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3D Printing Designs: Design an SD Card Holder

By : Joe Larson
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3D Printing Designs: Design an SD Card Holder

By: Joe Larson

Overview of this book

Want to model a 3D printed prototype of an object that needs to be replaced or broken? This book will teach you how to accurately measure objects in the real world with a few basic measuring techniques and how to create an object for 3D printing around the objects measured. In this book, you'll learn to identify basic shapes from a given object, use Vernier and Digital calipers and grid paper tracing techniques to derive measurements for the objects. With the help of measurements, you'll see to model these objects using Blender, organize the parts into layers, and later combine them to create the desired object, which in this book is a 3D printable SD card holder ring that fits your finger.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Duplicating objects


Blender can duplicate existing objects. This is very useful and can speed up making things. To duplicate an object, follow these steps:

  1. Select the object to be duplicated.

  2. In the 3D menu, choose Object | Duplicate or press Shift + D.

  3. Move the mouse or use the arrow keys to place the duplicate (axis-constraining commands also work at this point).

  4. Press Enter or the select mouse button.