/print3d, idea to a printable part for a Bambu X2D or P2S

print3d below is the print3d command line. When you have the print3d MCP tools, use those of the same names instead: they return the plate preview and overlays as images, and the host can ask the user before each one that writes. A job's files live in the report's job_dir, written below as jobs/<slug>.

idea / photo / text  →  model.py (Blender)  →  mesh  →  DFM + printability
        │                    ↑                         + likeness to the photo
    spec.json                └────────  advice: what to fix ───┘
                                              │
                                        slice → .3mf → user prints from Studio

Nothing here reaches the printer. The last step is a sentence handing the user a .3mf. Printing is theirs to do in Studio, with the plate in front of them.

1. Read the brief

Before writing a model for a new job, call the MCP doctor tool or run print3d doctor. Resolve any missing or unavailable Blender or Bambu Studio dependency first. Studio is ready when its executable is found; a failed version check is informational and does not block modelling. Windows and macOS read Studio metadata without launching it; Linux uses a best-effort help probe. Blender must pass its version probe. A null version means the probe could not identify a version; it does not mean the application is missing. Run the check again after changing the application paths or installing a dependency.

Size, text, colour, what the part has to do. Ask at most one question, and only when a missing number makes the part unprintable.

From a photo of an object: scaffold (step 2) for the slug, then work through references/from-photo.md before writing the model. It turns the photo into a spec.json of measured, given and assumed dimensions, and adds the likeness check that compares the model with the photo.