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3D Printing Designs: Octopus Pencil Holder

By : Joe Larson
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3D Printing Designs: Octopus Pencil Holder

By: Joe Larson

Overview of this book

This book will cover the very basic but essential techniques you need to model an organic and functional object for 3D printing using Blender. Starting with pen and paper and then moving on to the computer, you will create your first project in Blender, add basic geometric shapes, and use techniques such as extruding and subdividing to transform these shapes into complex meshes. You will learn how modifiers can automatically refine the shape further and combine multiple shapes into a single 3D printable model. By the end of the book, you will have gained enough practical hands-on experience to be able to create a 3D printable object of your choice, which in this case is a 3D print-ready octopus pencil holder.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Blender to real life


By default, Blender units don't make any attempt to relate to real-life measurements. However, after exporting a mesh, the slicing software will interpret the Blender units as millimeters, generally. So, it is good to think of Blender units as millimeters. This means that default objects in Blender are 2 mm across when they're added, which is fairly small.

Remember that one blender unit will be 1 mm when the file is used to 3D print an object.