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
- Blender units
- defining / Blender to real life
C
- computerized numerical control (CNC)
- about / What defines 3D printing?
D
- 3D Jigsaw puzzle
- model, resizing / Resizing the model
- properties, scaling with / Scaling with properties
- puzzle piece, building / Building a puzzle piece
- implementing / Putting it all together
- Boolean modifier, troubleshooting / What if the Boolean modifier doesn't work?
- exporting / Exporting and printing
- printing / Exporting and printing
- 3D printing
- defining / What is 3D printing?, What defines 3D printing?
- 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
- face of sun, sculpting
- base object, creating / Creating the base object
- sculpt, setting up / Setting up sculpt
- face, drawing / Drawing the face
- edges, smoothing / Smoothing the edges
- nose and eyes, adding / Adding the nose and eyes
- rays, pulling out / Pulling out the rays
- details, sharpening / Sharpening the details
- 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?
I
- incremental saving
- defining / Incremental saving
L
- light polymerization
- about / What defines 3D printing?
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
- puzzle blank
- implementing / Putting it all together
- puzzle piece
- building / Building a puzzle piece
- basic shape, building / Building the basic shape
- blank, sizing / Sizing the puzzle piece blank
- shape, turning into object / Turning a shape into an object
- tolerance, adding / Adding some tolerance
S
- 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
- STL
- exporting / Exporting an STL
T
- 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 / Rotating 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