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3D Printing Designs: Fun and Functional Projects

By : Joe Larson
Book Image

3D Printing Designs: Fun and Functional Projects

By: Joe Larson

Overview of this book

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, you’ll 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, we'll explore various robust sculpting methods supported by Blender to create objects. You’ll move, rotate, and scale the object, and manipulate the view. You’ll 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.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
3D Printing Designs: Fun and Functional Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In your grandparents' or parents' garage, they might have had a jigsaw and tools that they made cute wooden puzzles with—clunky shapes that vaguely resembled an elephant or truck. But nowadays, we can do so much more with 3D printing. It's not difficult to see how this project can be applied to a puzzle of any shape, just as complex or robust as a loved one's favorite thing:

Blender's unique collection of tools seems eclectic to some, but in the end, they enable robust interactions that result in us being able to make projects such as this puzzle without having to switch tools to finish. Models can be sculpted and then, without switching tools, combined with rigid shapes to create complex but useful and fun objects for 3D printing. This project also taught you about tolerances in 3D-printed parts and how they can be adjusted to make parts that interact with each other. While different 3D printers may require different tolerances, the skills learned in this chapter can be applied to...