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3D Printing Designs: Fun and Functional Projects

By : Joe Larson
Book Image

3D Printing Designs: Fun and Functional Projects

By: Joe Larson

Overview of this book

3D printing has revolutionized the way that global industries conceptualize and design products for mass consumption. Considered as the next “trillion-dollar” business, every industry is in the race to equip its personnel with techniques to prototype and simplify complex manufacturing process. This book will take you through some simple to complex and effective principles of designing 3D printed objects using Blender. There is a comprehensive coverage of projects such as a 3D print-ready octopus pencil holder, which will teach you how to add basic geometric shapes, and use techniques such as extruding and subdividing to transform these shapes into complex meshes. Furthermore, you’ll learn to use various techniques to derive measurements for an object, model these objects using Blender, organize the parts into layers, and later combine them to create the desired object with the help of a 3D printable SD card holder ring design project. The final project will help you master the techniques of designing simple to complex puzzles models for 3D printing. Through the course of the book, we'll explore various robust sculpting methods supported by Blender to create objects. You’ll move, rotate, and scale the object, and manipulate the view. You’ll edit objects with actions such as bends or curves, similar to drawing or building up a clay structure of different shapes and sizes. By the end of the book, you will have gained thorough practical hands-on experience to be able to create a real-world 3D printable object of your choice.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
3D Printing Designs: Fun and Functional Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Importing the image into Blender


To follow along from this point, point your browser to http://thingiverse.com/thing:90754.

Now, find Ch10 Scanned Image.jpg, and right-click to save the image:

  1. Start Blender and, as usual, clear the scene (Ctrl + A + X) and save it to start a project.

  2. Give it an appropriate name in an appropriate directory, such as Ch10 Measuring and Drawer Guide.blend.

  3. Change the view to Top Ortho (Numpad 7, Numpad 5).

  4. In the Properties panel (N), locate the Background Images section, check the box next to it, expand it, and click on the Add Image button:

  5. Click on the Open button and navigate to where the scanned image of the stamped object is stored. Then, open the image to place it in the scene:

    Note

    The location and name of the scanned image may be different for you.

  6. The first thing to note is that if the previous steps are followed carefully, despite the grid paper in the image being a centimeter grid, at the default zoom, the grid lines seen are in millimeters. There are 10...