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Get to grips with 3D printing and learn to model designs using Blender

About This Book
  • From the author who brought you the first practical look at 3D printing with 3D Printing Blueprints
  • Get a comprehensive coverage of the prototyping techniques you need to know to start printing your own 3D designs
  • Rekindle your mathematical genius to design personalized objects for complex puzzles
Who This Book Is For

If youre new to the world of 3D printing, this is the book for you. Some basic knowledge of Blender and geometry would be helpful, but is not necessary.

What You Will Learn
  • Get to know about the different types of 3D printers and their limitations
  • See how Y, H, and T shapes illustrate different ideas of successful 3D design for home 3D printers
  • Set up and configure Blender to model a file for 3D printing
  • Understand material characteristics, printing specifications, tolerances, and design tips
  • Work through the techniques of editing complex meshes, smoothing, combining shapes, and exporting them into STL files for printing
  • Break down complex geometries into multiple simple shapes and model them in layers using Blender
  • Design, manipulate, and export 3D models for 3D printing with Blender
  • Master the art of creating meshes, scaling, subdivision, and adding detail with the Boolean modifier as well as sculpting a custom shape
  • Cut a model into small pieces and understand how to design complex interlocking joints that form a part of a jigsaw puzzle
In Detail

3D printing has revolutionized the way that global industries conceptualize and design products for mass consumption. Considered as the next trillion-dollar business, every industry is in the race to equip its personnel with techniques to prototype and simplify complex manufacturing process. This book will take you through some simple to complex and effective principles of designing 3D printed objects using Blender.

There is a comprehensive coverage of projects such as a 3D print-ready octopus pencil holder, which will teach you how to add basic geometric shapes, and use techniques such as extruding and subdividing to transform these shapes into complex meshes. Furthermore, youll learn to use various techniques to derive measurements for an object, model these objects using Blender, organize the parts into layers, and later combine them to create the desired object with the help of a 3D printable SD card holder ring design project. The final project will help you master the techniques of designing simple to complex puzzles models for 3D printing.

Through the course of the book, well explore various robust sculpting methods supported by Blender to create objects. Youll move, rotate, and scale the object, and manipulate the view. Youll edit objects with actions such as bends or curves, similar to drawing or building up a clay structure of different shapes and sizes. By the end of the book, you will have gained thorough practical hands-on experience to be able to create a real-world 3D printable object of your choice.

Style and approach

This is a hands-on guide to the world of 3D printing. With the help of simple to complex projects, youll learn various techniques to design 3D printable objects using Blender.

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3D Printing Designs: Fun and Functional Projects

3D Printing Designs: Fun and Functional Projects

Copyright 2016 Packt Publishing

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First published: June 2016

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Credits

Author

Joe Larson

Reviewer

Marcus Ritland

Commissioning Editor

Edward Gordon

Acquisition Editor

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Content Development Editor

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Technical Editor

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Copy Editor

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Graphics

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Production Coordinator

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Cover Work

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About the Author

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.

About the Reviewer

Marcus Ritland is a designer and 3D printing consultant in his small business, Denali 3D Design. Since 2008, he has been providing 3D modeling and 3D printing services as well as moderating the SketchUcation 3D printing forum (http://sketchucation.com/).

He has volunteered at a local makerspace, teaching SketchUp classes and leading 3D printing meetups. As an author of 3D Printing with SketchUp, he is currently on a quest to eliminate design-for-3D printing illiteracy.

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Preface

3D printers have arrived! Complex and beautiful objects are available at the touch of a button in our schools, libraries, or even our homes. Whether or not you have a 3D printer, learning how they work and how to design for them is the best way to be a part of this new industrial age. And the best part is it doesn't cost a penny to learn to design for them.

This book will teach you the things you need to know about 3D printers. Then, you will use the robust and free software, Blender, to follow step-by-step instructions through several planned projects. You will gain the tools, techniques, and skills you need to make your own projects that you can print by yourself on a 3D printer near you and share with others online to print around the world.

What this book covers

, 3D Printing Basics , will help you understand 3D printing basics, types of 3D printing, and how FFF printers work.

, Beginning Blender , will introduce Blender, how to set it up, and some basic and mid-level functionality. Knowing the content of this chapter will get you over Blender's infamous learning curve and provide the basic knowledge and reference necessary for following along with future projects.

, The Octopus Pencil Holder , building this simple project, an octopus pencil holder, will involve simple selection techniques and modification commands of basic shapes in Blender's Edit mode, and applying modifiers to soften and combine shapes. This technique alone can be used to make an unlimited number of cool things once mastered.

, Measuring Basics , mentions how it is very important that accurate measurements must be made when planning and applied to the modeling of a 3D object. In this chapter, we deal with different techniques of taking measurements: measuring with a ruler or calipers, the grid paper trace method, and 3D scanning.

, An SD Card Holder Ring , walks you through the process of making a cool 3D printed projectan SD card holder.

, Sculpting the Face of the Sun , teaches you how to use the sculpting tools in Blender to transform a basic shape into a complicated design.

, Cutting a 3D Jigsaw Puzzle , further modifies the model created in the previous chapter by creating the puzzle pieces and then applying their shape that to the sculpted model model to create the individual pieces, combining two of Blender's powerful editing styles to create a finished product.

What you need for this book

Blender has these minimum system requirements:

  • A 32-bit dual-core 2-GHz CPU with SSE2 support
  • 2 GB of RAM
  • A 24-bit 1280768 display
  • A mouse or trackpad
  • OpenGL 2.1 compatible graphics with 512 MB of RAM
Who this book is for

This book is for anyone with an interest in 3D printing and some basic computer skills. Whether you own a 3D printer or not, you can design for them. You will need Blender, a free 3D tool, and this book. With a little creativity, one day you'll hold in your hands something designed with a computer.

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