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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)

Why Blender?


With so many options for 3D modeling software, why would Blender, a software designed to make 3D animations, be the most popular choice?

The price is right

First things first: you don't have to pay for Blender. It is offered free of charge. If it works for you, you always have the option to donate, but Blender doesn't do anything to force this point. It is free now and forever.

Blender is comprehensive

While it's true that Blender is designed for animation because it covers everything from a blank canvas to a finished animation, it contains the ability to model objects, and it's one of the most robust suites of modeling tools anywhere. Learning Blender means that you may never need to learn another 3D modelling software.

It's getting better all the time

Blender is in constant development. If it doesn't have a feature you need, chances are that it may one day. Blender's developers are constantly responding to their audience.

But Blender isn't perfect

Despite Blender's advantages, it...