3D printing blueprints : design successful models for home 3D printing, using a Makerbot or other 3D printers / Joe Larson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larson, Joe, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blender (Computer file).

Three-dimensional printing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [England] ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Larson Joe: Joe Larson, known online as "the 3D Printing Professor, " is one part artist, one part mathematician, one part teacher, and one part technologist. It all started in his youth, doing BASIC programming and low-resolution digital art on a Commodore 64. As technology progressed, so did Joe's dabbling, eventually taking him to 3D modeling while in high school and college, and he momentarily pursued a degree in computer animation. He abandoned that and instead became a math teacher, and then moved to software development for 10 years before returning to education, teaching technology in college. When Joe first heard about 3D printing, it took root in his mind, and he went back to dust off his 3D modeling skills. In 2012, he won a Makerbot Replicator 3D printer in the Tinkercad/Makerbot Chess Challenge, with a chess set that assembles into a robot. Since then, his designs on Thingiverse have been featured on Thingiverse, Gizmodo, Shapeways, Makezine, and other places. He currently produces weekly videos about design for 3D printing on his YouTube channel, http: //www. youtube. com/user/mrjoesays.

Summary:

MakerBot Projects Blueprints is a project-based book, with each chapter taking you through the creation of an awesome stand-alone project. MakerBot Project Blueprints is for anyone with an interest in the 3D printing revolution and the slightest bit of computer skills. Whether you own a 3D printer or not you can design for them. All it takes is Blender, a free 3D modeling tool, this book and a little creativity and someday you'll be able to hold something you designed in the computer in your hands.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Design Tools and Basics

Design basics

Working of 3D printing

Building for supportless prints

Designing for dual extruders

Designing supportless - overhangs and bridges

Branching out with overhangs

Building bridges

Choosing a modelling tool

Installing Blender

Getting acquainted with Blender

The 3D view panel

The outliner panel

The properties panel

The info panel

The timeline panel

Proper stance

Blender customization

Setting up for Mac OSX

General Blender tips

Suggested shortcuts

The blueprints

Summary

Chapter 2: Mini Mug

Getting started

Creating the first shape

Creating a save point

Adjusting the view

Adding a handle

Shaping the handle

Smoothing the rough edges

Shaping the body of the mug

Joining the shapes

Flattening the bottom

Exporting for print

Extra credit

Chapter 3: Face Illusion Vase

Getting a profile

Tracing the silhouette

Creating the pot from the line

Using Solidify to make walls

Making a solid base

Printing the vase

Chapter 4: SD Card Holder Ring

Taking measurements

Modelling the finger

Putting the ring on the floor

Making a test ring

Resizing the test ring

Adding an SD card holder

Adding the SD holder to the ring

Chapter 5: Modular Robot Toy

Making the connector

Splitting the connector

Building a printable peg

Putting a hole in our pocket

Constructing a robot

Engineering the body

Creating the torso

Making an arm

Shaping the leg

Forming the head

Assembling the parts to print

Printing and assembly

Summary.

Chapter 6: D6 Spinner

Extracting the spring

Starting the project

Modeling the spring

Defining the boundaries

Building the spinner

Extending Blender with gears

Adding a gear to the spinner

Spinning on a peg

Adding the numbers

Building a rack

Adding the trigger

Docking the spring

Modeling the case - lid

Modeling the case - bottom

Preparing for print

Chapter 7: Teddy Bear Figurine

Making a stick figure

Putting the skin on the bones

Smoothing the skin

Adjusting for the third dimension

Making an armature

Drawing the details

Simplifying the model

Fixing the armature weights

Posing the bear

Inspecting before print

Chapter 8: Repairing Bad Models

Downloading a 3D scanned file

Trimming the fat

Orienting the scan

Trimming more fat

Making a flat base

Detail work on the back

Cleaning up bad geometry

Deleting an extra edge

Merging the problem away

Finding hidden points

Uncrossing the lines

Repeat until clean

Final cleanup

Making it a book end

Chapter 9: Stretchy Bracelet

Modeling the bracelet

Refining the shape

Printing the bracelet

Editing the settings in ReplicatorG

Editing the settings in MakerWare

Chapter 10: Measuring Tips and Tricks

Using a caliper

Grid paper method

Using the grid paper method with Blender

Index.

Notes:

"Community experience distilled"--Cover.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 15, 2016).

ISBN:

9781849697095

1849697094

OCLC:

857711528