Index
A
- additive manufacturing
- about / What defines 3D printing?
- axis locking
- about / Controlling transformations
B
- Blender
- using / Why Blender?, The price is right
- downloading / Downloading and installing Blender
- installing / Downloading and installing Blender
- URL / Downloading and installing Blender
- image, importing into / Importing the image into Blender
- references / Importing the image into Blender
- reference pictures, increasing / Increasing reference pictures
- Blender units
- defining / Blender to real life
C
- calipers
- using / Measuring with calipers
- about / Measuring with calipers
- manual caliper / Manual or Vernier calipers
- Vernier caliper / Manual or Vernier calipers
- digital calipers / Digital calipers
- computerized numerical control (CNC)
- about / What defines 3D printing?
D
- 3D printing
- defining / What is 3D printing?, What defines 3D printing?
- 3D scanning
- about / 3D scanning
- default view, Blender
- defining / The default view
- 3D View / The 3D View
- 3D cursor / The 3D cursor
E
- Edit mode
- about / The Edit mode
- object parts / Parts of objects
F
- FFF 3D printers
- designing for / What to design for?
- FFF design considerations
- about / FFF design considerations
- overhangs and supports / Overhangs and supports
- snowman, building / Supportless 3D printing
- sand castle, building / Supportless 3D printing
- Y, gentle overhangs / Y – gentle overhangs
- H, bridging / H – bridging
- T, orientation / T – orientation
- wall thickness / Wall thickness
- holes, in models / Holes in models
- FFF printers
- working / How do FFF printers work?
- Fused filament fabrication (FFF)
- about / What defines 3D printing?
G
- grid paper trace
- about / Grid paper trace method
- suitable objects / Suitable objects
- object preparation / Object preparation
I
- incremental saving
- defining / Incremental saving
L
- light polymerization
- about / What defines 3D printing?
M
- measurement
- with calipers / Measuring with calipers
- measurements
- obtaining / Taking measurements
- modifiers
- defining / Extra credit
O
- object
- transforming / Transforming the object
- objects
- duplicating / Duplicating objects
- object selection
- defining / Object selection
- Shift select / Shift select
- Border select / Border select
- Circle select / Circle select
P
- panels
- about / The default view
- powder bed
- about / What defines 3D printing?
- print
- building / The anatomy of a print
R
- ring
- modeling / Modeling the ring
- finger, modeling / Modeling the finger
- placing, on floor / Putting the ring on the floor
- completing / Finishing the ring
- ruler
- using / Measuring with a ruler
S
- SD card holder
- adding / Adding an SD card holder
- organizing, by layers / Organizing by layers
- virtual SD card, creating / Creating a virtual SD card
- SD holder
- and ring, defining / Putting it all together
- settings, Blender
- defining / The best settings
- scroll-wheel mouse and number pad / A scroll-wheel mouse and number pad
- laptop, with touch pad / A laptop with a touch pad and no number pad
- object creation / Object creation
- STereoLithography (STL)
- about / Exporting an STL, Making a test print
- STL
- exporting / Exporting an STL
T
- test print
- creating / Making a test print
- test ring
- resizing / Resizing the test ring
- transformations
- controlling / Controlling transformations
- view, controlling / Controlling the view
- axis locking / Axis locking
- precise transformation / Precise transformation
- origin manipulation / Origin manipulation
V
- view
- navigating / Navigating the view
- rotating / Navigating the view
- jumping, to rotation / Jumping to rotation
- panning / Panning the view
- zooming / Zooming the view
- orthographic, versus perspective view / Orthographic versus perspective view
- wireframe / Wireframe and solid view
- solid view / Wireframe and solid view