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3D printing with RepRap Cookbook

By : Salinas
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3D printing with RepRap Cookbook

By: Salinas

Overview of this book

A systematic guide consisting of over 100 recipes which focus on helping you understand the process of 3D printing using RepRap machines. The book aims at providing professionals with a series of working recipes to help make their fuzzy notions into real, saleable projects/objects using 3D printing technology. This book is for novice designers and artists who own a RepRap-based 3D printer, have fundamental knowledge of its working, and who desire to gain better mastery of the printing process. For the more experienced user, it will provide a handy visual resource, with side-by-side comparisons of the two most popular slicers, Skeinforge and Slic3r. A basic understanding of designing and modeling principles and elementary knowledge of digital modeling would be a plus.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Index

Appendix B. Taking a Closer Look at G-code

G-code is a numerical control programming language. It's a set of instructions used as a means of controlling automated machines. In this case, it will instruct your 3D printer how to move and how much filament to extrude. It's unlikely that you'll need to examine the G-code that is generated by your slicer. However, knowing a handful of G-code commands can be useful at the command window of your host.