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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)

What to design for?


It is the best practice to always design towards the strengths and weaknesses of the medium you'll be using. The projects in this series of books will focus on designing for FFF 3D printers, because they're inexpensive and more readily available than the others, and the parts made with FFF 3D printers are suitable for a wide variety of functional uses. Also, many of the techniques for FFF design transfer to the other types of 3D printing. But because FFF 3D printers have limitations, there will be some things you need to know first.