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3D Printing with MatterControl
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In 3D Printing With MatterControl, Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron, the team behind Mastering 3D Printing, explain step-by-step how to use the MatterControl program, which allows you to control many common types of 3D printers (including both cartesian and delta style machines). 3D Printing With MatterControl can stand alone, or it can be a companion to Mastering 3D Printing to show you how to install, configure, and use best practices with your printer and printing software. The book includes both step by step software walkthroughs and case studies with typical 3D printed objects.

Whether you are a maker or a teacher of makers, 3D Printing with MatterControl will show you how to get the most out of your printer with the new standard for open source 3D printing software.

While there are books available on 3D printers, and even a few on software to make models for printers, there are few good sources covering the software that actually controls these printers. MatterControl is emerging as the leading open source software for 3D printers, and 3DPrinting With MatterControl covers this new standard in this brief book.What youll learn

3D model basics and slicing the model
Controlling the printer and using G code
Working with different materials and different printing situations
Using MatterControl plug-ins
Using your 3D printer in the classroom
Basic post-processing and troubleshooting

Who this book is for

Makers, students, teachers, hackerspace leaders, and anyone who wants step-by-step guidance on using MatterControl 3D printer software.

Table of ContentsPart 1: The 3D-Printing Ecosystem

Chapter 1. The Desktop 3D Printer

Chapter 2. What is MatterControl?

Chapter 3. Downloading and Configuring MatterControl

Part 2: The 3D-Printing Process

Chapter 4. Making a 3D Model

Chapter 5. Slicing a 3D Model

Chapter 6. Controlling your 3D Printer

Chapter 7. Material Considerations

Chapter 8. Special Cases

Part 3: Your Printer at Work

Chapter 9. File and Settings Management and the Touch Tablet

Chapter 10. Case Studies and Classroom Tips

Chapter 11. MatterControl Plugins

Chapter 12. Troubleshooting and Post-Processing

Appendix A. Supported Printer Manufacturers

Appendix B. Links

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Part 1
The 3D-Printing Ecosyste

The 3D-Printing Ecosystem

, we walk you through setting up and installing MatterControl so that you are ready for the 3D printing-workflow in the chapters that follow.

Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron 2015

Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron 3D Printing with MatterControl 10.1007/978-1-4842-1055-0_1

1. The Desktop 3D Printer

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Everyone talks about 3D printing, and from all the things you hear about it you would think it was going to solve just about every problem on the planet. The technology is very powerful and has many applications, but it is correspondingly a little challenging to learn to use well. This chapter gives you a little background about the hardware used in 3D printers. introduces the MatterControl software and discusses how it fits into the (still a little complicated) 3D-printing process. After that, we show you how to install the software, and then you should be off and running!

What Is 3D Printing?

3D printing is more formally known as additive manufacturing , since a print is created by making an object one layer at a time, adding on material until it is done. More traditional subtractive manufacturing starts off with a block of, say, wood or metal and takes material away as the part emerges. Both techniques shine in certain areas, but 3D printing is particularly useful for creating complex objects, making unique or custom items, or generating prototypes during the design phase of a project.

We could argue that 3D printing has been around for eons, since every sandbar is built from sand washed up on it. In terms of the lineage of current machines, though, Chuck Hull developed the first 3D printer that used a robotic mechanism to control a laser in about 1984, subsequently commercialized by 3D Systems about five years later. This technique, called stereolithography (abbreviated SLA), is still very much in use today, though very much evolved it uses a laser to solidify an object out of a vat of liquid resin layer by layer.

Since then, other technologies have evolved which can most usefully be organized around the feed stock they use. We give you a quick overview of printers that use powders and resin, which are mostly used in more expensive, commercial applications. Then we move on to consumer, desktop 3D printers that mostly use plastic filament on a spool as feed stock.

Commercial 3D Printers

Many commercial grade printers use one of a set of technologies that we call selective binding . These printers fuse a fine powder (such as gypsum, nylon, or even metal) either by using heat to sinter or melt the powder particles to fuse them together, or by depositing a binding agent (glue or solvent) to make layers of powder adhere to previous layers. Typically, the process starts by coating an empty build platform with a fine layer of the working powder. Printers have a print head consisting of either a lens and set of mirrors to focus a laser onto the surface of the powder or an inkjet for depositing binding agents onto it. This head fuses one layers worth of the material at a time, sometimes laying down ink to color the object at the same time. Then another thin layer is laid up on top of this and so on until the print is done. The user has to dig the finished print out of a bed of powder and vacuum off the excess powder. Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) printers work this way, as do direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) and most full-color printers. Printing metal is complex and for some technologies requires filling the build chamber with argon or nitrogen.

Another set of technologies uses selective solidification, in which a liquid is selectively turned into a solid, typically by using an ultraviolet light source to activate polymerization in liquid resin. SLA (described earlier) was the first example of this, and the Form 1+ printer is a lower-cost example now on the market. Digital light projection (DLP) printers use a projector to harden an entire layer at once. There are now several DLP printers aimed at the consumer market (a search for DLP 3D printer on your favorite search engine should give a list). However, the resin hardens when exposed to UV light and requires some care in handling. Managing this makes DLP printers harder to deal with than the ones we are about to describe.

Beyond the printers using plastic, some are being used to extrude food or concrete, and medical printers create tissue substrates for new organs. People have been deploying 3D printers in many applications and size scales. We focus on thermoplastics and similar substances in this book.

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We do not discuss commercial 3D printer technologies or go into the history of the current crop of consumer printers further in this book. If you would like more detail, check out Joans earlier book, Mastering 3D Printing (Apress, 2014), which takes a somewhat broader and more philosophical look at the industry than this one.

If you want to learn to maintain your hardware, Maintaining and Troubleshooting your 3D Printer by C. Bell (Apress, 2014) is an extremely detailed hands-on review of buying, building, setting up, and calibrating a printer. Bells book also discusses common firmware choices in detail.

Desktop 3D Printers

The MatterControl program is intended to control 3D printers using a technology variously called Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) or Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM). This type of machine melts a thermoplastic filament and extrudes it in a sticky, viscous form through a moving nozzle (and/or onto a moving build platform) one thin layer at a time. This extruder works like a high-tech hot glue gun. Layers typically are about 0.1 to 0.3 mm thick. Figure shows how the model looked in MatterControl, as a bit of a preview.)

Figure 1-1a.

The first of three shots of a print starting up on a printer. The round spool on the left is a one-kilogram roll of filament

Figure 1-1b.

Halfway through!

Figure 1-1c.

All finished

Figure 1-2.

How the model looked in MatterControl

Desktop 3D-Printer Hardware

The rest of this book focuses just on filament-based consumer 3D printers, the class that MatterControl supports. In this section we talk through some of their common features and typical designs. There are hundreds of consumer printers on the market, and we cannot be completely exhaustive. lists the printers currently formally supported by MatterControl.

Types of Filament-Based 3D Printers

Many different types of 3D printers use thermoplastic filament as the feedstock for 3D printing. Typically the filament comes in spools or cartridges; the printer in Figure discusses different materials and how they are used in printers, but for now the critical thing to know is that most printers work by precisely feeding filament into an extruder, which has a cold end that somehow moves the filament and a hot end that melts the filament.

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