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Simplifying 3D Printing with OpenSCAD

By : Colin Dow
5 (1)
Book Image

Simplifying 3D Printing with OpenSCAD

5 (1)
By: Colin Dow

Overview of this book

Want to bring your 3D designs to life with OpenSCAD, but don’t know where to start? Simplifying 3D Printing with OpenSCAD will teach you the key skills so that you can focus on your ideas, not troubleshooting your 3D printer. With the help of this book, you’ll build a solid foundation in 3D printing technology, the software used for designing your objects, and an analysis of the G-code produced by the 3D printer slicer software. You’ll also get to know your 3D printer and find out how to set up a printing job effortlessly — from configuring the parameters to build well-defined designs. Consider yourself a practical learner? Use real-world examples such as designing and printing a 3D name badge, model rocket, and laptop stand, to dive into the world of 3D printers build your skillset. By the end of this 3D printing book, you'll be ready to start designing and printing your own 3D printed products using OpenSCAD and being your ideas into reality.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: Exploring 3D Printing
5
Part 2: Learning OpenSCAD
9
Part 3: Projects
13
Part 4: The Future

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced external libraries to our designs. We were able to use the BOSL to design a desk drawer that slides on sliders under our desk. We also explored many of the libraries available from the OpenSCAD website, noting the design inspirations and strengths of the libraries.

We were able to then take the code written for our desk drawer design and implement it as an OpenSCAD library. As we saw, doing this greatly simplifies future designs. It allows us to design something rather complex by breaking it down into separate components.

With this chapter, we come to the end of the second part of this book, Learning OpenSCAD, where we explored OpenSCAD from basic to more complex concepts. We will use this knowledge in the third part of this book, Projects, as we use OpenSCAD to design and then bring our designs to life through 3D printing.