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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)

Downloading and installing Blender


The first thing that needs to be done is downloading and installing Bender. Follow these steps:

  1. On your PC or Mac, open a your web browser and go to http://www.blender.org.

  2. Locate the Blender download button on the main page for the latest version of Blende

  3. r and click on it:

  4. Scroll down and find Download under Blender and click on it. If you're on Windows and unsure, just choose the MSI package option.

  5. When the installer finishes downloading, run it.

  6. Follow the prompts to install Blender.

  7. When the installer is finished, run Blender. Click anywhere to close the splash screen.

Blender is now installed and ready to use.