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3D Printing Designs: Design an SD Card Holder

By : Joe Larson
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3D Printing Designs: Design an SD Card Holder

By: Joe Larson

Overview of this book

Want to model a 3D printed prototype of an object that needs to be replaced or broken? This book will teach you how to accurately measure objects in the real world with a few basic measuring techniques and how to create an object for 3D printing around the objects measured. In this book, you'll learn to identify basic shapes from a given object, use Vernier and Digital calipers and grid paper tracing techniques to derive measurements for the objects. With the help of measurements, you'll see to model these objects using Blender, organize the parts into layers, and later combine them to create the desired object, which in this book is a 3D printable SD card holder ring that fits your finger.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Downloading and installing Blender


The first thing that needs to be done is downloading and installing Bender. Follow these steps:

  1. On your PC or Mac, open a your web browser and go to http://www.blender.org.

  2. Locate the Blender download button on the main page for the latest version of Blender and click on it:

  3. Scroll down and find Download under Blender and click on it. If you're on Windows and unsure, just choose the MSI package option.

  4. When the installer finishes downloading, run it.

  5. Follow the prompts to install Blender.

  6. When the installer is finished, run Blender. Click anywhere to close the splash screen.

Blender is now installed and ready to use.