you need some essential software tools for ...

and set about 3D printing a guitar neck in one piece. Designing a neck might sound difficult on the surface of it, but the Marz Guitar Designer plugin for FreeCAD helps make whipping one up a cinch.

FreeCAD started out a little shaky ... However, it is a great graphical alternative to OpenSCAD for 3D printing and even incorporates OpenSCAD if you don’t want to choose.